The "Broken Blue Point Special Club"

Wow... old thread, but add me to the list... I was just rediscovering my 15 yr old BPS, and unknowingly snagged it with a cleaning rag today.  I have 2 more expensive carts, but they are lower output, and I was quite enjoying this totally hiss free Hi Output MC.  I'm beside myself on buying another similar Sumiko......   

Some topics are simply timeless.

Keep those dust rags, unbuttoned long sleeves and 2+ drink hands away from the table!

We still have plenty of time to go thru our collection. Dear leader and your local government may have different plans though?

I'm having a fabulous time revisiting everyone from Vivaldi to ZZ Top.

Breakage can only improve the sound of that little screecher...

If I could find my BPS, I’d break it. But I can’t be bothered to look for it, even with nothing else to do.

Quite a few years ago I was able to buy 3 or 4 BPS with missing cantilevers. I sent them off to Andy Kim for retip, and he used a higher quality cantilever and diamond than what was OEM. The end result was a very good cartridge for not a lot of money. I sent them off to other owners, and everyone enjoyed them immensely. 

I suspect that the current BPS EVO is really the same generator as the Blackbird. Get one retipped with a boron cantilever, and a LC stylus and you will have a improved version of the Blackbird. Just my own guess of course, got no proof of this.