LYRA DELOS CARTRIDGE TOO BRIGHT, THIN AND SHRILL SOUNDING

It IS possible that Jeff has been out in the Las Vegas heat for far too long, thus frying his brain and making him cranky.  Jeff, apologize to Atmasphere.  He is too good for you, and you don't know what you are talking about if you criticize his amplifiers based on bandwidth and bass response, provided the speaker is a good match. Beyond that, you don't know anything about tube electronics if you don't know the potential bandwidth of a properly set up triode.  Allen Wright was able to measure a bandwidth out to 750kHz with his RTP3C tube preamplifier.  What limits the bandwidth of a typical transformer-coupled tube amplifier is the transformer, the absence of which is the core advantage of OTL amplifiers like those made by Atmasphere.

Also, I am extremely hard on Cartridges due to having a few beers and getting clumsy with the tonearm.

So I assume there is absolutely no way that your clumsiness with the tonearm could have rotated some Moving Coil armatures off their axis or other related damage.  Indeed, the problem must be the cart (rolling eyes).

I humbly request that no one bother responding to this guy's companion thread he just started. The first rule at the zoo is don't feed the animals. 

But will he come back to this thread and apologize to Mr. Carr for throwing a tantrum like a middle school girl....

I guess we'll see

 Mr Atmospheres's amps were the best I had on my Vandersteen 4a's back in the day. That was a bi amped loudspeaker with an external electronic crossover. The Atmosphere OTL's smoked Conrad johnson, BAT and Quicksilver which at the time was the only tube gear we had in the store. They could not do bass well though. midrange and highs were magical.  I used an Eagle 2a for the subwoofers in the Vandersteens.  That amp could do bass. I meant no criticism to him. The guy knows what he is doing. Has been designing great amps for years.   Look at my updated post on the Lyra as well. I brought home a new phono preamp and a VPI guru to check the Lyra out.  The system ROCKS now. Total musical orgasm.