2. misc-audio
  3. 179816-20312

Re-tip Ortofon Cadenza Bronze

I got a good deal on a new Ortofon Cadenza Bronze cart., ($1500), and went for it. It sounded great! But now I’m thinking about the time when I’ll have to get it re-tipped. Ortofon wants $950. I’m not rich, especially lately, so this would be pretty painful.

I used to get my last cart re-tipped by Soundsmith, and they always did a lovely job. They’re also significantly cheaper. What I’m wondering is, whether I can, or should, send a cart like this to Soundsmith? Have any of you ever sent a “higher end” cart to Soundsmith for re-tipping? What was your experience? 

EDIT

Apparently, Soundsmith can do actual re-tipping, (as opposed to a rebuild), using the same cantilever. Surely that would be the way to go?

128x128sudont

Showing 1 response by yeti42

yeti42's avatar
yeti42
287 posts
 

Unless you’ve bent the exiting cantilever it’s not now you need to worry about the cost, take good care of your cartridge and  it will have gone up when the time comes anyway.

I have the other current Ortofon with a Replicant 100 stylus on an aluminium cantilever and had to get that rebuilt because I’d messed up setting the bias and after a year of daily use the cantilever wasn’t in line any more, not bent but misaligned.enough to produce intrusive sibilance where it hadn’t existed before. Take care with your bias setting.

More to discover