Sound-Smith retipping


Recently broke the cantilever on my Dynavector 17D3, although still think cat did it!

Anyone else have experience retipping a 17D3? After researching a few options I ended up contacting and then sending to Sound-Smith.

Don’t understand some negative feedback I’d seen in terms of time and quality. Service was personal, fast (back in 3 weeks from sending out) and best of all sound I feel is improved especially the low end - I went with their Boron Cantilever with nude contact line and the work was done by David Moskowitz. Clearly a great deal of attention was paid taking into account the short cantilever of the original.






uthlidian
I would think it is a given that when you replace a truncated diamond cantilever and stylus with a boron cantilever, even regardless of the new stylus’ shape, the sound is going to be different. But it might be great. It might even be better than the original. It just isn’t the original any longer.
Whatever, but who is David Moskowitz ? 
Peter Ledermann did not touch this cartridge. 
There was a guy several weeks back that received a seriously botched repair from them.  He said they refused to make it right but did so after he escalated to Peter.  Purportedly they refunded the repair in full be he’s SOL on the cartridge which was permanently damaged.   Thread is on diyAudio.  
chakster
... who is David Moskowitz ?
Peter Ledermann did not touch this cartridge.
Soundsmith is not a one-person shop. Not even close.