Chris,

Steve Yeung at VAS retipped my Dyna 20X2 cartridge last year. It sounds exceptional and I highly recommend his work. He has repaired hundreds of Dyna carts. He is located in the same building as VPI and wires a lot of their tonearms too.

He retipped my cart in two weeks too.

HK

My current cartridge is a Denon 103R which Steve rebuilt earlier this year with a boron cantilever and the line contact stylus. It sounds amazing and is a significant improvement over the stock 103R, which I also own. Best thing was the donor cartridge had a pretty severely skewed cantilever, and it came back to me perfectly straight and easy to align.

I also had him refurbish my 2nd gen Triplanar and it came back better than new: I can't wait to get it mounted this winter. He had to spend a lot of time looking for counterweight bushing material. He does beautiful work and I highly recommend him.

Thank you for the input all about Steve and Vinyl Audio Science. Steve did find the problem with my DV cart, a broken wire on the right coil. He asked if I used any liquid stylus cleaners or treatments and I admitted that I did and had forever. He said that it looked like the coil wire was oxidized, which caused fatigue and that's where it failed. He felt that he could repair it and after some discussion I decided to pass on the repair. I feel he is an AMAZING repair person with carts and from what armstdave said magical with his Triplaner tone arm repair. I would not hesitate to use him, his communication was better and faster than anyone I have met in audio repair. Going to look to the Hana LOMC after the holiday's and get settled up on a few medical bills. Steve said a dry stylus brush used correctly is the best thing to clean the tip. 45+ year playing with audio toys and I'm still learning....Happy listening, Chris.