Sony PUA 7 to re-wire or not

@noneggativwhere did you find the TB2000 - it's even harder to find than a good TTS8000. I have to make my own plinth that's gonna feature quite a few nice design touches.

I've always sought to find my audio doppelgänger - there's not many other people on the forums that have a Helius arms - the people I know with them tend to have the cyalene on a voyd TT and tend to be from the UK - where are you?

On another note the only person i could find in the UK to work on the PUA 7 can only start in around November.

lohanimal@ I found the TB-2000 plinth on yahoo Japan together with a very nice TTS-8000. Allthough quite expensive I thought I had made the deal of my life since the TB-2000 are so rare (rumour says only 150 were ever made). The price of shipping 40 kg. Plinth & Turntable safely to Denmark (together with customs, tax etc) has made me reconsider the whole deal as "Deal of my life" - at least from an economical view ;-)

I have enjoyed another TTS-8000 in the smaller "Resinamic Sound" plinth for a about a year, which has convinced me that TTS-8000 will be my final table (comes from Garrard 401 & The Voyd).

The "new" TTS-8000 is now being restored at "good old hifi" in Berlin. They are Vintage Sony experts (and fans) and I don’t want to worry about old caps etc. when the project is finished.

My Helius Omega is great with a Lyra Delos, but not as good with my other cart (Benz Ruby Z). I keep dreaming about upgrading it to a Benz LP-S, and need to find a second tonearm which matches sound- and quality wise.

Having an audio doppelgänger is good - together with all the wise experts in here.

@chakster 

I appreciate that - I correct one thing though - the Sony Ps-x9 had a PUA 9 arm, not the PUA 7 - it's a longer arm.

Mine is without doubt one lifted from another deck and sold to me on the premise that it was a PUA-7. All said and done I'm not losing too much sleep over it because it is one of two arms that are going to go onto my Sony tts 8000 and apart from anything else I am going to experiment with a Townshend Rock 3 trough (made in plastic so it can be cut so as to fit the lip around the TTs 8000 platter - the trough tends to take the arm very much out of the sonic equation and just allows the cartridge to sing.