Anyone using a Lyra Delos yet?

>>06-26-10: Actusreus
The Delos must be in very high demand as I've been waiting for mine for about a month..... Any dealers here who could shed some light on the issue?

Most Lyra cartridges must be ordered in advance i.e. there is no existing stock to "pull from" in most cases.

I ordered my current supply of Delos and Kleos a few months ago.

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To date I've mounted Delos on Triplanar, Dynavector 507 Mk.II, SME M2-12R, and Hadcock 242.

Depending on phono stage, Pass XP-15, Steelhead, Esoteric E-03, it seems to perform best between 250 and 400 ohms.

YMMV

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>>11-27-10: Paperw8
i can say that the bass response from my setup is comparable to that of a cd player.<<

Huh?
No cd player can approach the bottom end of a properly set-up vinyl front end.

>>cartridges are consummables in that you have to replace them after a few years of use<<

Not true.
Most stylii should go 4000 hours (or more) if aligned correctly. You will need to listen for 5 1/2 hours every day for 2 years in order to reach 4000 hours. Most people come nowhere near that. In fact, the majority of audiophiles trade up or sell their cartridge before it needs re-tipping.

>>the idea of spending $10,000 for a cartridge that i will likely have to replace in a few years is like lighting cigars with $100 bills<<

And you probably should not unless your system is uber-sophisticated. There is no rhyme or reason to install a $10K cartridge on anything but a reference level table/arm. You wouldn't buy racing tires for a Taurus right?

>>11-28-10: Paperw8
that hasn't been my experience.<<

Fair enough.

You need more experience.

25 years of experience makes you a young man dodgealum.

There's plenty of time remaining to find it.

Good luck to you and the weight.

>>11-28-10: Paperw8
i would say that 100pf is a pretty good estimate for the total input capacitance value to use when you set your phono stage input load impedance<<

Actually due to the extremely-low self-inductance of a moving coil cartridge, capacitance is basically irrelevant.

This is the reason you seldom, if ever, see capacitance adjustments for moving coils on phono stages.

Please refer to my experience comments in previous post.

>>12-04-10: Dcarol
The fact that the Whest phonostages play MM is an aside as James says 'at this level people should be using MC'<<

That is pretentious BS on his part.

I own a half dozen moving magnets from the 70's and 80's that will kick the sh** out of many moving coils.

And I use them with far better phono preamps than his.

>>12-30-10: Robob
I am hearing some sibilance that probably should not be there so I may need to go to 1.8g as I am a bit below that.<<

This is undoubtedly a tonearm, not cartridge, related issue. Or the alignment is imprecise.

I track Kleos in 3 tonearms at 1.75g or less without any issues.

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