can anyone recommend a person in LA area to pay to install a tricky Koetsu cartridge


Hi,

Assuming social distancing and stay at home order not violated, can anyone recommend a person in Los Angeles area that can be hired to install a Koetsu Rosewood Signature Platinum cartridge which I understand is a bit harder than most cartridges to install. I have a person or two but they are not currently available.


karmapolice

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I should add that many good options here if bring tt to a retail store but am looking for home cartridge setup.
I appreciate all the encouragement to do myself but am not inclined to do so with such a pricey cartridge.  This is especially true here where my turntable add a layer of difficult in that the Townshend Rock 7 has a trough with oil that the tip of the arm sits in.  The arm is a helius omega arm that is frequently used with the townshend rock 7.  The helius and rock 7 distributor has used this combo before but not sure with a koetsu.  He believes the arm is very compatible with the koetsu cartridge but because of the pandemic is not doing housecalls for the foreseeable future.
thanks for all the information I am psyched to hear the Koetsu.

I found a guy David locally who has done lot of cart setups for a local hifi shop though not my arm or cartridge or TT.....I do have the manual for the helius arm and the only trick with the TT is that the arm has to travel through the trough smoothly not hitting the bottom or the sides.  If all goes well will get it installed next week.  I will try to have my usual guy avail telephonically (as he especially needs to remain in quarantine because of health issue) if a question arises.  Unfortunately the helius is not VTA on the fly...need loosen a set screw but in a way perhaps better because this way I am not less inclined to fuss with it once I am happy with the sound.  
small world I did reach out to Audio Element but for the foreseeable future they will only do in store cartridge install.

I plan to be involved in the set up so I can understand it so that I can tweak it if necessary........
Thanks for all the good ideas....was a bear to get done today and david swore mightily how much a pain the koetsu the helius arm and rock 7 combo was to install together.....

Sounds great though 😁