LYRA DELOS CARTRIDGE TOO BRIGHT, THIN AND SHRILL SOUNDING

"When I heard a Demo of the Delos it was on an all tube system. Mine is solid state. There is the problem. I would not recommend this cartridge to anyone unless you have tubes which roll of highs and add body and warmth to the sound. "

Perhaps your tonearm is not damped enough.  It takes a while to dial it in.  Try a lower tracking force.

There is the problem. I would not recommend this cartridge to anyone unless you have tubes which roll of highs and add body and warmth to the sound.

We spec our all-tube phono section to 100KHz. Tubes can go much higher; color TVs in the old days had to have 10MHz response in their chroma amps... bandwidth isn't the issue! Tubes can go just as high as transistors.

MC's are COMPLETELY overrated. 

Just for the record (if you'll pardon the expression) your Hana is a MC cartridge as well. That's not the problem.

Since the Hana worked so well for you, I'd be inclined to think that there may be a problem with the cartridge itself, which can happen- its happened to me in the past. Before you sell it off at a loss, take it back to the dealer and have it checked out or replaced. I would also check with Lyra to make sure your arm is considered compatible with the cartridge. The cartridge has compliance and the arm has mass; together they make up something called 'mechanical resonance' and that must fall between 7-12Hz or Bad Things happen.

My ortofon 2m black blew the Hana and Lyra out of the water!!!  MOVING COILS ARE HIGHLY OVERRATED.. Tubes cannot have frequency extension like a transistor.  Mr Atmosphere, I sold your amps back in the 90's at a dealer in Southern California.  Had a pair of your OTL's running the top of my Vandersteen 4a's. Nice amps, but they were NOT a neutral sounding amp and DID NOT HAVE the air and transparency of their solid state equivalent.  

As a matter of fact I hope some designer builds a balls to the wall Moving Magnet. Like a 5k dollar moving magnet. I'll buy it. 

Are we beginning to smell the troll yet......?