Another favorite cartridge vanishes.. Dynavector 17D3. GONE! replaced..

@chakster I admire both the quality of your pics as well as how clean you keep your cantilever and stylus! From the first macro pic you can see that the stylus has a square shank which is mounted to the finely machined tapered diamond cantilever. Quite a piece of workmanship indeed, but if it was entirely machined as one piece I don’t believe the stylus would have a square shank which is used to facilitate its proper alignment within the cantilever assembly. Definitely a unique cartridge!

With respect to styli, "nude" does not necessarily mean that the stylus will not be glued to the cantilever (most in fact will be-laser mounting is another option); it simply means that the entire stylus is diamond. 

Bonded or tipped styli, on the other hand, will feature only a small diamond tip which in turn is fastened (bonded) to a metal shank which in turn is then fastened/glued to the cantilever. Cheaper, more moving mass, poorer peformance (usually) etc. 

I'd be really surprised if the 17DS is indeed "one piece"; if it's even possible to do I would think that the cost would be prohibitive. 

My local hifi dealer had a D3 for demo purposes, they’d only had it a couple of days when the stylus disapperared, cantilever still intact, a badly glued stylus was the importer’s verdict and they sent a replacement.

Not sure how many of you ever seen modern solid rod boron cantilevers and how the nude diamonds actually mounted on them? Expecially after re-tipping. You will see a huge amount of glue around the nude diamond, this is the only substance that hold the diamond. Laser mounting style and Hollow Pipe Boron cantilevers are no longed available for any cartridge manufacturers. 

If someone will glue a brand new stylus tip on Karat 17DS then you will see a huge amount of glue on the cantilever around the diamond, also the diamond can be totally different in shape/size.

As you can see there is no glue around the diamond on my original Karat 17DS.

I can’t see any glue on my Karat 23RS Ruby.

Those original Dyna diamond or ruby have much less glue even compared to the pressure-fitted Ortofon Replicant-100 diamond on my SPU Royal G mkII.

There is no visible amount of glue on Victor X-1II cart with Beryllium cantilever.

This is what i call a perfect stylus/cantilever combo.

Let me find a picture of re-tipped cartridge, you will be shocked