Cartridge with broken coil wire

Dear @leicachamp:  It's not convenient to re-solder if those ones are the coil wires that needs ( is a must to. ) to go direct solder it to the output pins with no additional junction in between.

Any single additional junction in the coil wires makes a very high degradation to the critical and sensitive audio signal. The coil wires is the worst place to make something as you and other suggested.

The Miyabi level deserves a full re-coil, at least that's what I will do if I were you.

If you don't care to much on the cartridge quality performance levels then you can send to re-solder it.

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.

I was hoping somebody would address the OPs thoughts that the degaussing function of his Vida phono stage could have contributed to the problem. Is this at all possible? If so please explain.

Soundsmith would be my first call. I also have a Mayabi Standard and what a special cart it is.

Miyabi

Dear @tooblue : Degaussin a LOMC cartridge always is a risk because the coil wires are tinner than a human been hair.

Degaussin can burn in the coil wire. Sometimes happens and sometimes not depending on the degaussin intensity. Seems to me that the OP degausser is not a safe one and I think he can make a claim to the Vida manufacturer because that item was the culprit. Maybe that function in that Vida phono stage sample is working bad, any way it's a manufacturer responsability and he must pay for the @op cartridge damage.

Best is not use degaussin with LOMC cartridges, at least not with that phono stage.


Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.