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| New Lyra Delos Cartridge Hi Rene: Normally I wouldn't recommend a step-up transformer with the Delos unless your phono either has low gain or good overload margin. The 0.6mV output from the Delos is high enough that it caused clipping when we matched it up with a Nagra BP... | |
| Brinkmann Bardo AFAIK, the first direct-drive turntable to be launched as a product was not from Dual, but Technics - the SP-10 (Mk.I), which was introduced in 1969.It could be that there were other direct-drives predating this, but at least I've not heard of any... | |
| Spiral Groove Centroid tonearm Both the Centroid and the new-generation Lyra cartridges (Delos and Kleos) were designed partly with each other in mind.There's the obvious stuff such as working well together and sounding good, but there's another key feature, which is a built-in... | |
| Anyone using a Lyra Delos yet? Clabe: For the Delos (and Kleos), the nominal distance between mounting screwholes and stylus is now 9.68mm (+/- 0.141mm). This is with rated tracking force (1.75g) applied. (Note that there is a possibility that the nominal 9.68mm distance may be... | |
| Steelhead vs LP2 etc with Revel Krell and Sota Mavare: Apologies for the delay in responding - I need to fulfill my daily production and design responsibilities, and this particular period is even crazier than normal (since we are still scrambling to prepare for the commencing of Kleos shipmen... | |
| Anyone using a Lyra Delos yet? Jaspert: if you think there is a problem, put the cartridge back into the box, put in a label that says "low rider", and give it back to your dealer so that they can send it back to us.We will be happy to take a look at it and address anything whi... | |
| Mono cartridge classification Hesson11. No problem. Glad to be of help. I am lucky to be in a position where I can do my own controlled experiments, and decide if previously-published literature is worth accepting or not (smile).The Dorian uses a 2.5x75um microridge for both t... | |
| Mono cartridge classification As seen from the front, the 70~75um radius stylii that we (Lyra) use on our mono cartridges are anything but narrow, and are intended to "fill up" the LP groove as completely as possible without requiring a fiendishly accurate setup which would be... | |
| Steelhead vs LP2 etc with Revel Krell and Sota Small update.A Kleos (from the first production run) will be demonstrated in Munich. I believe that this will be in a room shared with Fast Audio and AMR.I've continued to work flat-out on the graphics and page layouts for the packaging. I'd estim... | |
| try an entry level Lyra to hear house sound? Lloyd:If you did try out a Lyra (and I'm not necessarily saying that it would be right for your ears and your system), I'd suggest the Delos rather than the Dorian. The Delos introduces new asymmetrical damper technology, and *partly* as a result,... | |
| Lyra Olympos vs Parnassus naked original version While the Parnassus and Olympos share the same magnetic circuit, that's the only thing that they share. Everything else is different.The stylus shape is different, the cantilever material is different, the coils are different, the dampers and susp... | |
| Steelhead vs LP2 etc with Revel Krell and Sota Hi Russ:The Kleos has the same electrical parameters as the Helikon. Output voltage 0.5~0.6mV at 5cm/sec (JVC test record), 5.4 ohm coil DCR, 9.9uH coil inductance.I'd suggest using a tonearm cable with as little capacitance as possible, because t... | |
| Clavis Soundsmith retip Syntax, there are various components other than a stylus in a cartridge that change over time. The suspension wire gradually develops a "set" (the same reason why some cartridges ride lower and lower to the LP, or need less VTF as they grow older)... | |
| Arm geometry and null points Halcro, I share the same opinion as Jfd01. Probably Yip simply doesn't know what alignment was used for the design of each of your tonearms.A 9 inch arm and 12 inch that are both designed for Lofgren A alignment will have the same null radii.OTOH,... | |
| Arm geometry and null points Halcro, I normally look at the tonearm alignment situation from the other direction. Lofgren A, Lofgren B, Stevenson and other alignments can be said to be a set of null points at specific radii that are selected (usually by the tonearm designer, ... |