Cartridge with broken coil wire

Dear @leicachamp : The @mofimadness is a good option and here you can see that this re-tipper can re-coil, as a fact you can see a picture on a Koetsu recoil job:
http://www.northwestanalogue.com/cartridge-repairs.html

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.

Dear @tooblue : Degaussin a LOMC cartridge always is a risk because the coil wires are tinner than a human been hair.

Degaussin can burn in the coil wire. Sometimes happens and sometimes not depending on the degaussin intensity. Seems to me that the OP degausser is not a safe one and I think he can make a claim to the Vida manufacturer because that item was the culprit. Maybe that function in that Vida phono stage sample is working bad, any way it's a manufacturer responsability and he must pay for the @op cartridge damage.

Best is not use degaussin with LOMC cartridges, at least not with that phono stage.


Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.

Dear @leicachamp:  It's not convenient to re-solder if those ones are the coil wires that needs ( is a must to. ) to go direct solder it to the output pins with no additional junction in between.

Any single additional junction in the coil wires makes a very high degradation to the critical and sensitive audio signal. The coil wires is the worst place to make something as you and other suggested.

The Miyabi level deserves a full re-coil, at least that's what I will do if I were you.

If you don't care to much on the cartridge quality performance levels then you can send to re-solder it.

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.