What about diamond cantilever/stylus combo


In the so called 'MM thread' J. Carr explained the differences between cantilever materials.The advantage of aluminum cantilever being that the stylus can be pressure
fitted while by the so called 'exotic cantilevers' the stylus need to be glued in the cantilevers. There are different conditions which the cantilever need to satisfy
in order to ,uh, satisfy the preferences of an designer. J. Carr also explained why he prefers boron cantilevers. Now I own the Sony XL 88 as well as the Sony XL 88 D.
'D' referring to the cantilever and stylus made from one piece of diamond. But here is my confusion. Both carts have the same 'generator' and also the same technical specs. But 'soundwise' they are as different as an Lada and an Ferrari (by way of speaking or by exaggeration). The comparisson between French wines as well between the French chief cooks come to mind.BTW the pudding will also do. Without any technical pretenitons I would think that the only explantion for the mentioned difference should be the diamond cantilever/stylus combo. If it was possible I would gladly retip my chosen MC carts with such cantilever/ stylus combo and pay, say, $1500 for the jewel. Now if there is demand then there should be supply? The question is if there is 'interesting demand' for the possible producer(s)?

Regards,
128x128nandric
@griffithds is that your fist post in a while or am i missed something ? Glad you returned to the message board.

Dear slow, Social differences have nothing to do with technology.

By thinking about rich and poor I remembered this curious

''deviation of  Greek religion''. This religion somehow connected

Eastern with eggs. The eggs needed to be painted by Eastern and

 I remember my desperate mom  because she was not able to buy

any paint. I had no problem at all with unpainted eggs considering

our poor situation. The eggs in their natural form , my dear friend,

were considered as a luxury. But look at those rich Russians. Their

most luxurious jewel designer Faberge made more than 40 for

the king. You have no idea what those eggs cost by Christie

auctions. Ergo ; there is no hope for the poor because even the

eggs are not allowed to them.

@chakster  Your  are correct.  It has been a while.  Our friend Nadric's comment sparked such a large smile from me I just had to reply.  It is those never ending magical  observations made from Mexico that has kept me away!  (grin)
Nandric:

I was involved in a group buy of boron/microridge stylus/cantilever assemblies that a dealer on another forum organized earlier this year from Namiki.

His initial thought was to pursue a diamond cantilever/stylus option but the volume price was pretty excessive (at least compared to the boron which IMO came in quite reasonably priced) and somewhere around the $650 U.S. mark so that idea was abandoned. To be perfectly clear I am not sure what kind of volume would need to be ordered to obtain that price, so a single might be considerably more expensive.

In any event, I just wanted to let you know, on the off chance that you did not, that this combination is available through Namiki. I have no idea whether this is a one piece assembly or not-I would expect that it probably is not-but you may want to inquire either directly with Namiki or through your preferred rebuilder on this option if it still holds interest for you.

@hdm , Probably ''small world'' because I was informed by one

of my Polish friends about this adventure. He proudly informed

me that ''they'' can get boron cantilevers with ''glued in'' micro

ridge styli for an ''reasonable price '' . My question was if they

want to try to install them by them self in the so called ''joint

pipe''? For the retippers this job is the most attractive one:

gluing the whole combo in the ''aluminum tube'' behind and

charge 500 euro for the job. Even my old friend Axel Schurholz

refused to do the more difficult job of gluing only the stylus in

the original cantilever for 250 euro. He got so many orders from

''everywhere'' that he could afford such attitude. Thanks to

me among other because I made P&R for him in our forum.

Cost me 500 euro instead of 250 + 6 months waiting time instead

of 2 weeks (grin).