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| What Cartridge Manufacturers Will Retip Their Moving Coil Cartridges For A Fee? I have two Lyra Atlas Lambda (SL + Mono) and a DV XV-1s. I am happy for them to get a rebuild. I don't see a need to get a whole new cartridge out of it. A rebuild the way Lyra and DV do it is pretty much the same thing anyway. It costs an arm and... | |
| Clearaudio universal tonearm re-wire. @hiendmmoe @mijostyn is happy to offer his expertise, but he didn’t answer my question about his real-world experience with this arm. His advice is very good if not painfully obvious to most of us doing our own setup. I wonder if he’s touched or... | |
| What Cartridge Manufacturers Will Retip Their Moving Coil Cartridges For A Fee? Lyra rebuild Etna and Altas cartridges. Dynavector rebuild the XV-1s and XV-1t cartridges. They go back to Japan. It's more than a retip. You get all new internals, including dampers/suspension. Only the body and magnets are reused. For both brand... | |
| Clearaudio universal tonearm re-wire. @mijostyn All good advice that I follow anyway. However, I know that my dealer does all those things too, and has broken wires. Once, Musical Surroundings sent me a warranty replacement Universal and when it arrived two of the head shell wires we... | |
| Clearaudio universal tonearm re-wire. I have two Universal arms and those litz wires give me major stress anytime I have to swap a cartridge. I am super careful and have been lucky so far, but I'm interested in solutions if I ever have an issue. I assume repeated cartridge changes wil... | |
| UPS Driver Literally Drops Package with New Hana Umami Red @cbl117 OK, so your dealer drop shipped the cartridge to you. I stand corrected. It’s still not a big deal. Packages get dropped all the time, over the course of transit. It’s up to the shipper to package things appropriately. Most do. | |
| Rockford Fosgate Signature Phono Pre needs repair The Fosgate phono-stage and headphone amp are long discontinued. The Fozgometer is still a current product and was upgraded to a v2 not so long ago. Jim Fosgate died this past December. | |
| Thoughts On Turntable Clamps And Weights What I have will have to do for now. I'm going back to my blissful ignorance where I enjoy music and have nothing to worry about. :) | |
| Rockford Fosgate Signature Phono Pre needs repair I think MS also used an east coast facility for the repair of mine. It came back and worked for about a week before developing the same fault again. That’s when I was refunded. Ended up with a Herron VTPH-2 (upgraded later to 2a) and used that for... | |
| Rockford Fosgate Signature Phono Pre needs repair Try contacting Musical Surroundings. They are the former distributor for the Fosgate Signature. I once had a Signature V2. It ended up with right channel problems that never did get fixed correctly. I ended up getting a full refund from the deale... | |
| Thoughts On Turntable Clamps And Weights @mijostyn OK. I got that one, for a couple bucks. If I put my iPhone on the platter and bang on the isolation platform I get tiny little blips (like small bubbles). If I bang on the rack the isolation platform sits on the tiny blips are even tini... | |
| Thoughts On Turntable Clamps And Weights @mijostyn who's the app publisher? There's more than one fitting your description. The one I got comes up as "Vibration Meter, seismograph": "Measure all vibrations" by ExaMobile S.A. | |
| Thoughts On Turntable Clamps And Weights @mijostyn What app do you use (I am on iPhone) I picked something off the app store, and vibration seems negligible to be. During normal play it says vibrations can only be detected by instruments, and if I bang on the isolation platform with the... | |
| Thoughts On Turntable Clamps And Weights @pindac My wall shelf will be mounted to a plaster on brick wall. I will drill into the brick an fasten the appropriate anchors, readily available form the local hardware store. I have done this before. As an extra measure I also glue the anchors ... | |
| Thoughts On Turntable Clamps And Weights At the moment I have my TT on an isolation platform, and that one will just have to do for now. It may not be a perfect solution, but it's good enough. I listen to a lot of large scale orchestral music and hear plenty of inner detail, and the soun... |