@wntrmute2 if you know who is Peter at SoundSmith in USA, Van Den Hul in Netherlands, Dominic at Northwest Analog in UK then you should know that Axel Schürholz offering nearly the same service, but faster and cheaper in Germany.
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Northwest Analogue - this is what Raul called "premium re-tipper": ------------------------------------ FG tip £325.00 to £375.00 DHC Cantilever and FG Tip £750.00 Ruby Cantilever and FG S Tip £700.00 Coil and suspension repair/adjustment start from £150.00 Coil rewind start from £300.00 EMT Based cartridges, new dampers £300.00 Cantilever straightening if possible starts from £150.00 Complete Rebuilds start from £1500.00. ** £60.00 inspection fee per cartridge but this amount is included on the overall price if further work is carried out. Axel’s prices are different: ------------------------------------ Nude GYGER II diamond stylus and aluminium cantilever EUR. 345 NUDE shibata stylus and BORON cantilever EUR. 495 Nude elliptical diamond and BORON cantilever EUR. 359 Nude elliptical diamond and aluminium cantilever EUR. 225 NUDE shibata stylus and Alu cantilever EUR. 299 Nude ( fine ) line diamond stylus and aluminium cantilever EUR. 199 Hyper elliptical diamond stylus and aluminium cantilever EUR. 199 Shibata diamond and aluminium cantilever EUR. 199 Elliptical diamond stylus and aluminium cantilever EUR. 99 Suspension repair starts from 60 EUR? ** inspection charge is 30 EUR? ------------------------------------ Paratrace stylus on aluminium cantilever £162 Paratrace stylus on sapphire cantilever £180 **can't remember instection charge. P.S. According to the pricelist each of us can decide is that worth to re-tip, repair or rebuild or just buy new or used cartridge. Sometimes it’s better to buy another cartridge, especially when it comes to MM/MI and even for some MC if they are not mega rare. |
@mapman don’t be so naive, replacement stily for rare vintage (discontinued) cartridges cost nearly the same as the whole cartridge+stylus, some of them are impossible to find, maybe you can find cheap styli, but it’s not easy to find NOS ruby, boron, sapphire styli for the best vintage MM cartridges. Even is you will find them you have to make sure the suspension is still alive. The subject of this topic is about Technics EPC-100C, i’ve been looking for replacement stylus for mk3 version of this cartridge for at least 3 years and NEVER seen it for sale anywhere in the world! In this case ONLY re-tippers can help. Another reason is upgrade from simple elliptical stylus to something else (of the new generation like FG stylus profile). |
@travbrow i have owned several technics cartridges rebuilded by Axel with nagaoka boron cantilever, new suspension and nude elliptical tip for 205c mk4 and 100c mk3 cartridges. I can send you some pictures on macro lens if you want to check. In the summer time i sold my 100c mk3 on ebay to a’gon member, but last winter i have shipped this technics 100c mk3 to Axel for inspection to make sure everything is fine (before the sale). I have an invoice from him, he also repaired suspension on my Glanz 71, it was in december 2015. Recently i’ve recommended him to another ebay buyer, who purchaced from me the original 205c mk4 cartridge in perfect condition, Axel will take a look at the suspension for this buyer. Before the sale i have asked Axel by email about suspension repair for technics cartridges. He never said "no", but he must take a look at the cartridge. I got his last email in May 25th,2016 Right now i have one of the rebuilded Technics 205c mk4, Axel did the job more than 4 year ago and it’s still perfect! This rebuilded cartidge belong to my friend and he would like to sell it, because he has two of them and will keep only one. The difference between original and Axel’s rebuilded versions is the structure of the cantilever: new cantilever is shorter and it has a collar, Axel told me it was made by nagaoka and it’s solid rod (not a hollow pipe as the original), elliptical tip is glued (not pressure fitted with hi-end laser techlonogy as on the original). What i have noticed few month ago, when i compared rebuilded version vs. the original version, is much better bass response on the original technics 205c mk4. The highs on Axel’s rebuilded version of 205c mk4 are amazing and even better than on my rebuilded 100c mk3. I’m pretty sure he can rebuild your Technics cartridge if you are up to replace the cantilever. BTW I was so curious about those technics that i have asked Dominic (Northwest Analogue) if he could work on the suspension. In the past Dominic has not been able to resolve this, but he has developed and improved damping material for their own mc cartridges, it might work with the Technics! Dominic can try but there is no guarantee. That’s what they said. |
@nandric first of all i'm talking about rebuild now as the solution which is works great (new nagaoka cantilever and new tip fitted in the original technics plastic holder) and i have tested at least four 205 mk4 and one 100c mk3 rebuilded by Axel. You situation with Axel is clear, no need to repead. If he will refuse the cartridge from my customer then we will get the confirmation about it. But at the present time i have no confirmation and Axel asked me to send him the cartridge in May 2016 to check if suspension repair is possible, i wonder why? To chanrge inspection fee and return it? This is strange, because based on your info he could tell us from the start: "suspension repair is impossible, please don't ask, i can not do that etc". I knew about Andy and what he has done for John Jones, pretty weird, so i will not recommend him to anyone else based on John's experience. But what about Dominic at NorthWest Analogue or Van Den Hul who has done the job for Raul for his P100c mk4 in the past? When the term"suspension refresh" was born in Raul's thread. It's almost impossible to find technics with perfect suspension, but so many people on this forum are happy about p100c mk4, someone fixed suspensions in their carts, how could it be? This is a very strange story. |