Is LP distortion the record or the cartridge?


Or maybe something else? On dynamic peaks, even at fairly low volume, the sound breaks up and produces distortion.
The first thought is that the cartridge is not properly tracking. Am using a Miyajima Shalabi, Tri-planar arm and Woodsong Garrard 301. Fairly new to serious analog and TTs, I hear the phrase “compliance” but not really sure what that is all about. I do know that the arm and the cartridge need to be compatible.
mglik

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you need a new reference disc in good shape and the inventor of your phono stage weighed in a few posts ago....
Lyra is a great match w Triplaner. i run a Delos on a Triplaner on a Brinkmann with a HRS base. i think you should have Lyra setup correctly....

btw that Lyra is super fantastic, some of the best sound i have heard