I can’t help but notice a difference between the cantilever in the 2M Black vs. the Quintet Black. The 2M is Ortofon’s primary moving magnet cartridge series, and the Quintet is their new lower-cost low output moving coil series. The Black is the top cartridge in each line. Both feature the Shibata stylus. Yet, the Quintet has a solid boron cantilever which is quite lightweight and rigid, where the 2M Black has an aluminum tube, and a fat one at that. Seems to me the stylus tip can’t overcome the mass of that heavier cantilever. Given the price point of both cartridges, I can only wonder why the 2M doesn’t have the boron cantilever. It should.