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RE: Geez! AND Crap!.....

Posted by beach cruiser on August 3, 2022 at 16:53:35:
Sorry to hear you experienced the almost inevitable human error. on the other hand, if people never made mistakes, there would be no baseball.

Crap like that, along with a much less demanding amplification requirement in a hyper critical area, is one reason I stuck with a MM cart when seemingly everyone with good sense went to moving coil designs.

It also helped that I had a fine moving magnet cart with the additional record preserving benefit of a low tracking force that moving coils can't match.

I still prefer the moving cross design's sound, used in a high style cart I used to run, and that sound smith adopted for its carts, but it required a holder to adapt to regular arms. Besides, I could get a top of the line latest greatest shure for cheap in the electronic sales area of New York, back when I occasionally traveled there.

When I snapped off the tip of a shure cart, I was able to investigate the properties of beryllium, a still popular stylus cantilever material, although shure used it in a foil tube, instead of the heavier solid rods used today. working with the beryllium foil caused worker death, so today it's rods only.

The material had a fibrous quality when broken, exhibiting little, almost white, fibers when separated , like asbestos or some thin crystalline rock structures, and didn't have any observable bend before breaking.

I was always intregued by the use of a cactus needle that sound smith employs in one design, but couldn't justify the cost with my needs. I would hope it less brittle than the other more commonly used materials, and might provide the additional benefit of increased durability when mistakes happen, in addition to the benefits stated by sound smith.

I used to wonder if sound smith would go the way of many small firms that eventually go away after the inevitable loss of the main guy, but it seems they have grown past that concern. I still lust after the strain gauge stuff, but sound smith is not bashful about the price they ask for such a unique product.