Based in Tokyo, LYRA is headed by Stig Bjorge from Norway,
with American design engineer Jonathan Carr, and Japanese
master craftsman Yoshinori Mishima making cartridges and
supervising production. All products are manufactured in
Japan with microscopic attention to detail under the direct
supervision of these three.
LYRA products are characterized by advanced design
engineering allied with Japanese artisanal craftsmanship
and build quality.
Each new product is designed from the ground and up and
introduces meaningful industry-leading advances.
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Lyra Atlas MC Phono Cartridge
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Introducing the ATLAS, the world's first asymmetric MC phono cartridge. The Atlas is Lyra's new flagship. It is also the first time that anyone has made an asymmetrically structured phono cartridge. Why asymmetric? Because, by literally misplacing the barriers to great sound that are present in every other cartridge today, it confers a number of important performance benefits. First, having differently-shaped structures on the left and right sides suppresses the formation of standing waves inside the cartridge body, thereby creating a less resonant, more neutral cartridge body. Second, the asymmetric construction offsets the front magnet carrier and its associated mounting system so that it is no longer in line with the cantilever assembly. Doing so opens up a direct, solid path between the cantilever assembly and tonearm headshell so that vibrations from the cantilever can be quickly drained away once they have been converted into electrical signals, again suppressing resonances.
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Lyra Kleos MC Phono Cartridge
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The New Angle on LP Reproduction, Level 2:
The Lyra Kleos MC Phono Cartridge Although many MC cartridges have good performance, their sound is held back by how they are designed. The problem is, the signal coils should have the same angle as the magnetic circuit during playback, but MC cartridges are typically designed so that the opposite happens - applying normal tracking force pushes the coils out of alignment. This impairs coil sensitivity and linearity, and reduces sound quality.
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Lyra SPT Stylus Performance Treatment / Cleaner
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The Lyra SPT’s primary function is straightforward - by helping to keep your cartridge's stylus scrupulously clean, it assists tracking and minimises damage to your records and cartridge.
Unlike any other stylus cleaner, Lyra employed extensive listening tests during the development process of SPT. Not only will it work well with their own Lyra models, but you will find that it offers a significant sonic boost to other high-performance cartridge designs as well.
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Lyra Helikon Moving Coil Cartridge
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The Lyra Helikon is the first cartridge of Scan-Tech's fourth-generation design architecture. [...] The Helikon's most notable advance is in the elimination of as much conductive material as possible from the vicinity of the generator and gap. [This design allows] a more useable output level [...] while maintaining the accurate reproduction of atmosphere, musical timbre and detail that has become the hallmark of all Lyra phono cartridges.
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Lyra Delos MC Cartridge
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The New Angle on LP Reproduction: Introducing the Lyra Delos MC Phono Cartridge (Argo i replacement).
An analog LP played back with an MC cartridge can sound exceptionally good. Yet, it is a surprising fact that the design of conventional MCs restricts the sound quality that can be achieved from LPs.
An essential factor for proper operation of an MC cartridge is the angle between the magnetic circuit, signal coils and core. Performance is optimal when the angles are all aligned, but any significant difference in the angles will cause the formation of a strong and directional flux that will flow constantly from the magnetic circuit into the signal core. This directional magnetic flux will orient the core toward a specific direction and make it impossible for the core to move with equal ease in all directions, which is necessary for proper cartridge performance.
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Lyra Skala Moving Coil Phono Cartridge
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Lyra designer Jonathan Carr does it again! Introducing the 5th Generation of Lyra Cartridge design: The Lyra Skala! The Skala is a major advance in phono cartridge technology. Material selection, body design and stylus/cantilever assembly have all been thoroughly improved. The voicing of this new cartridge is much more natural and closer in tonality to the Lyra Titan. Our highest recommendation!
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Lyra Titan i Moving Coil Cartridge
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'The Ultimate Reference Cartridge!' The Titan(i) is the most sophisticated cartridge Lyra has ever designed. The very first time you drop the stylus into the grooves, you know you are listening to something very special. The Titan i is the perfect marriage of thunderous dynamics and pure delicacy; in one word: GLORIOUS! This cartridge portrays the essence of live music: true-to-life scale and perspective, tonal accuracy of real instruments, the most overall cohesive musical presentation possible. Michael Fremer called the Titan i 'the least mechanical sounding, most lyrical and liquid sounding cartridge he's ever heard from anyone at any price!' In HiFi+, Roy Gregory wrote that 'the Titan i is a genuine flagship product that towers over the rest, delivering unprecedented musicality and forgiving of all but the most extreme surface damage.' It may sound strange to call a £2294 + VAT phono cartridge a great value, but after playing just one of your favorite LPs, you too, will be a believer! It takes many hours of tireless labor to hand-build and voice every Titan(i),
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Lyra Helikon SL Moving Coil Cartridge
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The Helikon SL is a special low-output version of the regular Lyra Helikon. It is exclusively intended for use with phono preamplifiers with particularly high gain and low noise. It should only be chosen over the regular Helikon when it is absolutely sure the phono amp (or phono preamplifier/transformer combination) will be capable of handling its low output with satisfactory S/N ratio and resolution. Like the regular Helikon it is a medium-weight, medium-compliance cartridge, and was designed for use with high-quality tonearms that allow the cartridge/ tonearm low-frequency resonant point to fall between 8 - 12Hz. Avoid tonearms with loose or overly tight bearings, and avoid those with undamped lift mechanisms, since these can "drop"the cartridge onto the record and shorten the lifespan of the suspension. The tonearm output cables should be connected to a dedicated phono preamplifier or phono input on a preamplifier designed for direct use by a low-output MC cartridge (0.22mV output voltage or less).
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Lyra Dorian Moving Coil Cartridge
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The Absolute Sound Phono Cartridge of the Year Winner - 2006!
The Lyra Dorian is the newest, entry-level cartridge in a line of the world’s finest phono cartridges. Very similar in design to the Argo, the Dorian is designed for lower priced systems which usually require a bit more output. Exceeding all expectations for a sub £500 MC cartridge, the Dorian is rich and musical without compromising the detail retrieval for which Lyra is renowned. Finally, the famous Lyra sound is within most any analog lover’s budget! Completely hand-built (like every other Lyra model), Mr. Mishima personally adjusts and checks every single Dorian before giving it the Lyra seal of approval.
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Lyra Argo i Moving Coil Cartridge
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The Argo is the new entry-level model from Lyra, and replaces the discontinued Lydian Beta. [...] Technology-wise [...], the Argo shares practically nothing in common with the Lydian Beta. Rather than thinking of the Argo as an upgraded Lydian, it is more appropriate to consider the Argo as a simplified Helikon - with different physical geometry, different metallurgy and alternative voicing.
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Discontinued
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