Cartridge replacment time

@helomech 

it’s impossible to beat the Shure M97xe and Jico SAS combo for a MM in that price range.

It's pretty easy to beat that cartridge even if your replacement Jico SAS. The SAS is Micro Ridge, the cnatilever is Boron for an old SAS and Ruby or Sapphire for a Neo SAS. 

There are many more original MM cartridges utilized same kind of cantilevers and diamonds like Fine Line, Stereohedron, Micro Line, Shibata, Line Contact, Parabolic etc 

One of them is Glanz MFG-610LX is on ebay from the Japanese seller who's got a NOS stock of them. They are about $420 with FREE shipping worldwide. It's a Moving Flux cartridge made by Mitachi Corporation in Japan. Everyone should grab them before it's too late! They are brand new (unused). Look at the diamond and cantilever here

@helomech audiogon members already bought several samples from that seller and you can find their posts here.

Averyone can return any item for full refund if they bought it on ebay, the risk is return shipping only.

I can say that only one of my 3 Glans had the issue with damper and that was another model.

If you wish to buy such amazing cartridge for $200 in 2018 the seller must be crazy to ask such a low price

In my opinion this model should cost at least $800, but he ask only $420 including shipping. It's great deal!