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Cartridge with broken coil wire
Hello
I have a Miyabi standard that needs repair. There are 2 fine wires that have be broken where they connect to the output pins. I was told not all retippers will be able to resolder these delicate wires. Could anyone suggest a retipper/repairer that can undertake this task?
I am nor sure whether this was a coincidence or not, but this damage was done about a week after i used the degauss function on my Vida phono stage.
I am based in Australia
I have a Miyabi standard that needs repair. There are 2 fine wires that have be broken where they connect to the output pins. I was told not all retippers will be able to resolder these delicate wires. Could anyone suggest a retipper/repairer that can undertake this task?
I am nor sure whether this was a coincidence or not, but this damage was done about a week after i used the degauss function on my Vida phono stage.
I am based in Australia
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Northwest analogue in UK is the only ''retipper'' willing to ''mess'' with the coils. They invented some machine for the coils. However in your case any retipper should be able to (re)solder the wire which are broken ''outside'' of the coil. This means that the (broken) wire is reachable without the need to remove the coils from the so called ''joint pipe''. Northwest site: www.northwestanalogue.com |
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. |
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. |
I don't think Peter, (SoundSmith) does coil repair. I thought these guys do, but now i'm not sure: http://phonocartridgeretipping.com/service-phono.html I've used both and had fantastic luck with each. |
There are different ways to judge about ''sense and nonsense'' of whatever advice in this forum. All will assume some criterion. My will be counting while the involved advice is to not solder the coil wire becausse of (destructive?) influence of ''soldering points'' on the ''pureness'' of the (thiny) signal. We have first 4 coil wire which need to be soldered on the 4 cart connectors. Then the cart need to be connected with 8 soldered clips on the headshell wire (=12). The headshell than need to be connected with 4 soldered connectors on the tonearm wire at the front side and then those 4 wire need to be solded to the (female) Din 5 connector at the opposite side (=20). Then we have the phono-cable with (male) Din 5 connector on one side and, say, two RCA connectors on the other side(=28). We should not count the ground wire nor the soldered input connectors on the amp .side. However the expert from Mexico forget to mention where his advice to get new coils for the Miyabi can be ordered. |
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. |
