Lyra Skala medium output MC cartridge low hours
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| Ships from | Tehachapi, CA, 93561 |
| Ships to | Worldwide |
| Package dimensions | 6.0" × 6.0" × 6.0" (2.0 lbs.) |
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Lyra Skala medium output MC cartridge low hours
Lyra Skala MC cartridge for sale.
The cartridge is in very good condition with low 200 hours. The stylus and body is perfect.
It comes with all boxes, papers, stylus guard and mounting bolts.
The cartridge is way out of average Lyra boundaries. It is positioned well among absolutely best audio craftsmanship samples.
Specifications:
- Designer: Jonathan Carr
- Builder: Yoshinori Mishima
- Type: Medium weight, medium compliance, low-impedance moving coil cartridge
- Stylus: Lyra-designed long-footprint variable-radius line-contact nude diamond (3um x 70um), slot-mounted
- Cantilever system: Solid boron rod with short one-point wire suspension, directly mounted into cartridge vertical pillar
- Coils: 2-layer deep, 6N high-purity copper, square-shaped chemically-purified high-purity iron former, 5.4ohm self-impedance, 9.1uH inductance
- Output voltage: 0.5mV@5cm/sec., zero to peak, 45 degrees (CBS test record, other test records may alter results)
- Frequency range: 10Hz ~ 50kHz
- Channel separation: 35dB or better at 1kHz
- Compliance: Approx. 12 x 10-6cm/dyne at 100Hz
- Vertical tracking angle: 20 degrees
- Cartridge body: Two-piece composite structure, each piece controlling resonance within the other: Vertical “pillar” is one-piece machining from spring-grade phosphor bronze solid billet, with reduced-surface higher-pressure headshell contact area; horizontal “body” is one-piece machining from high-loss polymer, with threaded brass inserts for mounting screws
- Cartridge mounting screws: 2.6mm 0.45 pitch JIS standard
- Distance from mounting holes to stylus tip: 9.5mm
- Cartridge weight (without stylus cover): 9g
- Recommended tracking force: 1.65 ~ 1.75g
- Recommended load directly into MC phono input: 95.3ohm ~ 816ohm (determine by listening)
- 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)
New $4500
Sell $1750
Paypal fees are 3% for USA buyers 5% for foreign.
Shipping $10 USA, Europe $24, Asia $25. Shipping to Canada is $23 first class USPS(tracking apply).
Questions for the seller |
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| Same compatibility questions I have for the Helicon. Is 60db gain enough for it or is a step-up transformer needed?
How does the sound of this differ from the Helicon or a Soundsmith Zephyr?
Hello,
The gain 60db is good even for 0.1-0.2 mV.
This cartridges have output of 0.5 mV. It would be perfect. You wouldn't stress it more than half way.
As for compliance- both cartridges are in a sweet spot for almost any modern VPI tonearms. The VPI arms effective mass form 7.7g to 12g. The Skala and Helikon right on the spot.
Skala has better dynamics than Helikon. Images are focused and the same as Helikon. They are both similar soundpattern, but as I said Skala is more alive. Zephyr has muddy mids, flat soundstage and it's way below both Lyras.
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