@halcro
Having said that I wouldn't have bought any of those cartridges exept for the Urushi for Ravel La Valse, and the Lyra Titan i for speed and precision. I wouldn't necessarily ascribe the sound of any of these specifically to the boron cantilever.
We have a phrase here in NZ - yeah right.
The only one I have a complete aversion to is the shibata - I have found every shibata tipped cartridge I have heard to be brittle - much prefer micro ridge of the exotic tips.
All these cartridges have 3 things in common....
- Koetsu Urushi
- Symphonic Line RG Gold LO
- Lyra Helikon
- Lyra Titan i
- Lyra Atlas
- Clearaudio Concerto
- Clearaudio Insider Gold
- Dynavector XV-1S
- ZYX UNIverse
- They were all expensive current-model LOMC cartridges which I’ve owned over the last 40 years
- They all have Boron Cantilevers
- They all no longer exist in my System
Having said that I wouldn't have bought any of those cartridges exept for the Urushi for Ravel La Valse, and the Lyra Titan i for speed and precision. I wouldn't necessarily ascribe the sound of any of these specifically to the boron cantilever.
There are many audiophiles who claim to clearly hear the differences between MC and MM cartridges.....I’m not one of those 🤔
We have a phrase here in NZ - yeah right.
There are many audiophiles who will only praise the virtues of exotic-profile Line-Contact type styli...I’m almost in that ’camp’ but am not dogmatic 🤗
The only one I have a complete aversion to is the shibata - I have found every shibata tipped cartridge I have heard to be brittle - much prefer micro ridge of the exotic tips.