The Pass Pub: The High-End Off Topic Thread

I can understand it gets exhausted.

It also wasn't a bad joke, bloke!
Actually, it's cantilever has broken.
It was more than 28 years old.
I remember when I purchased.
Before it I had a red Ortofon MC10.
My son, at that time was about two years old, he played record mat with it, so I must have replaced that red one to a blue one.

Now, I have a Dual DMS-242E with new stylus, but I would like to something better.
 
Get a quote for a cantilever stylus replacement....or get a Denon 103 series. Also - if you can find one - an old Ortofon SPU series or EMT, stripped to minimum, is an excellent MC...your Xono will show just how good. With any of these you will hear real music!

Good Luck.
 
Always found them to be a bit too 'thin and screachy' in the treble. They can be improved a lot by strengthening some of the structure with epoxy resin glue....a bit delicate but worth the effort. [I also had the MC10, the 'Anniversary' model with ceramic body...It was good, but I used it little as I also had ( & still have) a Kondo Audio Note which back then had been re-tipped by the late Kondo. It was so much better that the MC10 had little use....and then it had the cantilever broken. I let the UK version Audio Note have it for repair and never saw it again!!!]

I will look for the details on the epoxy work and post them. It works well for most MC cartridges.
 
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Gyuri,

See the following:

http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/analogue-source/117395-has-anyone-taken-body-off-denon-dl103.html

Especially post No. 44....the green lines show where to apply the epoxy. Make sure to use a 'hard' variety.

Thanks again, it seems to be a littlebit painful for me.
Imagine that, I can survive more than 30 years together with my wife, then I accidentally kill my precious MC cartridge, it is an apoplexy for sure.
I do not want to ended up so misery.