Lyra Titan i

For Sale: Lyra Titan i.  I will pay paypal fee and insured UPS shipping to a US address!

I had bought this cartridge and mounted it on
a Clearaudio Universal.  After ~300
hours, the stylus fell out of the cantilever.   Lyra replaced the stylus under warranty.  So this is a cartridge with zero hours
on the stylus.  In the meantime,
because if took some time for it to be repaired (it had to be send to Japan), I
had replaced it with a Harmony 9000. 
Of the two I, love the Titan  best, but I can’t afford two high end cartridges.
 The Lyra has just been sitting in
a box for a while, so I decided it time for someone to get a great deal on a
more or less new Titan i.  
All of the pics are of the actual cart.  I will ship UPS Ground but only to US addresses.  Paypal only. 

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Designer: Jonathan Carr

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Builder: Yoshinori Mishima

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Type: Medium weight, medium compliance,
low-impedance moving coil cartridge

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Stylus: Lyra-designed long-footprint
variable-radius line-contact nude diamond (3um x 70um), slot-mounted

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Cantilever system: Diamond-coated solid boron rod
with short one-point wire suspension, directly mounted into cartridge body via
high-pressure knife-edge system

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Coils: 2-layer deep, 6N high-purity copper,
square-shaped chemically-purified high-purity iron former, 5.4ohm self-impedance,
8.8uH inductance

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Output voltage: 0.5mV@5cm/sec., zero to peak, 45
degrees (CBS test record, other test records may alter results)

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Frequency range: 10Hz ~ 50kHz

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Channel separation: 35dB or better at 1kHz

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Compliance: Approx. 12 x 10-6cm/dyne at 100Hz

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Vertical tracking angle: 20 degrees

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Cartridge body: One-piece machining from solid
titanium billet, with non-parallel shaping, and body threaded directly for
mounting screws

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Cartridge mounting screws: 2.6mm 0.45 pitch JIS
standard

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Distance from mounting holes to stylus tip: 9.5mm

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Cartridge weight (without stylus cover): 10.5g

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Recommended tracking force: 1.65 ~ 1.75g

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Recommended load directly into MC phono input:
95.3ohm ~ 816ohm (determine by listening)

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Recommended
load via step-up transformer: 5 ~ 15ohm (step-up transformer's output must be
connected to 10kohm ~ 47kohm MM-level RIAA input, preferably via short,
low-capacitance cable)