New Zirconia Pipe Cantilever .. What's up with that ?

Chak, Just don't let your wife know that you are thinking about zirconium.  I haven't read this whole thread, but my hat is off to you for your interest in such arcane subjects.  If someone else hasn't mentioned it, I think in the old old days styli were often made of zirconium in lieu of diamond.  This goes back to the days of ceramic cartridges where the stylus was a separate entity, looked like a very short sewing needle with a fat end (and no hole for thread) where it fixed into the cartridge body, that could be removed from the cartridge body  and replaced by the end user when it wore out, which zirconium often did. This is how some of us in the modern era come to use the term "needle" when referring to an entire cartridge or to a stylus assembly.  Diamond styli were originally touted as a luxury feature of the best cartridges, and were really "needles".

mixupload, Broad generalizations such as the one you make are almost never bullet proof, and yours are riddled with holes.

Bullet holes! 

@mixupload

1. Weak magnets.

Samarium Cobalt in MM or Allnico magnets in MC are great.

2 .Low-quality enamel wire.

LC-OFC or PC-OCC wires are great.

3. The generator core is made of nail wire or plastic.

There are coreless design like FR-7Fz for example.

4. Cheap aluminum cantilever with sharpening Spherical, Cone, Ellipse.

Diamond, Ruby, Sapphire, Beryllium, Boron and even Ceramic cantilevers ... are widely used in the 70s -80s. Aluminum is the easiest to work with and preferable by many designers like Takeda, Ikeda in the past and Reto Adreoli in present time. Those are special treated aluminum, not like conventional aluminum cantilever in some cheap modern MM carts.

Regarding advanced profiles I want to remind you when Shibata was invented and widely used in many cartridges. Also VdH, F.Gyger, MicroRidge, MicroLine, FineLine, Parabolic, Stereohedron and related profiles are ALL from the 20th century and very popular in the 70s, 80s, 90s and today.


I do not use cartridges with conical tip at all ! I don’t like them.

5.The body is plastic,wooden.

Normally it’s metal, not plastic! Sometimes metal with ceramic or even sapphire base. What’s wrong with hardwood like african wood? Wood is excellent material for cartridge body (if you know how to work with wood, they know in Japan). Some modern mega expensive cartridges like ZYX by Nakatsuka-San are plastic (but it’s new, not old cartridges).

6. All parts are glued together.

What is glued together today is Stylus tip and Cantilever, but old method is press-fit (even for Boron). Also it was an old SONY cartridge designed with unique diamond/stylus combo made from one piece of diamond. This is an old technology, not new.

It’s a shame that some of the more experienced(most $)
are the biggest d*cks here.
also, post count does not = experience.
Have you thought of the reason why someone with a small amount of posts could be more experienced than others?
because some attitudes deter people from joining this forum. This place is so full of elitist know it alls it can be disgusting.