Cost to Rewire a Tonearm?

chakster, everyone

the tonearm is the one on the right side of photo #8 in my system shown here

https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/9511

It’s the one chakster advised me not to buy.

I dropped it off with Steve and Ray at VAS earlier today. Picked up the Cayin they biased for me. Except for the unprotected wire, they were impressed by it, especially liked the micrometer for VTA.

They showed me a nice VPI junction box to use that will fit inside the dust cover and have a mini connector input/rca out: easily remove the arm. I asked them to paint over the text, change the ugly screws to black allen head. yes, yes, of course.

https://www.vpiindustries.com/store/p254/Junction_Box.html

LOL. Why do you want to rewire your new Russian tonearm? 

Hum.

chakster,

you are reading between the lines, I mean ONLY between the lines, you are missing the book's author's name like I do. this has always been about that damn PITA but otherwise wonderful arm.

Alrighty,

VAS re-wired the tonearm, done in one week. Steve and Ray are wonderful to know and work with.

https://vasnyinc.com/

VAS also provided and installed a new VPI 4 pin mini-connector and RCA Junction Box, and a separate tonearm ground wire.

https://www.vpiindustries.com/store/p254/Junction_Box.html

Total, including the new junction box: $435.

What wire? The one Steve uses for all tonearms he re-wires (I didn’t ask about customer specified wire).
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Square Trade approved the repair cost and is mailing me a check. Thank goodness I bought a 3 year warranty for $110. when I bought the arm from Russia. I knew it was a risk.
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Luckily VAS is only 35 minutes from me, so I left it on the removable tonearm board, drove it to them, they worked without changing my VTA height .... Board right back in, re-align the cartridge, listen!

They stopped by yesterday to have a listen and peek at my 3 systems and totally trashed garage with the inherited LPs.

Hum was caused by insulation being worn off at the silk covered Litz wires at the point of exit from the gimbal and thru a sharp edged hole in the base. A design flaw, solved by VAS, and by newartvinyl on their new 5 pin din model.

http://newartvinyl.ru/board/detali_proigryvatelja/tonarm_black_bird12_5_5pin/7-1-0-53
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