needlestein
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| Refurbished / Re-tipped Cartridges - Are they worth Buying? The topic of the gob of glue surrounding Namiki/Orbray cantilevers and others comes up pretty often. Clients send me “What’s that?????!!!!!” photos with disparaging remarks about retipping rather often, having no idea that the brand new cartridges... | |
| Miracle by Joseph long on Dynavector XX2MKII cartridge Hi, I can finally post again. I had to verify my phone number and address. Dan, you got it mostly right, just some typos. Did you retype the whole thing I wrote? Anyway, yes, the reason I went with a Micro Ridge is because it was alre... | |
| Retip lyra delos and upgrade Just a reminder if you are considering retipping. All manufacturers use cantilevers and diamonds from only four manufacturers. Ogura (the major supplier), Namiki (now Orbray), Gyger and Nagaoka. I am not aware that Nagaoka supplies to any retippe... | |
| Grado Stylus Upgrade Just chiming in because I recently did work on both a Grado Prestige Gold stylus and a recent issue 8MZ stylus. Both have the same diamonds. The 8MZ has a focus on lower mass for better tracking. To that end, the cantilever is slightly narrower... | |
| Teach me about cartridge 'retipping' https://www.resistormag.com/features/groove-tickler-the-needle-and-the-damage-done/ | |
| Replicant 100 stylus “Well Gyger is also an trademark so this explains why ’’Paratrace’’ is different name . Patents are not relevant because expired” This statement is just confusing because you are comparing a company name, Gyger, and a product name, “Paratr... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I know it's true because I have a few of them and have viewed them under the microscope. The next one down is Gyger FG 2. You are right to place "inexpensive" in quotes. The cost of the replacement stylus for the 1042 is well over $400 USD and ... | |
| Replicant 100 stylus www.fgyger.ch | |
| Replicant 100 stylus Perhaps AJ uses both old Gyger and new Paratrace. One doesn’t necessarily mean exclusivity. Wyndham Hodgson told me himself over the phone that he makes van den Hul’s diamonds for him. I don’t have any reason to doubt. Perhaps van den Hul sources ... | |
| Replicant 100 stylus Nandric, Ich spreche auch ziemlich Deutsch. Ich weiss gut die Unterschied zwischen “Wien” und Vienna. But it has nothing to do with the difference between Gyger, van den Hul and Paratrace. You just don’t seem to grasp what I am saying so I am ... | |
| Replicant 100 stylus Nandric, I its very interesting that the ’’small production by GYGER ’’ I never said this. I said they are a small company with a healthy niche. HEALTHY. Gyger supplies diamonds to EMT, Ortofon, ClearAudio (“Trigon”), Allaerts, Goldring, Benz Mi... | |
| Replicant 100 stylus Hi Raul, All I can say about Mr. Allaerts’ claims is that he must use the same diamonds from the few diamond manufacturers that everyone else uses. Without any explanation as to why his diamonds last 20x longer than anyone else’s diamonds there i... | |
| Replicant 100 stylus I’m not going to argue with you. But I will point out a few errors. First of all, if you are going to search the internet for Fritz Gyger AG, you may try spelling his name correctly. www.fgyger.ch Secondly, Gyger is small by revenue sta... | |
| Replicant 100 stylus Hi nandric, The last line of my post says that I buy from Gyger all the time and so can you. They are easily found with a Google search. That’s how I found them. Not sure where the confusion is. Yikes. They aren’t hiding. AJ van den Hul is certa... | |
| Replicant 100 stylus Yikes. There is so much crazy misinformation in this thread that it is scary. A little information is truly dangerous. First of all, Gyger is not out of business. They are a small company that has healthy sales and a niche that will keep them heal... |