Thinking about switching cartridges.

I own Hana ML it’s very good, the Lyra Delos is probably better.

Yes Russia…probably a difficult environment given world events…. 

A favorite of mine and in the stable is the Dynavector 17D3 with a very short diamond cantilever….. but again…. it’s a system with a variety of trades that get made….

Dear @tomic601 : No, chackster owns no single cartridge with cantilever diamond even he does not likes LOMC that are the only cartridges with diamond cantilevers.

chackster here in Agon was a seller of vintage MM/MI cartridges, as a fact when he appeared in Agon he had not very good cartridge knowledge levels he learned almost all here in Agon mainly through the long MM thread.

R.

I own a Dynavector 17D3.  I think that D series all have one-piece diamond cantilever/styli.  So if and when the stylus wears out, you would have to replace both if you want to preserve originality.  Am I correct in this belief? (Raul?)  If so, does Dynavector have the capability? I rank that cartridge as upper level but not tops.  Very enjoyable, nevertheless.

Under a microscope, it does appear that stylus and cantilever are one piece.

@mijostyn : " I cannot say there is any advantage in a diamond cantilever over boron, ruby or cactus spine.. "

There are one critical advantage of diamond for cantilevers and it’s about stifness ( Young Modulus ) where diamond hast the higher YM spec followed by boron and where ruby/sapyre are really poor in this regards.

Your Atlas Lambda comes with boron cantilever and a cover of diamond, j.carr knows a lot about and that’s why he does not use ruby or other inferior materials for cartridge cantilevers.

Btw, normal micro ridge stylus shape is made by Namiki.

Here about Young modulus materials: Ruby is around 250 vs over 700 in the boron not showed in the link:

R.