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I don't think he did? He did repair one of the cantilevers by putting a fine wire up the cantilever of a MMC5 and glueing it - seemed quite a lot of work for a MMC5 to be honest! You cannot really get at the suspension otherwise as the Micro-Cross needs to come out. Anthony had some personal problems I believe and stopped working some years ago. A shame as i enjoyed his Beomuse site. Some of the articles can be found on the excellent Beocentral site.
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I don't think he did? He did repair one of the cantilevers by putting a fine wire up the cantilever of a MMC5 and glueing it - seemed quite a lot of work for a MMC5 to be honest! You cannot really get at the suspension otherwise as the Micro-Cross needs to come out. Anthony had some personal problems I believe and stopped working some years ago. A shame as i enjoyed his Beomuse site. Some of the articles can be found on the excellent Beocentral site.
That was actually my cartridge he repaired! I got the Beogram RX 2 at a yard sale for $5, discovered the broken cantilever, and wondered what I could do about it. After seeing a NIB MMC5 go for in excess of $150 (which was about three times what I could afford at the time), I asked Anthony what I could do about it, and he mentioned his experimental repair possibility. I shipped the broken MMC5 to him, he used a piece of piano wire to splice the cantilever back together, glued it up, tested it out, and sent it back to me, along with a CD of test samples recorded using the repaired MMC5, all for free. 😁 A very nice gesture to do all that for a poor college student. I wish he were still active in the B&O community.
-Adam
(sorry for the threadjacking)
And I recall he repaired one of my MMC's, tho not quite flawlessly (which he admitted). Anyway, I emailed Axel about my MMC-2 and he quoted me 159 euro to repair it even tho it just needs a renewed suspension. The cantilever and stylus are fine so I was expecting the cost to be less expensive.
The cantilever might not be fine once Axel has cut the end off the cartridge. He quotes an all or nothing price which I think is very reasonable when you compare it with the SMMC2 from Sound-smith.
Hi,
Nicklas, you haven't told us what had happened to your MMC2.
Had it been it re-tipped or not?
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