Dear Mapman, ''Please correct me if I am wrong''. This is your own request. However you ''confessed'' to have never done any re-tip. This means that your opinion is based on pure speculation. The usual re-tip consist of glueing the already made cantilever/stylus combo by the producer into the so called ''joint pipe'' on which also the coils and suspension are fastened. For an aluminum cantilever with elliptical stylus one need to pay about 100 euro. The more exotic cantilevers and styli cost more . By the MM carts the mentioned combo is glued on the remains of the original cantilever. This kind of retip I have done just once. Finding (replaceable) stylus is , in my opinion, better option. My MC carts I have done more than 20. Our former member Dertonarm retipped his FR-7fz cart 4 times in Japan. Depending on the price which one has paid for the cart one will decide if' and what kind of retip one should chose. BTW those ''re-tippers'' are much more cheaper than the manufacturer. I own one Koetsu Rosewood which is ''refurbished'' by Koetsu for 2200 euro by the former owner . My most expensive retip (by Axel) was 500 euro. |
Northwest Analogue - this is what Raul called "premium re-tipper": ------------------------------------ FG tip £325.00 to £375.00 DHC Cantilever and FG Tip £750.00 Ruby Cantilever and FG S Tip £700.00 Coil and suspension repair/adjustment start from £150.00 Coil rewind start from £300.00 EMT Based cartridges, new dampers £300.00 Cantilever straightening if possible starts from £150.00 Complete Rebuilds start from £1500.00. ** £60.00 inspection fee per cartridge but this amount is included on the overall price if further work is carried out. Axel’s prices are different: ------------------------------------ Nude GYGER II diamond stylus and aluminium cantilever EUR. 345 NUDE shibata stylus and BORON cantilever EUR. 495 Nude elliptical diamond and BORON cantilever EUR. 359 Nude elliptical diamond and aluminium cantilever EUR. 225 NUDE shibata stylus and Alu cantilever EUR. 299 Nude ( fine ) line diamond stylus and aluminium cantilever EUR. 199 Hyper elliptical diamond stylus and aluminium cantilever EUR. 199 Shibata diamond and aluminium cantilever EUR. 199 Elliptical diamond stylus and aluminium cantilever EUR. 99 Suspension repair starts from 60 EUR? ** inspection charge is 30 EUR? ------------------------------------ Paratrace stylus on aluminium cantilever £162 Paratrace stylus on sapphire cantilever £180 **can't remember instection charge. P.S. According to the pricelist each of us can decide is that worth to re-tip, repair or rebuild or just buy new or used cartridge. Sometimes it’s better to buy another cartridge, especially when it comes to MM/MI and even for some MC if they are not mega rare. |
@mapman don’t be so naive, replacement stily for rare vintage (discontinued) cartridges cost nearly the same as the whole cartridge+stylus, some of them are impossible to find, maybe you can find cheap styli, but it’s not easy to find NOS ruby, boron, sapphire styli for the best vintage MM cartridges. Even is you will find them you have to make sure the suspension is still alive. The subject of this topic is about Technics EPC-100C, i’ve been looking for replacement stylus for mk3 version of this cartridge for at least 3 years and NEVER seen it for sale anywhere in the world! In this case ONLY re-tippers can help. Another reason is upgrade from simple elliptical stylus to something else (of the new generation like FG stylus profile). |
