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Turntables tended to disappear with the advent of compact disc players, but analog reproduction is regaining popularity, with the reprint of vinyl records. Once your platinum has been found and dusted off, the hardest part is often finding the corresponding diamond or sapphire if it is worn, broken or missing. Their manufacture has ceased for almost 20 years and without diamonds or sapphires, your platinum is no longer useful. The simplest solution is often to buy a new turntable. There are, however, a few enthusiasts who have been fortunate enough to salvage old inventory and who can bring your turntable and the memories that go with it to life ...

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The Asian market has also rushed into this niche and manufactures copies of diamonds with composite tips of more or less good quality. In fact no, of mediocre quality ... The composite is very often plastic and the material degrades in the groove after a few hours. The musical rendering has nothing to do with it. The person who expected to vibrate is disappointed, and very often, the turntable returns to the attic. By searching a little on the net, we manage to find diamonds around 3.50 euros delivery costs included… I wonder how this is possible knowing that the price of a letter followed for a shipment abroad from France is of 3.90 euros… The articles are then resold on Ebay, Amazon, or Rakuten around 20 euros. Anyway, that's not the subject. There are a few salespeople and repairers who are passionate about what they do. Alexis Dalcin in the Tarn, Pierre Enrique in the Gard and David Winter in Paris to name a few.

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Richard (my partner) and I mainly offer ZAFIRA brand diamonds or sapphires with a natural diamond sparkle tip, the quality of which is and remains undisputed. We also have cells for record players and turntables. The Zafira company disappeared several years ago due to lack of orders ... As a general rule, a diamond has a lifespan of between 500 and 600 hours of listening time against 50 to 60 for a sapphire. This life is often shortened when the discs are not in excellent condition and especially if they have been read with synthetic or poor quality diamond.

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