Would you use an Ortofon A90 on a Jelco tonearm?

Hi Pani, As ''involved party'' I am reluctant to react at your post.

However I am well informed about ''retips'' because Axel Schurholz

is my good friend such that I know what their problem is. First of

all all cart producers get their cantilever/styli combo's from their

supplier. Except Van den Hul who also owns an retip service nobody

else does retip work. Anyway not the ''stylus only'' retip. This work

can only be done by specialist with long experience. So there are

only few which are willing to do this work. Retipping the whole

cantilever/stylus combo is much easier to do because the new

combo is ''simply'' glued on the se called ''joint pipe'' on which the

coils and suspension are (also) fastened. The problem by retip

services is the availability of ''parts''. In particular boron cantilevers

and micro ridge styli. So in your case you need to search for a

retip service which offers both. Axel was not able to get other

than Shibata styli , had more work than he could manage, so I

investigated for him in Japan by two big jewel companies there.

Neither ever answered my questions while J. Carr whom I

asked for help warned me that those comapny are not, say,

very helpful with styli.

Because Axel retired I searched for one other retip service and

found ''Expert stylus'' in UK. They do ''stylus alone'' retip with

their own stylus called '' Paratrace'' which is similar to micro ridge.

This work is done by their engineer with 40 years experience.

Fantastic work for only 180 GBP. My Nakamichi MC 1000 with

beryllium cantilever got a new stylus by them. I bought this cart

despite the broken stylus and posted to Expert stylus as

an trial . Elsewhere I mentiond my carts and their ''ranking'' in the

 context of Inna's new thread about MM carts.