Ideal SUT for Lyra Olympos cartridge?

Btw, that does not means in any way Syntax is " correct ". As you with those 20 years using Ikeda wire many of us choosed to live in the " error " for months as Syntax or years like you.

IMHO all of us has the right and the desire to learn and grow-up.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Frontier1,
I'm fully with Rauliruegas on this one!
Excuse this crazy question but have you tried the Lyra straight into the MM input of your Shindo? This might give you a taste of how good a non-SUT setup can be? I do not doubt that there a great SUTs out there but they are few and far between(probably expensive too, + extra interconnect cost)), I personally never came across one.
I have a 0.28mV MC Colibri which I ran for a year into the ARC Ref Phono MC input (built-in Jensen SUT, 69db gain). Not sure what alcohol or drug I was on one night but I tried it into MM (48db gain) and up to this day I can't believe how much better it is. Yes there's a bit more hiss but the sound, OMG! So I'm now looking for a higher output Colibri. For half the cost of a great SUT I suspect you can finance an upgrade/crossgrade to a good non-SUT valve higher gain phono stage, maybe. BTW it also wouldn't suprise me if a cheaper higher output Lyra sounds better straight into MM than your current cart through an SUT...

Dear Frontier1, uuuhhps - I forgot: - of course, only Raul is right, constantly learning, constantly growing-up (god - he must be tall by now !) and he is the one only "objective" source of information here on Audiogon.
Forget my remark about an experienced owner of the Olympos with a high gain phono stage and many SUTs.
Forget too about all the technical synergies between a moving coil and the corresponding inductance of the matching transformer (SUT).
Go put your Olympos direct into your MM stage .... ;^) ... and live happy ever after.
Enjoy,
D.

Well, Raul, I think, I forgot more about High Quality analog reproduction you will ever learn. Live in peace with MM Cartridges. That's your Standard and that's ok.
cheers!

Dear Syntax/Dertonarm: Some of the audio learning curve " stages/steps " where both of you are and where I'm are different and nothing wrong with this because almost each one of us have their very specific Audio Learning Curve Status/Level.

Both of you still are on SUTs, heavy mass TTs, LOMC cartridges, tubes, vintage tonearms and the like.

I already been in all those audio " subjects/stages/steps " where I enjoyed each one of them at maximum and where I ( like Dertonarm posted. ) learned a lot and in deep in each one " stage ".

IMHO I'm an empirical audio " researcher " and as you know a person that likes audio " adventures out of the box ". This IMHO healthy attitude permit me over the time to grow-up and improve on almost any audio area where you ( sooner or latter ) will be in the future.

I, in no way, have any " orientation " by any reason to support in deep audio technology or audio items that already " get out of time/expire " for me due to a better audio options.
Don't you think that this learning process was a " fast track " one, no it takes a lot of years of enjoyment ( at each item stage. ), tests, tests and more tests: tests/experiences over a wide of audio systems different from mine. I take audio and music very seriously always.

Yes, right now I left behind all those " stages " that you both support because I learned that there are way better " roads " and audio technology to improve any system quality performance level.

Right now I support that digital could and can outperform the analog experience and for many people this can't be: I have to be wrong.
I understand why the persons could think in this way because they and their audio systems are in a different ALCS.

In the future you as many other analog oriented persons will agree that digital is not the " way to go " but another great and unexpected " way to go ".

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.