Lyra Delos A truth teller or what?

Ask yourself whether you're in love with a rising top end, common to MC cartridges, or with a truly extended hf response.
Also, if lowest tip mass is paramount, we should all be listening to MI or induced magnet types.

tzh, I would have thought that the Cardas cables would somewhat mitigate any tendency for the Lyra(s) to sound "clinical".  Cardas ICs and speaker cables tend to the Benz view of things, in my own experience on my system.  For me also, however, the Cardas wires tended to enforce a certain blandness or sameness.  (Obviously, this is a completely subjective opinion. Anyone else is free to have a different one.)  

In my mind, the Benz cartridges and most any Lyra cartridge are polar opposites, in terms of the words I might use to characterize the two brands.  This is not to say that you can't like both.  I find both to be too "biased" (for want of a better word) on the opposite sides of the spectrum,  in the way in which they play music; one can be a bit "clinical" (Lyra) and the other tends to the euphonic (Benz).  Although I have heard the Benz LPS on a very fine system (underwhelming IMO), I must admit that I have not heard the latest, greatest Lyra TOTL cartridges. My neighbor, who sold the Benz LPS in order originally to buy ZYX UNIverse(s) (he had 3 in rapid succession), now has a Lyra Etna.  I must go listen to it, not that I would ever spend that much.