Nandric, I commented on this in another thread. Chakster posted a photo of his ZYX showing that the stylus is pressure-fitted into the cantilever, not glued. Since the ZYX has a boron cantilever, or so I believe, that would make the ZYX exceptional. Any comments? (I own a ZYX Universe, their top of the line at one time before it was replaced by Universe II, etc, etc, etc, up to Universe III, last time I looked, and I do know that it bears a boron cantilever. Universe models are sold only in the US via their distributor, Mehran.)
Naturally, JCarr would say he prefers the sound of boron vs sapphire, since he uses boron. But he provided no data. Shure corporation studied different cantilever materials and actually published data (in 1978) to suggest that aluminum has certain advantages, in fact. No corporate entity does such research these days. Acutex used titanium, which may be unique to Acutex. It's all very interesting, but I see that Chakster has come around to my way of thinking; cantilevers do not alone determine the SQ. No single element of construction does that, IMO.