LYRA DELOS CARTRIDGE TOO BRIGHT, THIN AND SHRILL SOUNDING

@jeffvegas 
Even small changes in tracking force should alter the sound of the Delos quite a bit, which suggests that your current setup has not managed to extract all of the performance that the Delos has to offer.

Nonetheless, I wish you the best of luck with whatever you replace it with.

kind regards, jonathan carr

Jeff, Tube phono stages per se do not "roll off" highs.  Perhaps a tube phono stage may have an audio bandwidth out to 100kHz.  Whereas a solid state equivalent might go out even farther, but you are not going to hear that particular difference.  You'd be more likely to hear a difference in bass definition, but such generalities are dangerous if taken as gospel.

What the OP is describing sounds more like a poor setup.  Tracking force too light, VTA way off, arm mass way too light.  

Nothing can fix a poor setup except improving to a good setup.  That's why there are turntable setup specialists.  

Jeff - do you understand jcarr IS Lyra ?…

also, i have a $3k Herron ( FET and Tubes ) that is magic with a Delos….