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Tracking error or ??

I was listening to my Lyra Kleos last night and on one of the most dynamic records that i own ( and best sounding) an Analogue Production Sonny Rollins Way out West LP; I noticed on the second side, which is very dynamic and has some serious high frequency extension, that there seemed to be a little distortion (or over loading) that i suspect is coming from the cartridge. The Kleos is tracking at the recommended 1.8 grams and my arm is usually pretty immune to miss-tracking ( as it uses a liquid bearing). Anyone else experience the same kind of thing with the Lyra's? I wonder if a higher tracking weight might be the answer, even though Lyra recommends an exact 1.8 grams?? 
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Experiment.
lower the arm/head shell weight to 1 gr. Then try other weights, and listen to the album. 
   Mine are recommended at 3+grams, nope, I play mine at about 1.75 up to 2 grams.  Sounds great to me.

    I used to use the Ortofon X5-MC- Great cartridge, low output.
one day I was wiping my TT, a piece of the cheesecloth, hooked the stylus, (PING) Cantilever gone, sent to Ortofon, said was my fault,…whatever, they gave me good credit for it, bought a nightclub II, and the Archiv (both Concorde) style.
never looked back.
amazing sound and reliability, …tracking is flawless with these.
recorded well over 300+ LPs’ using these 2 styli. Easy to swap, easy to set up for diff weight.

mess with the weight, til you find what works!

   Enjoy!
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