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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? What causes skating forces is the fact that, with offset-angle tonearms, the LP groove pulls the stylus in two vectors at once. One vector is from the stylus to the tonearm pivot. The second vector is along the offset angle.These two vectors synth... | |
| Lyra Olympos SL: Discontinued? Hi Larry: Yes, assuredly we are. But being the engineering guy rather than the business guy, I don't know what the per-model trade-in values are.I am reasonably sure that the list of models vs. trade-in values has been put into circulation among t... | |
| Lyra Delos Settings Hi Agiaccio: The loading resistance for a low-impedance MC cartridge is related to the values of the capacitances between cartridge and phono stage (plus whatever amount is present at the phono stage input). The general rule of thumb is that, the ... | |
| Lyra Delos Settings Hi Agiaccio: How much capacitance does your tonearm cable have? Also, how much capacitance does the internal wiring inside your tonearm have?It would be nice if you could disable the capacitance at the phono stage completely, is this possible?I su... | |
| Is there a problem with my Lyra Delos cartridge? Hi Montgomery. If there is a problem with your Delos, we will be happy to check it and correct any problem that exists.Experience tells me that the problem is likely not with the cartridge. If the Delos does have a problem, it would almost certain... | |
| Lyra Olympos SL: Discontinued? Hi Rich: If your desire is for a beautiful-sounding, "feel-good" cartridge, the Olympos remains very attractive. My personal choice would be for the Atlas rather than the Olympos, but that is because I am interested in the maximum density or inten... | |
| Lyra Delos vs. Kleos? Dear Tom:Both the Delos and Kleos are "New Angle" cartridges, in which the signal coils are accurately aligned to the magnetic system when vertical tracking force is applied, and this technology is the basis for why they sound and perform better t... | |
| Lyra Olympos SL: Discontinued? Dear Rich:It is true that we have taken the Olympos out of our public product lineup, partly because supplies of pre-owned Parnassus appear to be nearly gone from the markets.However, we remain capable and willing to build an Olympos if there is a... | |
| Latest new generation Lyra Dear A.S.: Happy New Year to you too w(^o^)w!We don't have any plans to make specialty Atlas models for quite some time, and this would include both an Atlas SL (single-layer low output coils) version and a Mono version.The reason is simply that w... | |
| Latest new generation Lyra Hi Breezer: The Atlas works splendidly in the Kuzma 4 Point (grin).kind regards, jonathan | |
| surface noise and cartridge/ phono pre questions Ralph: I agree with everything that you have written above.All distortion is not equal to the ears, and higher odd-order distortion sounds increasingly obnoxious.Also, the character of the noise floor has a significant bearing on far into it the e... | |
| Latest new generation Lyra Hi Breezer: Oops, overlooked your post.We have tried the Atlas prototypes in-house with a variety of tonearms that includes the Phantom, but sadly not yet anything by Frank Kuzma.We will evaluate the Atlas in more tonearms when we get some breathi... | |
| Latest new generation Lyra We now have a full list of Atlas specifications up. Over the past few days the specifications page has alternately appeared and disappeared as we made and replaced various files and managed to break links as well as make them.Hopefully the specifi... | |
| surface noise and cartridge/ phono pre questions Ralph: The last time I could do a one-on-one comparison was more like 5 years back. And since then, I have also learned how to get the perceived s/n ratio down by a clearly perceivable margin, through more work on power supplies, parasitics optimi... | |
| Latest new generation Lyra Happy New Year to everyone!Compared to the Titan i, the Atlas is more immediate and has more presence, has wider dynamics, better imaging and soundstaging, sounds more refined, and seems more communicative of the musicians' intents (as in letting ... |