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In Reply to: RE: How many realize that posted by marknoir on May 11, 2008 at 18:16:07
Hi Mark,
In just about any business, you can always just hire someone to do a job, train them, etc. We would not think that prudent, though, when discussing a shortage of neurosurgeons. I don't think it's too great a stretch to see the people who work through a microscope on very, very tiny things, as the audio equivalent thereof.
If you had a company, say AudioTechnica or Denon, and you had to deal with repairing and rebuilding cartridges, that is one thing. Every cart that comes in for repair your company made, and servicing them presents a rather narrow set of challenges. Now when you are talking about a company that will conceivably repair just about any cartridge ever built, such as Soundsmith, this is a whole different ballgame. You have to have a PhD. in the history of cartridge design. You have to be a true engineer. You have to have a set of skills that take many years to learn- manipulating on a near microscopic level. And you have to have an ear, so that you don't mangle the sound that enamored the owner of the cartridge enough that they would send it in for repair, as opposed to buying a new one, or whatever is available today, and so forth.
Those people are well nigh an endangered species. They are not trained in a month, not in a year. The dedication and passion needed have no relationship with economics, supply and demand. Notice that in the list I gave, most of the men who do this are themselves master cartridge makers. And so is Ledermann. I actually LIKE the fact that when I give Soundsmith my cartridges to fix, I know it is Ledermann doing the work, not someone who does not know what they are doing. I'll wait for as long as it takes. I noticed that Lovetube sent Soundsmith a SPU, from Australia. Well, why not send it to Garrott Bros? If I was in Australia, that would be where I would go.
If you don't have patience, buy a new cartridge. As I posted before, this kind of mimeographed sign is found everywhere in repair shops in rural Pennsylvania, where I live-
"You can have the job done cheap, fast or well. Choose two of the above."
Two is being optimistic.
Jonathan
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