Dear chakster, ''I don't really care what retipper can do with MM
carts''. But how then can you advice whomever about the retip
possibilities? You are ''swimming'' between possible and ideal
according to your own ''perception'' or rather ''preferences''. But
why should anyone care for your preferences? There are many
MM carts for which the original stylus is impossible to get. So
your ''ideal'' is irrelevenat. The owners of such carts will try to
find whatever substitution they can . Your advice not to use
the ''lesser than ideal'' stylus make then no sense. There are
obvious contradictions in your argumentation. Your own reference
is 145 euro for such ''substitution stylus''. But any retip with boron
cantilever + whatever stylus is above 400 euro. You are not in
the position like your brother to buy a new car instead of Allaerts
MC 2 (grin). I just checked my AT 160 and am stunned with the
quality of the cantilever/stylus quality. In no new cart at present
irrespective of price such quality can be seen. All those boron
rod cantilevers look the same. Your comparisson between
beryllium and boron is very curious. It looks like: ''John is
the tallest guy in our class but Peter is even taller''.
Either beryllium is better material for cantievers than boron or not .
If so then boron can't become ''better'' because chakster think so.