Who needs a Diamond Cantilever...? 💍

Dear Raul,

You are more tolerant or less sensitive to those additional developed distortions than me.

We’re all here to learn.....For many many years, we’ve heard about your unique ability to identify and analyse ’distortions’ in the ’Audio Chain’.You’ve never been able to describe nor clarify these ’distortions’..🧐
But now you CAN 🥳
HERE on my ’Hear My Cartridges’ Thread are scores of YouTube Videos with dozens of cartridge comparisons on all types of music. Many contributors have been able to identify and describe ’minute’ differences that are audible between each and every cartridge.
Frogman (a professional musician) is consummately skilled and erudite in his abilities to analyse these ’differences’.
He has particularly invited YOU

I would be interested in knowing what you yourself hear in some of these comparisons. Have some fun and feel free to “go in deep”.

For some reason you have failed to accept that invitation...?
Unless you can finally demonstrate to us...one and all....the ’Kinds’ of distortions you are "more sensitive to"....I must politely request that you cease using these meaningless terms.
Certainly in any Post directed at me 🤭

Will be interesting to see if anyone can hear the differences between the ’Normal’ cantilever and the ’Diamond’.....🧐👂

SONY XL-88 LOMC CARTRIDGE

SONY XL-88D LOMC CARTRIDGE Diamond Cantilever

Dear @halcro  : You have extremely short memory because was you in this thread whom don't resist the temptation when I posted the higher prices of cartridges well above the 88D price and posted:

Another :

""  Believe what he says at your own risk.. ""

when IMHO there was not any necessity to  post that refering to me.

Now, even with that truly You Tube " high high resolution " I think you can hear what's obvious but you have to be extremely ingenue/innocent that any one could listen tiny developed kind of distortions though you tube process and then with that signal " destroyed " by the listener rig to listen it.

In the other side if you can't directly at your home system hear the distortions developed by that terrible/disastrous S3 headshell how could you think you will listen it from you tube recording. Makes sense to you? because for me is almost a stupid way of thinking.
Please think for a moment how that S3 " works " against quality when all those ( non-damped. ) metal parts just " inmediatly " return/feedback its developed resonances/distortions to the cartridge cantilevers additional to the tonearm feedback own resonances.

As I posted I experienced with the S3 and with the Goldbug Brier dedicated and similar design headshell.

Any one can see from your system that the room/system it self impedes that you can listen tiny developed distortions due that the subs are rigth below the mounted cartridges and speakers are at " milimeter " from those cartridges, that  to big glass table plate just in front of the speakers and that all metal in the parlor furniture and many many other issues that impedes you can listen truly to some kind of distortions. So it's not that you are more tolerant or less sensitive it's only that in your room/system you just can't listen it.

I'm talking of very fine tunned system ( my system. ) with very high resolution where even me that are not a " golden ears " one can detect it and remember that I have a self developed  whole evaluation bullet proff process where almost everything is matched including SPLs when I make tests and I do it seated at near field position.

In your party time ( heard my cartridges. ) I read it that the SPL for two different cartridges in the tests were not matched, at least was what a gentleman in that " party " posted about.

So, for all those is futile to make through your " method " any serious evaluations.

You have fun in your " kinder-garden "  and go a head, at the end fun is fun.

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.

In the other side if you can't directly at your home system hear the distortions developed by that terrible/disastrous S3 headshell how could you think you will listen it from you tube recording. Makes sense to you? because for me is almost a stupid way of thinking.

Aaah....but we're not talking about ME Raul.....🤭
Of course I can't hear "distortions" which aren't there 🤪!
We're talking about YOU Raul.....who for years has spoken endlessly about your "self-taught" ability to 'hear' and 'analyse' every facet of the audio chain....and you even do it again in your Post above 😂.
But you admit that you can't hear a SINGLE "distortion" in the YouTube videos....?
What happened to these "distortions" Raul?
Did they somehow manage to 'vanish' in the recording process?
Others (like Frogman, Noromance, Dover) can hear clearly...the minute differences in the cartridges presented via the YouTube videos but you can't....🤗 

Please think for a moment how that S3 " works " against quality when all those ( non-damped. ) metal parts just " inmediatly " return/feedback its developed resonances/distortions to the cartridge cantilevers additional to the tonearm feedback own resonances.

Blah, blah, blah....words and theories which you disguise as 'knowledge' but reveal your ignorance.
Here we have a perfect 'test' for you Raul......
There are a dozen videos on my Thread, which use the WE-8000/ST arm WITHOUT the S3 headshell.
Please point out to us the "resonances, distortions, feedback" that are 'missing' with these headshells...😉
And if you CAN'T.......please have the humility to finally admit to us all, that you are nothing but an 'Audio Fraud' who hides behind meaningless 'words' but when 'challenged' to prove his boastful audio abilities.....continues to 'hide' behind meaningless words 🤣

It’s understandably difficult to hear the ’nuances’ and ’subtleties’ that a different cantilever material may bring....
I couldn’t hear the differences between a SAS-Boron, a NeoSAS-Sapphire and a NeoSAS-Ruby when I did the comparisons a while ago 🤨
It is therefore even more difficult to isolate any differences via YouTube videos. It becomes easier the better your playback medium is....

Listen to the beginning of the track with just the bass guitar, percussion and piano....
There is a distinctly different ’tone’ and clarity with the 88D and an ’added’ ability to project a 3D image.
Then listen at the 0.33 sec mark when the saxophone first comes in....there is a slight coarseness to its sound which is missing with the Diamond stylus.
Listen to the background drums behind the piano at the 1.00+ min mark which are more distinct and shimmery with the 88D.
And the real ’kicker’ at the 1.42 mark where the sax begins to strut its stuff....the 88D just gives this so much ’tonality’ that you can actually hear the reed..
Then listen to the background percussion and cymbals behind the sax all the way to the 3.00 min mark. Just a bit clearer and shimmery (again) with the 88D.
Then the drums from the 3.00 to the 3.30 marks...just a bit more ’timbre’ with the 88D.
At the 4.05 mark with the bass, piano and percussion...hear the extra clarity and sheen of the cymbals with the 88D and particularly behind the bass at the 4.40 mark till the end.