edgewear : I was talking more of vintage cartridges than today ones.
In those old times in Japan existed a " savage " competition between cartridge designs and obviously to take higher part of the market with top designs. Tha's why existed so many diamond cantilever designs from well regarded manufacturers. The benefits were for the customers.
One manufacturer told me and it's my take that speaking of diamond cantilever top of the line model the overall build of those cartridges is a lot more " accurated " than with the non diamond cantilevers. Example: estrictc hand selected parts as the cantilever it self the stylus condition/polished, extreme tigth tolerances in the coils, cartridge body construction, kind of dampers, estrict voicing, tight measurements and everything need it for a finished cartridge.
The manufacturer has to do it to put a high price tag, so for me all those is a difference against the " normal " boron cantilever same models.
Diamond as Boron or other cantilever material has its own signature and for unknow to me reasons manufacturers like Dynavector did not choosed diamond cantilever in its today top of the line models neither Lyra and many others.
It's the sum of the parts ( how the manufacturer take care about. ) and not only the diamond cantilever what could make that " not big difference ".
In the other side we audiophiles when bougth a top of the line diamond cantilever at high $$$$ we are biased to think it will performs excellent and better than the non diamond cantilever model, so more or less we are " conditionned " in that way.
The same question that mijos did it to JC I did it in the past too. Could be important and this is for sure that JC can gives to all of us his expert opinion. Maybe his next move could be a diamond cantilver Lyra design. or maybe he knows that diamond can't gives an advantage over his today top Lamda series.
R.
In those old times in Japan existed a " savage " competition between cartridge designs and obviously to take higher part of the market with top designs. Tha's why existed so many diamond cantilever designs from well regarded manufacturers. The benefits were for the customers.
One manufacturer told me and it's my take that speaking of diamond cantilever top of the line model the overall build of those cartridges is a lot more " accurated " than with the non diamond cantilevers. Example: estrictc hand selected parts as the cantilever it self the stylus condition/polished, extreme tigth tolerances in the coils, cartridge body construction, kind of dampers, estrict voicing, tight measurements and everything need it for a finished cartridge.
The manufacturer has to do it to put a high price tag, so for me all those is a difference against the " normal " boron cantilever same models.
Diamond as Boron or other cantilever material has its own signature and for unknow to me reasons manufacturers like Dynavector did not choosed diamond cantilever in its today top of the line models neither Lyra and many others.
It's the sum of the parts ( how the manufacturer take care about. ) and not only the diamond cantilever what could make that " not big difference ".
In the other side we audiophiles when bougth a top of the line diamond cantilever at high $$$$ we are biased to think it will performs excellent and better than the non diamond cantilever model, so more or less we are " conditionned " in that way.
The same question that mijos did it to JC I did it in the past too. Could be important and this is for sure that JC can gives to all of us his expert opinion. Maybe his next move could be a diamond cantilver Lyra design. or maybe he knows that diamond can't gives an advantage over his today top Lamda series.
R.