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Dimond Cantilevers And Tip Mass

Something we don’t see discussed lately is tip mass and how responsive a cartridge is. Now what about these ruby and diamond cantilevers and what the effects of these cantilevers are? The diamond is still mounted to the cantilver with an epoxy, so it is not like the Sony of yore where it was a solid cantilever/diamond piece. Yes the cantilever should be stiffer with them gemstone, but what about at the cost of tip mass and how responsive it is? Secondly how well does the material damp resonances? It seems that in some respects that boron and compsoite materials might have an advantage here.

 

Has this come up in discussion recently? And have any conclusions been drawn?

neonknight
larryi
3,886 posts
 

Also, the London Decca ang Garrot Bros. cartridges have a cantilever--it is just a funky bent thing that doesn't look like anyone else's cantilever.  

That was an interesting cartridge--very alive sounding and almost meeting my "pretty good" standard.

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glennewdick
1,619 posts
 

I though they had stated up again. wasn't the London Reference the new version? I could be incorrect.

My friend is a huge collector of London Decca's he must have a doz or so. very nice sounding cart's, I agree. He has a very interesting system comprised of stacked quads. the carts sound very nice on those. 

bill_k
906 posts
 

The Audio Technica AT-MC2022 was only manufactured in very limited quantities and has been sold out for years. The DS Audio Grand Master Extreme cartridge uses the same one piece cantilever/stylus but retails for $22,500.

terry9
2,309 posts
 

My Koetsu DC was said to be one-piece, but a photomicrograph seems to show otherwise. In any case, there is no glob of epoxy to be seen - in fact, no evidence of epoxy at all. So, very low mass at the stylus.

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baylinor
1,364 posts
 

I hate to think about re-tipping a solid diamond stylus/cantilever.

 

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