Dear @best.-groove : The use of aluminum material in cantilevers has other reasons additional of what I posted.
One of those reasons could be the low knowledge level of the manufacturer to design something better because if that design only sounds good with aluminum in the cantilever then something is wrong in that design and this is true when the design is a copy of other cartridge where exist true inhabilities to make a better design.
Copy-cat is and was more often that we can imagine and not only in cartridges but in tonearms or TT and other audio items.
An examples of that could be the Graham tonearm that comes from the vintage Audiocraft tonearm design or the Moerch that comes from the Highphonic tonearm design.
From where came Highphonic cartridges?, well from ex-Denon cartridge employees that founded HP and the first " move " in their new designs came to the cantilever build material that instead to use aluminum like in Denon they started to use carbon fiber, diamond and ruby.
Today there are several cartrisges that uses the Denon 103 cartridge motor or the Benz-Micro one or the VDH one or Goldring and others cartridge motors and this exist because some of the original manufacturers works as OM for marketers./sales companies.
It's like Jelco that additional to his own tonearms the manufacture for Ortofon, Audioques, Sumiko, Koetsu and others.
Scan-Tech build top cartridges for Lyra, Linn, Audioquest, etc, etc.
Of copurse that both examples makes the " new " tonearm or cartridges under the seller specs/characteristics.
R.
One of those reasons could be the low knowledge level of the manufacturer to design something better because if that design only sounds good with aluminum in the cantilever then something is wrong in that design and this is true when the design is a copy of other cartridge where exist true inhabilities to make a better design.
Copy-cat is and was more often that we can imagine and not only in cartridges but in tonearms or TT and other audio items.
An examples of that could be the Graham tonearm that comes from the vintage Audiocraft tonearm design or the Moerch that comes from the Highphonic tonearm design.
From where came Highphonic cartridges?, well from ex-Denon cartridge employees that founded HP and the first " move " in their new designs came to the cantilever build material that instead to use aluminum like in Denon they started to use carbon fiber, diamond and ruby.
Today there are several cartrisges that uses the Denon 103 cartridge motor or the Benz-Micro one or the VDH one or Goldring and others cartridge motors and this exist because some of the original manufacturers works as OM for marketers./sales companies.
It's like Jelco that additional to his own tonearms the manufacture for Ortofon, Audioques, Sumiko, Koetsu and others.
Scan-Tech build top cartridges for Lyra, Linn, Audioquest, etc, etc.
Of copurse that both examples makes the " new " tonearm or cartridges under the seller specs/characteristics.
R.