LYRA DELOS CARTRIDGE TOO BRIGHT, THIN AND SHRILL SOUNDING
Have had a Lyra Delos Cartridge for the last month and have any of you goners noticed a elevated treble, shrill thin bright sound from this Cartridge? I wish I had my HANA ML back. This Lyra sounds horrible!!!
But it isn’t tweaky and complex, if you establish a routine and follow it, and leave it alone once you have set it up to your satisfaction. It is tweaky and complex to people who cannot stop tweaking or who approach the issues inflexibly.
if the proper understanding of all parameters is done correctly there is no reason to be tweaky
there are 2 kinds of people I know . set correctly and done within the hour. or keep tweaking for months and months and years. guess which one sounds better? and why.
For reference I just learned something about my Delos the other night- A new recording was sounding especially bad- edgy and not fun to listen to. I experimented with everything. I made a nice improvement by lowering the gain on my phono preamp for the Delos to 52db down from 58db. 58db is just a touch too much for the .6mv Delos. 52 db is usually too little gain for a .6mv cartridge but it sounds fantastic, much better. Did not lose any dynamics either which was a surprise.
So it appears that the Delos likes gain on the low side for its output. Try it if you haven't already.
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