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Benz Ebony L retip

I am looking to get my Benz retipped.  I also wish to keep the original boron cantilever, condition permitting.

I does not appear that Benz offers these services so I am down to van den Hul, Soundsmith, Expert Stylus (UK) and Northwest Analogue (also UK).  Any one have experience with these names and if so:
1) make and model of cart?
2) work done?
3) approximate time taken?
4) level of satisfaction and how close to the original cart sound was the retip.

Thanks
barolobrain

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nandric
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The retip with so called ''cantilever/stylus'' combo seems to be much more easy to do then ''stylus retip only''. The first mentioned method cost twice as much. So many retippers refuse this kind of retip. Even my old friend Axel Schurholz. However I discovered that Expert Stylus does such work with their excelent  ''Paratrace'' stylus. I just retiped my Allaerts MC 2 for 180 GBP.

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nandric
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''esoteric'' and other retip kinds. My Koetsu rosewood signature

was ''refurbished'' by Koetsu for 2000 euro. My Koetsu Blue Sky

which needed only a new stylus got an boron/Shibata combo

by Axel for 500 euro. My Allaerts MC 2 got a new ''Paratrace''

stylus (only) for 180 GBP by Expert stylus. uk . I felt stupid by

the first two and smart by the last one. A kind of Raul's ''learning

curve''.

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