Soundsmith retips

I have had my XV-1s re-tipped by Soundsmith and I'd do it again in a hearbeat. Peter does excellent work.

I don't think you will get changes in tone from a re-tip, but you will get a good bump in resolution if you go with their line-contact stylus.

The only downside I know of is that the lead times have grown a bit over the last year. That is the sign of good results.

Thanks much for the responses! Very good as usual.

I'm glad to hear you were satisfied Dan ed. I have an aging 90x that I might want to try this with. It seems a small price to pay compared to the cost of another new cartridge. It's just hard to know exactly when a cartridge is ready for a retip.

Dear Headsnappin: First rate.

Now I ussualy send to retip a cartridge and ask to fix it with a cantilever/stylus similar or near similar to the original, if that is possible I try to preserve the cartridge original signature but other people think in a different way.

Regards and enjoy the music.
raul.

I've been very pleased by Soundsmith's work, most recently on a Denon DL-103, earlier on a Grado The Reference. A friend's Koetsu Rosewood was also very impressive. The Denon sounds much better than I remember, and the Grado sounded very much like it did before. My most recent retip took 3 months to the day, so bear in mind the increasing timeframe. Dave