I've found that you CAN bring some carts back from the dead. Had some Sonus stylus assemblies in a junk drawer for at least 25 years and tried them on a Sonus body I found on bay. Dead like mackeral. Figured I had nothing to lose by slathering some "Re-Grip," usually used on the rubber parts of a reel-to-reel deck, on the rubber suspensions of the styli. After playing half a dozen LPs, the Sonus really started to sing. Now it has pride-of-place on my Lenco/SME IIIs setup. Good luck, Dave
Lack of vinyl bass and midrange
I have a SOTA Star Saphire turntable with ET-2 arm and Monster Alpha Genesis 1000 cartridge that I have reinserted into my system after years of disuse. Problem is the sound is anemic with lack of bass and midrange compared to CD. I have a McCormick Micro phono stage with 100 ohm load. When I last had this turntable in my system it sounded great. Any ideas as to the source of this problem would be greatly appreciated.