LYRA DELOS CARTRIDGE TOO BRIGHT, THIN AND SHRILL SOUNDING

I feel very bad for Jonathan Carr for stooping so low as to respond to the bottomless trench in which the OP obviously inhabits. These things develop so predictably. First what appears to be a reasonable plea for help and then a premeditated troll. I own a Lyra Etna Lambda and while value is relative, I know how superb it sounds and how much spine tingling hair-raised-up-on-the-back-of-the-neck thrill it gives me on a fairly routine basis. I also know how difficult it is for an Average Joe to properly set up a VPI arm with a microline stylus. But it is clear as the nose on Jimmy Durante's face (that dates me!) that the OP is either a troll or a victim of VPI's deficits or most likely, both. 

Let me be second in line for the Delos. I will absolutely buy it for $500 right now if @phill55 falls through. Please. There's no reason for you to put up with that POS cart. I guess I could put up with it for a little while. OK, $750 because I'm doing you a favor. I hate seeing this kind of disappointment among audiophiles. It's too sad for me to take. Fewer than 250 hours? OK, $850 then, just because I'm feeling charitable. I have 5 Lyras and a sixth would help remove them from the market where they're doing all this damage. I don't know why I thought they sound so fantastic in my system when clearly I was so dead wrong. PM me with your PayPal address and let's put an end to the disappointment.

fsonicsmith, I have forgotten more than you will ever know about high end audio. I have been in the hobby for not only 30 plus years but have sold the equipment in a high end store. I have sold VPI turntables and am proficient in setting up a unipivot arm. 

Please, let's not dump on @jeffvegas . Audio is a hobby, with the analog field being particularly so. There is nothing wrong with having strong opinions and personal preferences.

I would much rather have an audiophile who prefers MMs or MIs over MCs than an audiophile who doesn't listen to analog at all (smile).

Ideally Lyra would receive back the Delos and find something amiss with it that explains what Jeff is having to go through. But as things are right now, with no indication of impaired tracking, or channel separation, or LP grooves turning grey/white, the cause is a mystery.

@jcarr


while we have you here and helping, indeed advocating nice, can you look at the PM i sent you about Delos and a Triplaner. You marked my simple ? as “ spam “I asked Bruce H. my ever awesome dealer in San Diego and my recollection is he sent me to you.

Bruce gets fine sound out of a VPI with a Delos, top line tube phono / pre, SS Vandy amp and Kento speakers….best sound i have heard out of a unipivot…

so a vote for returning cart to Lyra for checkup