I am surprised that Chakster did not point this out, but if the stylus originally was a spherical one, then for about the cost of a new replacement you can have sound smith upgrade the cartridge with a more advanced stylus tip and possibly a sapphire cantilever for about the same cost . Or even a little less than replacement cost.. It does seem you will probably need a new cantilever and a stylus, but I don’t see in my experience where that affects cost very much. Most cartridge repair businesses is routinely replace both the cantilever and the stylus when rebuilding a cartridge. It’s your call.
Family Problems...
My last post here was about how to keep my baby away from my Magnepans, but it seems I had my eye on the wrong person in my home! I stupidly let my wife take over turntable duties for an evening while I was busy in my office only to come home to a broken cartridge. I believe she literally dropped the needle on the record and part of it broke. So now I seek the wise advice of the internets on what to do. But first more details...
It's a 6-month old Denon DL301-mk2 and I was quite happy with it prior to it breaking. I know there are re-tipping services that might be able to fix it. It looks like material at the pivot of the cantilever that fixes it in place has separated from the rest of the cartridge. Think it's worth repairing or would scrapping it be the route you'd go? Again, I was quite happy with it before and I'm not particularly interested in experimenting with similarly priced cartridges at this point.
It's a 6-month old Denon DL301-mk2 and I was quite happy with it prior to it breaking. I know there are re-tipping services that might be able to fix it. It looks like material at the pivot of the cantilever that fixes it in place has separated from the rest of the cartridge. Think it's worth repairing or would scrapping it be the route you'd go? Again, I was quite happy with it before and I'm not particularly interested in experimenting with similarly priced cartridges at this point.