Lyra Kleos Moving Coil Cartridge

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Product Information

The Kleos is the lowest cost Lyra cartridge to feature the full fledged Ogura manufactured boron cantilever and coil system with Lyra original line-contact (3 x 70μm) stylus. This is similar to what is employed on even the most expensive Lyra models.

Nevertheless, the most important element of the new Kleos is it's sound. We firmly believe that the Kleos is capable of extracting more information from the vinyl grooves than it's predecessors, and that the reproduction of music is both more dynamic, more detailed, and more natural than the models preceding it. We also are of the opinion that the Kleos will set a new standard for sonic performance at it's price point.

Today there are only a small handful of master cartridge builders in the world, and Lyra's Yoshinori Mishima belongs to this elite group of individuals that are capable of crafting the highest level MC transducers on the planet. His assistant Akiko Ishiyama, who has undergone several years of apprenticeship, is also involved in the building process leading to each Kleos. The Kleos is not only hand made, but each cartridge is listened to extensively and "voiced" by the master cartridge builder, like the finest musical instruments.

Lyra Kleos Moving Coil Cartridge Specifications

• Designer : Jonathan Carr
• Builder : Yoshinori Mishima (final build, testing), Akiko Ishiyama (preliminary build)
• Type : Medium weight, medium compliance, low-impedance moving coil cartridge
• Frequency range : 10Hz ~ 50kHz
• Channel separation : 35dB or better at 1kHz
• Cantilever system : Solid boron rod with Lyra-designed long footprint line-contact stylus (3um x 75um) and one-point suspension, directly mounted to cartridge body
• Coil : 6-N high-purity copper, 5.4ohms internal impedance, 9.0uH inductance Output voltage: 0.5mV@5cm/sec. (CBS test record, other test records may alter results)
• Compliance : Approx. 12x10 cm/dyne at 100Hz
• Vertical tracking angle : 20 degrees
• Cartridge body : One-piece machining from solid 7075 alloy billet, with reduced-surface higher-pressure headshell contact area, and resonance-controlling mechanism
• Cartridge weight (without stylus cover) : 8.8g
• Recommended tracking force : 1.6 ~ 1.75g
• Recommended load directly into MC phono input : 91ohms ~ 47kohm (determine by listening, or follow detailed guidelines included in user manual)
• Recommended load via step-up transformer : 5 ~ 15ohm (step-up transformer's output must be connected to 47kohm MM-level RIAA input)
• Recommended tonearm : High-quality pivoted or linear tangential) tone arm with rigid bearing(s), adjustable anti-skating force, preferably VTA