What are the differences ?

First of all having only 300 dollars doesn't give me much options . Even the Hana cost 500 dollars . But 300 to retipped a cartridge that I know sounds great in my system with my turntable is not bad , especially considering I'm getting a line contact stylus with a shappire cantilever with 1 year warranty is I consider a great deal . On MM I have a Nagaoka MP110 which for the price sounds great and a very good Grado MI . The Salsa sounds substantially better then both.

I just received my repaired and retipped Ortofon cartridge from soundsmith and I must say it looks beautiful . The shappire cantilever is smooth as a babys butt and the line contact stylus looks really nice . I'll keep you guys updated on the sound as soon as I install it . SoundSmith seems to do really nice work . 

Just mounted and heard my Ortofon Salsa MC cartridge with new shappire cantilever and line contact stylus by soundsmith and it sounds excellent . These guys do great work and I can whole heartly recommend them . By the way the cartridge sounds better then what it used to . I don't know if this is because of the usage and age of the cartridge or a funtion of the new shappire cantilever ( having been of aluminum ) all I can say is that it sounds better by a margin .