Delos Loading

I load my Delos at 100ohms and it sounds wonderful. 120ohms should be fine.

Thank you all for your responces,looking forward
to hearing the Delos in my system.
A friend who has many cartridges including the Ortofon A 90
really loves the way the Delos makes music,compared to quite a few very expensive transducers,

I use a Delos on my Rega P9. I started with a 100 ohms loading (C2300 preamp - allows me to adjust loading with remote from seating/listening position)and settled on 200 ohms. The US distributor for Lyras suggested 500 ohms loading.

Agreed Miner42....this sounds pretty consistent with what Dealers recommend. My local Dealer asserted they would "never use a Lyra with less than 470 ohms", but it really depends on the sum of the capacitance of your phono stage, ext phono cable and internal (tonearm) phono cable. For many setups 100 ohms will be a safe setting.

(FWIW I'm using 220 ohms)

Phonostage A with 100Ω hasn't the same sonic result like Phonostage B
with 100Ω. It is a endless discussion, best you can do, try your setting
and what you like best, that's it. When you buy a new Phonocable, you can roll
the dice again.
The better your Phonostage is, the higher you can go (1kΩ-47kΩ),
less loading, less coloration (when you step down from 1k to 300, 200, 100 ...-
-> the higher frequencies are more and more dampened, sound gets slow and
dull but a lot of Preamps deliver a listenable result that way :-)
The majority of Phonostages are not listenable above 1kΩ, but this isn't a
technical fact, it is the limited knowledge of Designers to get a proper solution.
That's the reason for the recommendation: 100Ω - 47kΩ
(That means: it doesn't matter what you have, thank you for buying our
cartridge)