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Lyra Delos A truth teller or what?

My experience with the Lyra Delos has been good and to put it the best way too revealing?  So far my original vinyl sounds incredible, especially stuff from the Golden age of stereo.  Amazing to say the least.  However, newly remastered stuff sounds extremely overdone and in some cases unlistenable and I am talking about a lot of Classic reissues.  Is this just the way it will be or will this cartridge still relax a little as I only have roughly 50 hours or so on it?
tzh21y
tzh21y OP
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Where did you get the Van den Hul?  i agree the Benz and the Lyra are polar opposites.  I have been told that the Lyra needs well over 100 hours to settle down.  Thats a lot.  The Benz works well with newer recordings and the Lyra works really well with older vinyl, especially from the golden age.  The thing with the Lyra is it just about tracks anything perfectly.  Old records I thought were worn are obviously not.  I really love the sound of the benz but they just do not track very well on many recordings IME but they can sound just wonderful.
tzh21y OP
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The SME 20 is very good no doubt
tzh21y OP
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It will be interesting to hear your comparison to the Michell.  I really think that table can be just magical. 
keithr
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I found the Delos to sound a bit etched in my system. It was like they designed a cartridge to sound kinda digital.

Lyra is very system dependent and just wasn't good in mine. My friend has multiple Lyras, so go figure.

rossb
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Where did you get the Van den Hul?  

I bought the Black Beauty directly from a European dealer, and the Frog from a local dealer here in Australia.
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