Diamond Stylus Enters the 4th Dimension

That could definitely rip your stylus off. (the Onzow)
Daveyf, the ultimate was 3+3's. I could not afford them back when they were available and they did not make very many of them, but you could stack 3's. When you make the speaker 8 feet tall it metamorphs from a lamb into a tiger. The basic characteristics remain just a lot punchier, louder with a larger sound stage. The problem with 2+2's is that they are very selfish. They do not have quite enough horizontal dispersion. If I had the 3+3's I probably would not be lusting after Sound Labs 845's....as much.
Hopefully will hear from Elusive Disc today.

@mijostyn  I think you are referring to the Acoustat 6's when you say 3+3...is that right? I had a friend who used to own the Acoustat 8's. They were huge! Required an extremely large room, which he had, and were not that easy to drive. I thought they were a good speaker, but I also thought that stacked Quad's were far superior, and for a lot less $$. 
I always lusted after Quads when I owned my Acoustat's...
Not so much today..:0)

Good news. Sam Arnold from Elusive Disc called to tell me that Ken from Musical Surroundings wanted me to email him the USB Micro pictures of the cantilever and he would send a new cartridge right out! Sh-t Happens.
It is what you do about it that counts.

daveyf, it was 3+3 and 4+4. All of them were 8 feet tall. The Acoustats were worlds tougher than Quads. It is almost impossible to blow an Acoustat. I have personally been party to the destruction of three Quads. This is no comment on current units just the old ones. As for sound quality it depended on how you drove them. Given a powerful class A amp the Acoustat 3's could sound just as good as quads. Once you get to the 8 foot guys it should be no comparison as the sound stage is larger and more detailed than stacked quads which do not form line sources. Again you need a high test amp. We have not even talked about subwoofers yet. My ancient 2+2's with subwoofers will do 110 db all day long. I certainly do not need larger speakers for volume reasons. I rarely go above 95 dB. I would really like better horizontal dispersion which Sound Labs speakers offer. Finding 3+3s is virtually impossible. If I could find good clean panels I could make them but more than likely I will switch over to Sound Labs. 

One last note.

Ken Bowers of Musical Surroundings is sending me a new cartridge with a return label for the old one just based on the USB micro pics you can see on my system page. You could not possible ask for a better performance. Kudos to Elusive Disc, Musical Surroundings and Clearaudio. 

@mijostyn I think you are right, the Acoustat 6 and the model 8 were in fact doubled up three’s and fours. I seem to remember that they were not called 3+3 or 4+4 though. I did think that the stacked Quad’s were more revealing and accurate in their timbre and midrange reproduction.
I could never get my Acoustat 3’s to really sound that great, the Maggie’s that I sold to buy them, where in my system far superior sounding. The Maggie's were just so much more accurate in their bottom end response and imaged with greater precision. At the time i was using a Counterpoint preamp and a Melos tube amp...perhaps that was the issue??