I am offering a rather special re-tipped Miyajima Shilabe cartridge.The upgrade was done last year by Andy at Needle Clinic in the US (600USD). He fitted a sapphire cantilever and a micro-ridge diamond stylus which is thought to be more rigid than the original aluminium cantilever and Shibata stylus. Special care has been taken when inserting the new cantilever to ensure a tight fit to the original oversized aluminium stem. Suspension has been readjusted to allow a lower tracking force. The cartridge has only played a couple of records since returned to verify that everything is fine. The only issue I should report is a slightly misaligned cantilever, i.e. the cantilever is not perfectly centred with the middle mark on the body. It came like that and is hardly visible as the body is round. I have been reassured that this does not affect performance as long as the stylus and the cantilever is aligned with respect to the record groove (as it should be done anyways). The proof is that the cartridge has a much improved tracking ability than when it was new. Output level is the same in both channels. The cartridge comes with the original packaging and mounting tools minus the plastic stylus cover.
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