Boron Cantilever and Ruby Cantilever, Why Ruby?

In one of his contributions J. Carr explained advantages and

disadvantages of cantilevers materials. Aluminum (alloy) has

as advantage that the stylus can be pressure fitted instead of

glued. Exotic materials are all frail so the stylus must be glued.

The glue  between stylus and cantilever is obvious disadvantage.

He explained why he prefer boron and mentioned not to like

the sound of sapphire kinds.

Dear Lew, As you (should) know I would be more interested in

what Frege would say instead of Kant. But you may be more

impressed with Kant's ''transcendental subjects''. As a blind

person can ''see'' on chakster picture his ZYX has an tube on

the cantilever in which (tube) the stylus is fastened. So we

need to know the material of which this tube is made. As I

already mentioned I quoted Carr regarding the need to glue

the stylus in those fragile cantilevers. Even if those are laser

cut. By pressure fit they will break or shatter. Otherwise nobody

would use glue for this purpose. The glue between the cantilever

 and stylus is not beneficial for the rigidity of the connection. I am

 not able to judge Axel's capabilities but, if chakster is right, he

obviously destroyed the ''magic'' of my ZYX (grin).

Dear Lew, I quoted Carr because I can remember what he stated.

BTW I asked the question. Dertonarm also explained to me why

he prefers aluminum cantilevers. Alas I forget his arguments and

am reluctant to bother him because he is very busy at present.

Like my Slavic brother chakster i own different so called ''top

carts'' with aluminum cantilevers: ''some'' FR's, some Ikeda's,

one Miyabi Standard and Andreoli's Magic Diamond. I also

own ZYX Airy 3 with boron cantilever and glued stylus in a kind

of tube which is glued on the (boron) cantilever. My Friend Axel

Schurholz was not impressed with ZYX stylus and substituted

for his own boron/shibata combo. Despite of those ''facts'' I am

still most impressed with Berillium cantilevers. Alas no hard facts

for this opinion but, as you know, we are all emotional connected

with this hobby so the question is not about the truth (grin).

@hdm, Thanks for your (moral) support  and empathy.

My ZYX has an curious history. I got this sample as present

from an friend. Alas the suspension was defective while I

was skeptical about repair possibility because of the, uh,

glued together plastic body. Skeptical because I already

owned Sony XL 88 D (D= one piece diamond cantilever/

stylus combo). This kind of cartridges are regarded as

irreparable. But Axel Schurholz is my friend with 40

years repair experience. So I posted my ZYX to him in

hope to get ''somehow'' new suspension. From this (part)

of the story you can deduce that I have no idea how my ZYX

sounded before Axel's repair. He needed to drill hole's

in the body to reach those screws on the generator. Those

are adjustments screws for the tension wire ,etc. Anyway

he phoned me with advise to also change the cantilever/

stylus for his boron/shibata combo. The stylus only retip

was not possible because ZYX cantilever/stylus construction.

I was very satisfy with the sound because back than I was

not aware about chakster's warning (grin). However my

aversion against those plastic bodies was such that I would

never buy any ZYX . I ever started an thread about irreparable

cartridges in the mentioned context but, alas, nobody was

interested despite my good intentions (grin). Anyway I hope

for my friend Lew as well my Slavic brother that their ZYX

styli will last for ever...

Dear chakster, ''You will not see as much amount of glue as you can

see on re -tipped carts''. This remind me of my ''socialist upbringing''.

Our secretary of foreign affair declared: ''In our socialistic country

there are no homosexuals . But if there are they are in such small

numbers that it is not worth mentioning''.  For ''some'' reasons this

person have had very short political career. The (philosophical?)

''IF' may have ruin his career. So what is the difference between

''no glue'' versus ''very little glue''?

Dear Lew, I offered to you my Ikeda 9C under very favourable

conditions: free trial and decision after, uh, inspection. As

you mentioned many times you are not easy to impress. This

Ikeda 9 C is the most dynamic MC cart ever produced. The

reason , like by Decca, NO cantilever at all. But you refused

my offer because you preferred my FR-7fz with ALUMINUM

cantilever .  Some ''dogmatic reasons'' perhaps?