@lewm when I am discussing the new Lyra cartridges with the new angle technology designs, set up is ultra critical. Get it even the slightest bit incorrect and the performance suffers. This really is not the case with the typical MM cartridge, which is perhaps where we would agree. I am not aware of any MM cartridge that employs the new angle technology…
Brand new Lyra Delos - skewed cantilever
Hi everybody, first of all thanks for the very insightful tips I've been able to gather over years of thread reading.
Today I am finally starting my own thread to ask a question about a brand new Lyra Delos I received this week. This is my first ever cart over 1K and I was expecting something amazing.
Well, the sound is indeed amazing! Even though after 2h30 of cart usage I am still struggling to find some meat to the bones. Sound is VERY precise but I expect it to become even better as hours go by.
However, as soon as I started aligning the cart I found the cantilever went slightly to the left. I have asked my dealer about this and he said it was nothing to worry about but I was hoping to get somebody's opinion on the forum, maybe even Jonathan Carr's. I have included photos.
Thanks a lot for your help everyone!
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Thanks a lot everyone for chiming in. I reset tonearm angle (SME IV), made sure that the arm was parallel to the record surface, and the rest. I also reset azimuth which was a bit off, but that is the difficult thing with the SME. No record has skipped since then, but I am going to go through my collection before trying the two faulty records again. |
@lewm is correct. Any cartridge including the Lyra can be out a bit and most if not all of us would not notice it. I think the major determinant of how import proper set up is is the type of stylus. The effect of the set up being off would be loss of very high frequencies and smearing of the image. @anthos314, maybe it is just the records? |
Mijo and davey, Just to be clear, I am not claiming that set-up is not important. I am just saying that the gross malfunctions experienced by the OP would usually not be due to small errors in geometry, regardless of the stylus shape. Also, I forgot to mention groove tortuosity as another factor that affects the magnitude of the skating force, but that doesn't matter here. I really think something is hanging up the tonearm, maybe the wiring, if not also a pivot bearing problem. Sometimes these issues are easy to hear but hard to find. |
@lewm : your message gave me an epiphany this morning and I checked the arm lift. It was set too high, so my raising the tonearm by one fraction of an inch the other day actually made things better because of that. So I guess there is no mystery anymore! However the two problematic records I have still skip, possibly because of a tiny groove wall rip which the hana sl could not go through (too big a needle). I’d love to repair that but have no equipment. Shame though, everywhere else they’re fantastic records. |
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