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My Cartridge needs a new Stylus


Hi Guys, I need to get my stylus replaced on my Supex cartridge and have a question. At this time the cartridge has a Boron Pipe cantilever, The company I decided to do the rebuild, I read good things about, they cannot do the Boron Pipe but can do an aluminum or a sapphire cantilever. My question is, does anyone know if there would be any or what the difference would be in the sound between the cantilevers.

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swampwalker's avatar
swampwalker
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It will most likely sound different, but unless someone has direct experience, I'm not sure if anyone could predict if it would be an improvement or not.
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thefile OP
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Thank you Swampwalker, I am asking to see if it would be worth the extra money between the aluminum and the sapphire. I am not in a hurry so I will wait for a while and see if anyone had any experience with what I asked.
Thanks Again

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nandric
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I just purchased an old Nakamichi MC 1000 which is recently

(30/03/16 ) re-tipped by Expert Stylus&Certridge Co, with

Paratrace stylus in the existing beryllium cantilever. According

to the bill the re-tip includes examination of the coils  and suspension

as well the removal of magnetic particles around the coil former.

The work is perfectly done but the price was 268 GBP. The boron

pipe is similar to  the beryllium pipe and both are superiour to other

kinds of cantilevers ( see Fleib about cantilevers in the MM

thread).

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thefile OP
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Thank you Nandric,
      That is what I was looking for, to see if it was possible to use my existing Boron pipe. I looked at the tip of the cantilever with a stylus scope and it looks good to me but I am not an expert. After all the years I had the cartridge it was time for a rebuild anyway.
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