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Lyra Lydian B experience required

My rig is an Oracle Delphi Mk. V/SME 309/Goldring Eroica H into an E.A.R. 834P. With the help of postings on Audiogon, and after reading all available reviews, I'm nearly ready to commit to a Lyra Lydian Beta. I do have two reservations, though, which are as follows: this cartridge will be too unforgiving of poorly recorded albums, and a sound that will become too dry/sterile if I were to replace the SME 309 with a Graham 2.2 next year. Can anybody put my fears to rest? (Gmorris, if you read this, would you please let me know if any of your albums have suffered -- although you do have a Helikon if I remember correctly.)
sgh

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sgh OP
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Thanks for the advice. The EAR's MC section is loaded to between 10 and 100 ohms and the step-up transformer is -- as I understand it to be -- an 'autoformer' which is actually quite accommodating of cartridge impedances. If you're suggesting the cartridge works well around 100 ohms, then I don't suppose I should expect any misbehavin'!
Cheers, Shawn
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