@needlestein : About the glue usend to fix the stylus tip you are rigth too but that seller likes to intimidates/distress to the audiophiles with his photos that at the end means nothing.
I had some first hand experiences with top vintage and today cartridges where with out notice one day when the cartridge hits the LP surface we note that something is wrong and what is wrong is that the stylus tip is not " there " any more and we try to find out in the LP surface or around there but we can't see it.
This kind of experience was once with a top Audio Technica LOMC that's a manufacturer I respect a lot and I owned/own almost all its vintage and today MM/LOMC models including the great Signet ones that's is part of the AT group.
Other experience about that comes to my mind happened in the top room/system of an Agoner and reviewer that lives in Houston when I was there for the firts time and he had mounted in his Rockport TT a Lyra Titan top of the line cartridge: when the cartridge been in touch with the LP surface both of us knew something was terrible wrong and he had no explanation about because he was listened the last nigth his system and everything were fine but " today " the problem was that the stylus tip just " gone " and we are talking of a new Lyra Titan.
I remember too that when I bougth my first Ortofon LOMC MC-2000 after less than 60 play hours one day the stylus tip just take a " fligth ".
Not many years ago when Ortofon ( by coincidence . ) puts in the market its Anna cartridge some owners had that kind of stylus tip " disappears act ".
In all those cases there were no mishandling of the cartridges, just happens.
I think that when a cartridge is/was a good performer no re-tipper can makes its sounds bad or with lower quality performance levels that when in original shape.
@jjss49 your re-tipping experiences were very good and in this thread there is no single post where one audiophile said the re-tipped cartridge sounds in poor way . All experiences are good experiences.
Now, a re-tipping job is made by a human been and no one is perfect and around of thousands of thousands re-tipped cartridges that a re-tipper did it could exist a very few that more than by " accident " than for negligence could performs not in the way we are waiting for and it's ok because no one is perfect. So, we can wait that in absolute terms never could happens a " mistake ".
The name of the game is re-tipping or buy a new today cartridge and don't take in count those sellers that want to take money from you and that try to intimidates you against re-tipping job because the origianl sounds better because this is a totally false myth.
You don't have to believe me, just try and have first hand experiences with re-tipping and you will confirm is a very good alternative.
R..
I had some first hand experiences with top vintage and today cartridges where with out notice one day when the cartridge hits the LP surface we note that something is wrong and what is wrong is that the stylus tip is not " there " any more and we try to find out in the LP surface or around there but we can't see it.
This kind of experience was once with a top Audio Technica LOMC that's a manufacturer I respect a lot and I owned/own almost all its vintage and today MM/LOMC models including the great Signet ones that's is part of the AT group.
Other experience about that comes to my mind happened in the top room/system of an Agoner and reviewer that lives in Houston when I was there for the firts time and he had mounted in his Rockport TT a Lyra Titan top of the line cartridge: when the cartridge been in touch with the LP surface both of us knew something was terrible wrong and he had no explanation about because he was listened the last nigth his system and everything were fine but " today " the problem was that the stylus tip just " gone " and we are talking of a new Lyra Titan.
I remember too that when I bougth my first Ortofon LOMC MC-2000 after less than 60 play hours one day the stylus tip just take a " fligth ".
Not many years ago when Ortofon ( by coincidence . ) puts in the market its Anna cartridge some owners had that kind of stylus tip " disappears act ".
In all those cases there were no mishandling of the cartridges, just happens.
I think that when a cartridge is/was a good performer no re-tipper can makes its sounds bad or with lower quality performance levels that when in original shape.
@jjss49 your re-tipping experiences were very good and in this thread there is no single post where one audiophile said the re-tipped cartridge sounds in poor way . All experiences are good experiences.
Now, a re-tipping job is made by a human been and no one is perfect and around of thousands of thousands re-tipped cartridges that a re-tipper did it could exist a very few that more than by " accident " than for negligence could performs not in the way we are waiting for and it's ok because no one is perfect. So, we can wait that in absolute terms never could happens a " mistake ".
The name of the game is re-tipping or buy a new today cartridge and don't take in count those sellers that want to take money from you and that try to intimidates you against re-tipping job because the origianl sounds better because this is a totally false myth.
You don't have to believe me, just try and have first hand experiences with re-tipping and you will confirm is a very good alternative.
R..