daveyf
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| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... Nobody have any experience buying high end cartridges, like Koetsu, from vendors on Ebay in Japan, or elsewhere? | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... @boxer12. You have stated enough, now I am certain of your expertise.@nrenterI totally understand that once you try a cartridge it is considered used, which is exactly one of the problems that we are discussing.However, I am questioning whether or... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... @boxer12. You are telling us that you know what these diamonds look like when they are worn by looking at Google examples...??For example, a worn out Micro ridge stylus has what damage to the facet and at what angle? I may sound condescending here... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... Ok my turn, lol...boxer12Please do tell us what a worn Shibata stylus looks like, or a worn micro ridge, or worn line contact, or even a worn out elliptical. I’m not saying you don’t know what they look like when they are worn, as I am certainly h... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... @boxer12. Ok, so maybe you can answer me this....how do you know that the stylus on the old cartridge with unknown amounts of usage, is not worn out?( to the point of doing damage on the first play). Taking the cartridge to a ‘professional’ has no... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... @chakster You are still not understanding this point...many people, including myself are not going to purchase a used cartridge..Simple reason, you have no way of truly knowing how many hours that cartridge has on it. Plus, who knows how the rest... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... @papafrgog. +1Add to that as you increase the budget, the more it becomes not just frustrating, but also economically more untenable. Not saying that plenty of folks don’t have any issues with the economics, but I happen to know of more than a few... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... You really have no idea about what I am concerned about, do you? Please re-read my OP, and attempt to understand why the current high priced cartridge buying status quo isn’t, at least imho, a very palatable scenario for the high end cartridge con... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... @handymann An excellent question! One that I would like to see answered as well. Interesting data point. We have several vendors on eBay in Japan selling Koetsu's, as an example. NONE of them have ANY feedback from buyers about their Koetsu buyi... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... Reflecting on this a little more, there certainly is a dealer in China, who is active on this forum, selling Benz cartridges, among others, at excellent pricing. However, he is not an authorized dealer for these brands. As a grey market vendor, I ... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... Interesting, I believe I spoke to John. Since it would appear that these guys are no longer the US representatives, I wonder why they lead me ...and my dealer friend,to believe the company was no more. Since I had a deal with my dealer to acquire ... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... @jperry Like I stated above, my Benz dealer and the US distributor...Musical Surroundings. Do you know something that would contradict that? | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... @tatyana69.Please do tell us how your Benz is going to be serviced now that Benz has gone? By Soundsmith??? Sure, that is ’if’ you want a totally different SQ...IME, re-tips by aftermarket vendors never end up giving the same result as a re-build ... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... @ghn5ue You bring up an interesting point. I was hoping that Benz was still supplying cartridges, and had actually made a deal to a acquire the LPS MR from one of my local dealers. He called me and told me the situation, which lead me to cancel ... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? @lewm The next time you are in Japan, give these guys a visit, and then get back to us: http://analog.ev.shopserve.jp |