Sound-Smith retipping


Recently broke the cantilever on my Dynavector 17D3, although still think cat did it!

Anyone else have experience retipping a 17D3? After researching a few options I ended up contacting and then sending to Sound-Smith.

Don’t understand some negative feedback I’d seen in terms of time and quality. Service was personal, fast (back in 3 weeks from sending out) and best of all sound I feel is improved especially the low end - I went with their Boron Cantilever with nude contact line and the work was done by David Moskowitz. Clearly a great deal of attention was paid taking into account the short cantilever of the original.






uthlidian
chakster
... when it comes to cartridges he is the one ...
No, @chakster he is not "the one." There is a staff there that works on cartridges. I’ve been to Soundsmith - it’s a very impressive place.
I suspect PL is the QC guy, the final arbiter. He as much as told me he discovered and repaired the issue with my Ruby re-tip, when I returned it to SS.
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Although Peter may perform a QC function on the work of those he employs, he also does the work himself. My Airtight Supreme was tired, cantilever somewhat canted and presumably the stylus was worn. It took Peter a while to get to it, but when he did, he called over a weekend with the cartridge on his bench, told me his findings, and then replaced only the stylus while retaining the factory cantilever after readjusting it.