Replacement for Lyra Titan i

Dear @jperry : In the case of top LOMC cartridges there are reasons why the best way to fix the damaged cartridge ( retip or whatever. ) is to do it directly to the original designer/manufacturer and not through any after market re-tipper. J.Carr explained ( Lyra. ) time ago about and with other words here are some of those reasons:

first the cartridge fixed will arrives to the owner with the latest overall up-dates, up dates that does not makes for a MK2 version but that are true quality performance improvement levels over the original design. These can't do it for any re-tipper because they can't know those undisclosed up dates.
Other true advantage is that the cartridge owner receives is a in new status condition and was voiced by the manufacturer to shows it at its best. The retipper can't do it. Other is that on top cartridges the parts selection stylus tip /cantilever not only are premium quality but normally are hand selected according the designer and cartridgemodel  needs.

Yes, retippers are a lower price but with many disadvantages and with no single true reason that the fixed cartridge can performs really better than the manufacturer work.

R.

@rauliruegas 

Raul, I agree with you sort of, but not completely.

I have had many cartridges rebuilt by both the original mfr. and by third party retippers 

Having the original mfr do the work preserves the value, and you get some additional assurance that it will be the same as original.

The OP has a no longer in production Lyra cartridge. If rebuilt by Lyra, it will still be worth far less than the original retail, and there is a value judgment to be made by the OP about whether he wants to pay a few thousand dollars for a rebuild.

The OP may  want to, as you suggested, exchange it for a current model with Lyra giving a discount in exchange for his cartridge.

He needs to weigh all of the outcomes along with his pocketbook to make the best decision for himself. In my original post I suggested Lyra or a third party retipper. 

In very few cases does the original mfr have some sort of secret sauce that allows them to refurbish the cartridge in a way that no other can replicate. My EMT JSD75s is an example that a third party could not properly replicate the result achieved by EMT. I had it rebuilt by EMT.

On the other hand my older out of production Shelter 901 I had rebuilt by a third party retipper and the results were great with the cartridge sounding as good as it ever did.

The OP bought a cartridge that sold for $6,000 new retail so I thought he could make his own value judgments about what to do with his cartridge.

Raul, you also have a great deal of experience and so can easily make the best decision for you. It seems appropriate that the OP be given the information he needs to make his decision and with all of this being said by you and I he probably has more than enough information.

Best Regards,

Jim Perry