SoundSmith Sapphire cantilever upgrade to CA Virtuoso?

Normally people refurbish MC cartridges with SoundSmith, except for a few very popular vintage MM models where the original Ruby cantilever was an option from the manufacturer back in the day. Grace cartridges for example. There was an original Grace RUBY and SoudSmith upgrade is also RUBY (with different stylus tip). This is OK. 

Your Clear Audio has Audio-Technica motor inside, you want to upgrade Aluminum cantilever with Sapphire cantilever. Maybe it will be better, maybe not. Why do you want to keep using Virtuoso (even refurbished) ? Did you try to compare this model to anything else ? 

There are Clear Audio cartridges with Boron cantilever, maybe you can add Boron instead of Sapphire ? 

You'd better ask Peter at SoundSmith what is the optimal. 

I broke the cantilever on my Virtuoso Wood and had the Ruby retip done by Soundsmith.  It sounded very nice, but I'm not sure I'd consider it an "upgrade".  If you want to upgrade, get a different cartridge.  If you've broken the cantilever, Andy Kim also does a nice job of re-tipping.

Dear @drewharty : I owned the Virtuoso ( same At motor than the 95. ) and own the 95 with elliptical stylus tip and the 95ML version and I can tell you that's a true improvement with better quality performance levels.
In the other side is really unexpensive.

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.

I would send it in for repair, then keep as a spare.

I would upgrade to something else if I wanted an upgrade

Thanks for everyones input. I am looking into cartridges that would be considered an upgrade, but my budget is limited--mostly looking at a used Maestro V2 or Zephyr MK III with low use.

There seems to be mixed opinions about whether a new stylus improves the sound quality of the Virtuoso. Many say there's a big improvement with the 95ML, like Rauliruegas, or the Soundsmith Sapphire stylus, but some say not, so it doesn't seem like it would be a waste to try a new stylus, if I can't find something else used.

Drew