Dear @trytone @mulveling : The main difference between cartridges from the same manufacturer or between manufacturers is the design of the CARTRIDGE MOTOR and after that comes the cantilever build material and length and shape of that cantilever.
Same cartridge motor cartridges but with different cantilever will performs different and in your Koetsus and as a cantilever build material Boron is only second to Diamond and that's one reason to performs better in its quality performance.
Glue is not exactly an " enemy " on a cartridge design because the cartridge as a system along the LP grooves modulations and its relations ship with the TT and tonearm can help to damps a little vibrations/resonances developed down there.
Cartridge at that top levels use a very especial type of glue and at minimum to not affect really the dynamic mass down there.
Btw @mulveling you can't know ( because no one cartridge manufacturer says. ) if the diamond sample is exactly the same cartridge motor design and I mean it: a clone.
The cantilever issue is not only about build material but as I said: its length, shape and even its " raw " characteristics on each manufacturer. Along all those parameters and other than the stylus shape that makes a differences is the cartridge suspension type where the cantilever is and how attached.
Things are more complicated that what we can think, nothing is simple with a cartridge.
Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.
Same cartridge motor cartridges but with different cantilever will performs different and in your Koetsus and as a cantilever build material Boron is only second to Diamond and that's one reason to performs better in its quality performance.
Glue is not exactly an " enemy " on a cartridge design because the cartridge as a system along the LP grooves modulations and its relations ship with the TT and tonearm can help to damps a little vibrations/resonances developed down there.
Cartridge at that top levels use a very especial type of glue and at minimum to not affect really the dynamic mass down there.
Btw @mulveling you can't know ( because no one cartridge manufacturer says. ) if the diamond sample is exactly the same cartridge motor design and I mean it: a clone.
The cantilever issue is not only about build material but as I said: its length, shape and even its " raw " characteristics on each manufacturer. Along all those parameters and other than the stylus shape that makes a differences is the cartridge suspension type where the cantilever is and how attached.
Things are more complicated that what we can think, nothing is simple with a cartridge.
Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.