Soundsmith retips

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

I had a Black retipped and I personally don't notice a difference in sound. I would definitely go back again.

Be aware that if the stylus is merely worn out, rather than the cantilever snapped, Peter replaces only the stylus itself. He feels that removing the cantilever might compromise the suspension.

I thought about snipping off the cantilever of my 901 with diagonal cutters so he'd replace it with a ruby one, but didn't.