@rauliruegas, Thanx, I thought there must be a reason so many top manufacturers would use boron rod aside from a nice flat end to glue a stylus too and index it correctly.
I had a Talisman S for years. I liked it a lot. It was small and light, tracked super well and imaged nicely. It was a little thin sounding overall in my system. Eventually a wire broke inside and one channel went dead. It was replaced by a Grado Statement.
The glue being used is probably softened by certain solvents. As an example ethanol will slowly dissolve epoxy. Water is no danger. In a pint of distilled water add two drops of J+J's Baby Shampoo. This works great as a stylus/cantilever cleaner and will not damage the glue. Glued on styli are tough enough to handle routine use just fine. They are not as tough as pressed in styli but there is considerably less mass were it counts. I did have the stylus off a Clearaudio Charisma vaporize not long ago but it was brand new and was replaced instantly by the importer Musical Surroundings. The replacement has been fine. You definitely do not want to drop or fumble the tonearm. I've always cued by hand but I think that is going to change. Schroder arms do not come with tonearm rests. Mr Schroder believes in avoiding anything not totally necessary hanging off his arms. He believes they resonate. I always lock my arms in place when I work on the cartridge. You can't work on an arm floating around, dangerous. So I made a cocobolo tonearm rest that will be attached to the Sota's plinth which I have been lead to believe I will have in two weeks or construction will start in two weeks, not clear:-(
In December I will be going to NYC for the audio show. On the way down I plan on stopping at Soundsmith to hear the Strain Gauge. I will try and get an answer from Mr Ledermann why he does not use a diamond cantilever. His best cartridges use ruby and cactus spines.
I had a Talisman S for years. I liked it a lot. It was small and light, tracked super well and imaged nicely. It was a little thin sounding overall in my system. Eventually a wire broke inside and one channel went dead. It was replaced by a Grado Statement.
The glue being used is probably softened by certain solvents. As an example ethanol will slowly dissolve epoxy. Water is no danger. In a pint of distilled water add two drops of J+J's Baby Shampoo. This works great as a stylus/cantilever cleaner and will not damage the glue. Glued on styli are tough enough to handle routine use just fine. They are not as tough as pressed in styli but there is considerably less mass were it counts. I did have the stylus off a Clearaudio Charisma vaporize not long ago but it was brand new and was replaced instantly by the importer Musical Surroundings. The replacement has been fine. You definitely do not want to drop or fumble the tonearm. I've always cued by hand but I think that is going to change. Schroder arms do not come with tonearm rests. Mr Schroder believes in avoiding anything not totally necessary hanging off his arms. He believes they resonate. I always lock my arms in place when I work on the cartridge. You can't work on an arm floating around, dangerous. So I made a cocobolo tonearm rest that will be attached to the Sota's plinth which I have been lead to believe I will have in two weeks or construction will start in two weeks, not clear:-(
In December I will be going to NYC for the audio show. On the way down I plan on stopping at Soundsmith to hear the Strain Gauge. I will try and get an answer from Mr Ledermann why he does not use a diamond cantilever. His best cartridges use ruby and cactus spines.
