Dear @edgewear : """
So the use of aluminum cantilever has nothing to do with 'ignorance' on the designer's part ... ""
could be butb in some cases low knowledge design levels is one of the reason for aluminum cantilevers.
In this thread I posted about:
""" Aluminum in the FR was what the designer like it more when he voiced his cartridges. Cantilever is an important part in the whole cartridge desing but only one part and in the voicing of the manufacturers we are in the " hands " of the designer bias to some kind of sound he was looking for.
Aluminum in the Magic Diamond was or is used not because is the best material but first because use the same cartridge motor of the Denon 103 ( aluminum cantilever. ) and second because was what the biased manufacturer like it.
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 design. ""
Btw, like you I really like the Colibri and owned 4-5 samples but the platinum and blackwood one. I owned the Colibri with wood body but was a red/rose one.
Now, the best Colibri cartridge I experienced was one of the first models that cames with small soft plastic body and with cooper coils with an output level of 0.22mv. Till today the best Colibri I experienced in my system and in other systems.
R.
could be butb in some cases low knowledge design levels is one of the reason for aluminum cantilevers.
In this thread I posted about:
""" Aluminum in the FR was what the designer like it more when he voiced his cartridges. Cantilever is an important part in the whole cartridge desing but only one part and in the voicing of the manufacturers we are in the " hands " of the designer bias to some kind of sound he was looking for.
Aluminum in the Magic Diamond was or is used not because is the best material but first because use the same cartridge motor of the Denon 103 ( aluminum cantilever. ) and second because was what the biased manufacturer like it.
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 design. ""
Btw, like you I really like the Colibri and owned 4-5 samples but the platinum and blackwood one. I owned the Colibri with wood body but was a red/rose one.
Now, the best Colibri cartridge I experienced was one of the first models that cames with small soft plastic body and with cooper coils with an output level of 0.22mv. Till today the best Colibri I experienced in my system and in other systems.
R.