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| Cartridge new or used ? No problem buying used. Preference is for them to actually be broken. Broken cantilever, missing stylus. Open coil would not interest me. Off to the retipper once received. | |
| What about diamond cantilever/stylus combo Nandric:I was involved in a group buy of boron/microridge stylus/cantilever assemblies that a dealer on another forum organized earlier this year from Namiki. His initial thought was to pursue a diamond cantilever/stylus option but the volume pric... | |
| JC3+ With Kleos SL? I’m with Catcher. With 90%+ of the systems out there 64 dB will be plenty of gain for a .25 mV cartridge. You could drop to .2 mV and likely have no problem for lack of gain unless you’re running a system with a passive preamp or horribly ineffici... | |
| Denon DP-59L TT - straight arm or s-shaped arm? According to the manual at vinylengine you would either need the medium counterweight (capable of balancing up to 10 grams including mounting hardware) or you would need to add mass to the back of your existing counterweight in the form of washers... | |
| Retip for zyx Don't let him get you down tooblue LOL. I commend you for offering it up. Would be interesting to hear someone's impression of both; that is for sure. | |
| Retip for zyx Lew: If you only have a few hundred hours on that Koetsu I wouldn’t even think of retipping it until you hit 1500-1800 hours. As long as it’s sounding good and the suspension is good just let it do its thing and enjoy it. My guess is that the bass... | |
| Denon DL 103 modifications and re-body questions thread https://www.audioasylum.com/reviews/Phono-Cartridge/Uwe-s-Wood-Body-Denon-103-103R/Ebony-Wood-Body/vinyl/69/694577.html I wrote that review in 2007. Used a Uwe ebony body, a generic aluminum body and another body in clavellin from Uwe. Found the e... | |
| Retip for zyx @lewm Lew: I think your post above (and Jonathan Carr's similar advice from 2013) in retipping with "like for like" is very important. I've retipped 5 different cartridges with two different retippers in the past 6-7 years with 3 different cantile... | |
| Denon DL 103 modifications and re-body questions thread I think you have done the right thing buying the generic. The one I would recommend would still be available at $42 U.S. on ebay. Very slightly different than the one I used in the past but these bodies are all CNC machined and very similar in mas... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... @daveyf I certainly wouldn’t be interested in paying the full retail price for any of the uber cartridges as I don’t feel that they would represent good value for me based on my system and having heard a number of them in a system much better than... | |
| Boron Cantilever and Ruby Cantilever, Why Ruby? Chakster: You are completely missing my point which in this thread is much less about retips in general and more about the two different stylus mounting techniques. You obviously feel the through mount is superior; I am not absolutely convinced. ... | |
| Boron Cantilever and Ruby Cantilever, Why Ruby? Nandric: You have my deepest sympathies; the magic is gone and your life may never be the same ;)I am curious: do you have any comments as to how your Zyx sounds with Axel's boron/shibata compared to the original Zyx cantilever/stylus?Now I am no ... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... Chakster: I am quite aware of everything you stated in your last post with the exception of the unique mounting of the stylus on your Zyx. Unlike you, I’d be quite content to have an aftermarket retipper do the catridge at a significant discount t... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... Chakster: your position on Juki is well known (almost legendary at this stage from being repeated so much here). Anyone capable of doing a google search can come up with lots of information on Juki. He's been selling cartridges and other audio rel... | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD Here’s my (very simplified) take. My apologies if most of what I say has been covered. There are two major factors here contributing to what the OP has found. 1) Zu 103 is not a bad cartridge, but is a poor match with the VPI arm. Assuming proper ... |