LYRA DELOS CARTRIDGE TOO BRIGHT, THIN AND SHRILL SOUNDING

IMPORTANT NOTE TO ALL >>>READ THIS POST BY OP

After nearly throwing the LYRA DELOS in the garbage, a swap out of phono preamps have vindicated this fine cartridge. The BAT VK P12 phono preamp has transformed the LYRA into a game changer. I retract all previous statements about this Cartridge other than it I do believe it sounds best with tubes or EXTREMELY high end solid state with FET's. Music now floats effortlessly without grain, without harshness and full of detail. The Lyra tracks beautifully and is nearly as quiet as digital( no clicks and pops). jeffvegas07-14-2021 1:06pm Report this

What a fiasco.

Bagged the Lyra Delos for days, tells us he has forgotten more than most of us have ever known about audio, apparently used to sell audio gear.

Perhaps @jeffvegas you could offer a sincere apology to @jcarr for the 100's of thousands of folk who will read your ill advised synopsis of the Lyra Delos, probably costing him sales in a very tough shrinking market where anyone who produces audio products should be encouraged, not have their products unfairly derided.

It might be in the best interests and fairness for Lyra if you asked the moderators to delete this thread altogether.

In fairness to you @jeffvegas at least you have admitted the mistakes made,

@dover  +1  Words matter....whether they are true or not, once written they become real.  People have a responsibility here when they post - keep in mind the impact on other's livelihood.  

atmosphere, I had an Electron Kinetics Eagle 2 on the bottom of the 4a's. Your amps while sonic champions in the midrange, suck in the bass department.

I've had the Eagle in my own system at home. I can see why people liked it at the time- as solid state amps of the period went it was pretty smooth (but not as smooth as a good tube amp). But as to playing deeper bass- on my speakers (Classic Audio Loudspeaker model T-3; flat right to 20Hz) I found myself turning up the volume to try get more impact out of the Eagle - despite its power and the 98dB efficiency of the CALs, the Eagle simply couldn't match a set of our M-60s in the bass department - on that speaker.


Different speakers might and will get different results. If you sold our gear, you would know how important getting the right match is. For this reason, I suspect that you didn't sell our gear at all. At best, my suspicion is  that you had a trade-in and simply didn't know how to show the amp off in its best light. None of the ARC stuff of that period could really play the bass right; IMO it didn't have the bandwidth needed (full power to 2 Hz).


This is easy to suss: what dealership did you work for?

@dover  +1, absolutely!  My Delos is an excellent cartridge and I highly regard it as an integral component of my system.  I fully agree, this thread should be deleted altogether.  

Yes, delete the thread.