Third Party Services - Phono Cartridge - Retip - Refurbish - Rebuild Services.

Dear friends: In this forum thread ( 6 pages ) are almost all retippesr/services for phono cartridges that includes Joseph Long that's excellent and as I said in other thread he makes recoil as Northwest and a few others:

 

Cartridge Repairs, Retipping and Replacement Styli Suppliers. A list! (theartofsound.net)

 

I forgot this is JL: cartridge_retipping@outlook.com  860-338 0153

 

Regards and ENJOY THE MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,

R 

A consolidated list will be a useful reference as time goes by.

It will be good to learn how certain Services has helped and what work has been undertaken when receiving a Donor Cart'.

I once indirectly helped a Transfiguration Proteus owner have a Coil Rewind on a Cart' they were selling for a very fair price as non-working model. Instead of finalising the purchase and having a attractive Donor Cart'. I made it known to the vendor, where there may be assistance with a remediation.

All's well that ends well, the Cart' owner for a very fair repair/shipping price, received a working Cart and were very outwardly greatful for the support on offer. The usual story was told, the Cart' as a refurbishment was seemingly performing better that any recollection if it during a previous use could muster.

Isn’t it best to list services with which one has had a personal experience?

@pindac - thanks for starting this thread

There should be a Category just for "Services" where we could post useful threads such as this one

Perhaps monitored by audiogon to prevent comanies from posting ads

Great work !👍

Another Service shown in the Link, stating a Year Long Warranty is offered as part of the works undertaken.

https://www.sensitivesound.com/

I have found the link for Torlai. 

I have never discussed guarantee for works undertaken, I have my own approach I used to set up a refurbishment on a Donor Cart'.

Torlai is making a statement that works carried out are guaranteed for 12 Months.

http://www.torlai.it/

The following List is quite widespread, showing Services available in different Countries.

https://vasnyinc.com/repair-service/

https://holisticaudio.nl/

https://www.allclearaudio.com/

 

https://www.resistormag.com/features/groove-tickler-the-needle-and-the-damage-done/

 

https://www.ulber-audio.de/

 

https://www.tonepublications.com/analogaholic/ana-mighty-sound/

 

https://techne-audio.de/angebote/Retipping-Service.html

 

rgu2002@inbox.ru

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/stylus-retipping-service-phono-cartridge-specialist-from-russia-moscow.686418/

(Delta667 ) delta-3@mail.ru (Vinyl Engine Cartridge Rebuild Service)

https://www.tonabnehmerservice.de/

 

http://thomas-schick.com/produkte/retip-2

 

https://www.schallplattennadeln.de/

 

http://www.phonocartridgeretipping.com/contact.html

 

http://www.goldring.co.uk/repair-and-refurbishment.htm

 

http://www.nadelspezialist.de/

 

http://garrottbrothers.com/repairs-retipping

 

http://www.78tours.com/Expert_Stylus_Company.htm

 

http://www.schallplattennadeln.de/

 

http://www.sound-smith.com/

 

https://www.northwestanalogue.com/cartridge-repairs.html

 

http://www.vandenhul.com/products/phono

Torloi, based in Italy also will supply/fit a FGS Styli, their contact is not discovered.

 

The following will show off the shelf Armature/Styli assemblies.

https://orbray.com/en/product/jewel/product/onlineshop_record.html

 

 

Expert Stylus in UK. Retipped my Koetsu Urushi while retaining the OEM cantilever. Very professional at every step. Results are superb, possibly better than ever. Cost very reasonable. 3 weeks including shipping in both directions. I live on East coast US. Thanks to Raul for the recommendation.

Steve & Ray Leung at VAS and the folks at Soundsmith.

Another vote for Kilian Bakker in the Netherlands. He repaired several of my cartridges - even some obscure ones - and his knowledge and expertise are second to none. He did FR-7f, Audiocraft AC-03 Mono, Shelter 701 and Harmony and Ortofon MC Rohmann. But he doesn’t do everything. At some point one channel of my Krell KC-200 gave up, caused by a broken coil wire. He wouldn’t repair it as this would fundamentally alter the sound of Takeda’s original design. This is a judgment call that I can respect and agree with.

However I didn’t want to give up on this cartridge, which had already been retipped by a previous owner using a non original boron cantilever. Retaining the ’original’ sound was not my objective anyway as I have several other Takeda / Miyabi cartridges still in original condition. So I decided to sent the cartridge to Dominic Harper of northwest analogue in the UK; https://northwestanalogue.com/ He was able to rewire the coils using 6N copper wire of similar gauge while keeping the original rubber suspension intact (supposedly Takeda’s ’secret sauce’) and fitted a Gyger FG tip on the existing boron cantilever. While the final result is what is often referred to as a "Frankenstein", the sound is just amazing. Obviously different from the Miyabi sound, but very convincing in its own right. Can’t give enough praise for the work he has done.

https://phonocartridgeretipping.com/

Andy Kim - Shelter 901/Sumiko Pearwood/EMT various