Lumiere DST 157

Lumiere DST 157 When such a fine cartridge, the property of my friend Tom, wasnt singing up to par it was a truly sad evenience. The cartridge was purchased second-hand and she never sounded awesome ... maybe just average , as per Toms impressions sharing. Trashing it? Naaaah! Some surgery was needed and only a man, to my experience and after trying several famous, yet sometimes overrated, so-called cartridge mavens cares, was able to perform a complete rebuild. Leonid Sinitsin was able to dismantle and carefully make the miracle : new steel cantilever, new hand-wound triangle-shaped coils, new conical diamond, alignment, also a magnet air-gap re-adjusted, previously too wide, resulting in a very poor overall sound and dynamics and detailing and far too low sensitivity and lacking of WOW! factor... not a good sampler, indeed... From the once a black duckling into a majestic swan. Chiaki Kikuchis workmanship was sadly getting worst at any sampler, after the 2005-2006 ...