Soundsmith Rebuilt Lyra Skala MC Cartridge 0.5mV
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Soundsmith Rebuilt Lyra Skala MC Cartridge 0.5mV

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SKU:
LYRSKAR
UPC:
LYRSKA
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Certified Rebuilt by Soundsmith! Fully Tested & Inspected by Peter Ledermann, President/Chief Engineer at Soundsmith!
1 Year Warranty Included!

The Lyra Skala offers a new level of musical bloom, dynamics, and realism. Particularly notable is the almost undetectably low level of groove noise.

Technical Specifications

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 Ultra Low Mass Contact Stylus
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 resonances 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)
Recommended tonearms High-quality pivoted or linear (tangential) tonearms with rigid bearing(s), adjustable anti-skating force, preferably VTA adjustment

Warranty: 1 year

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