Originally Posted by
Lazyass
A professional wheel builder told me that aluminum is no more prone to breaking than brass. The only real advantage of brass is that it's harder to accidentally round them off with a spoke wrench and they cost less.
I've switched to using a splined round spoke nipples not square which a lot of high-end prebuilt wheels tend to use. Other upside to aluminum is color.
Originally Posted by
dsbrantjr
Brass is also much less likely to corrode and freeze onto the spoke.
Also hasn't been a problem for me. Copper anti-sieze on the Ti spokes, spoke prep on the steel spokes.