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I second Soundsmith in the USA. Excellent service. I've had my Benz Glider Medium output cartridge rebuilt 3 times (don't ask!). Always with great results.
I second Soundsmith in the USA. Excellent service. I've had my Benz Glider Medium output cartridge rebuilt 3 times (don't ask!). Always with great results.
Speaking of Ferrari, I've had good experience of www.torlai.it in Italy, very close to the Ferrari HQ.
The have re-tipped an Ortofon Rohmann and done major overhaul (diamond, cantilever, damper) on Ortofon SPU and VdH Grasshopper.
Although their site is in italian the do respond to e-mails in english.
BR,
Anders
The have re-tipped an Ortofon Rohmann and done major overhaul (diamond, cantilever, damper) on Ortofon SPU and VdH Grasshopper.
Although their site is in italian the do respond to e-mails in english.
BR,
Anders
Just for the record, I have personally wiped two Dynavector Ruby's without any effort at all. They may be ridged but the crystal may have faults in it. The boron tube on the Koetsu has lasted in service for 34 years. For those of you who think an old Koetsu is just a status symbol, you haven't heard the magic that they can reproduce from a good LP. Not everyone has the same ear, but it is as close to live as I have ever heard.
I have two DV Karat Rubys, their needle is intact, but the coil is broken. I am looking for someone who would repair them cost-effective. If yours have broken stylus and mine have broken coils, we could make a deal and have made 2 good from 4 defect. Just need to find someone who does the job.
Has anyone actually done any business with vencel wrt getting work done?
My contact with him early on indicated the he himself did not do any of the work and he would not let me talk to whomever did... the pix he showed were quite impressive.
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My contact with him early on indicated the he himself did not do any of the work and he would not let me talk to whomever did... the pix he showed were quite impressive.
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If you read all the vencel threads, you come to one conclusion, very very impressive.
So who has experience with vencel?
So who has experience with vencel?
This is no practical use to anybody today as they (and their wives) are both dead now but it is just responding literally to the original post. Back in the 1970's I lived in Melbourne and a 30 minute drive from the Garrott brothers at a suburb called Black Rock. I got a Weinz parabolic on my Stanton 681EEE and another spherical tip on another cartridge. Great service, got to look down their microscope and also a cup of coffee. Subsequently they moved further south and lived on an island in Bass Strait between Victoria and Tasmania. A few years later they moved north to the State of New South Wales. In the 1990's (1991 or 1992, sources disagree) I was very saddened to see in "Hi-Fi News Record Review" that all four had died. Just did a Google search a minute ago and learnt a little more. The HFNRR piece indicated it was suicide but apparently the brothers were twins (as were their wives) and one of the brothers was diagnosed with congenital and inoperable heart failure. They decided to all go out together. Apparently an employee obtained some of the designs and through Audio Dynamics, back in Melbourne, produced cartridges and still continue trading with the Garrott name.
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