Lyra Kleos SL
Product Code: LYC013SL
£3,095.00
ex-vat: £ 2,579.17
The Lyra Kleos SL is a special version of the standard Kleos, but with a single layer (hence, the “SL” designation) of coils, resulting in lower mass.
Lyra describes the SL series as follows:
For expert users with very high-gain, extra low noise phono stages, or alternatively a step-up transformer designed for phono cartridges of 2 – 3 ohms or less… [It] may provide extra pure and pristine sound from an audio system that is optimised for a low-impedance, low-output cartridge. However, this may be accompanied with a lesser level of energy and power.
If weight of sound and dynamics are your priorities, go for the non-SL version. But if high resolution and speed are what you’re seeking, and you’ve got a suitable phono stage or step-up transformer, the SL version may be ideal.
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Specs
- Type
- Medium weight, medium compliance, low-impedance, low-output moving coil cartridge
- Stylus
- Lyra-designed long-footprint variable-radius line-contact nude diamond (3um x 70um profile, block dimensions 0.08 x 0.12 x 0.5 mm), slot-mounted
- Cantilever
- Solid boron rod with short one-point wire suspension, directly mounted into cartridge body
- Coils
- Single layer, 6N high-purity copper, square-shaped chemically-purified high-purity iron former, 2.7 Ohms internal impedance
- Output
- 0.25 mV@5 cm/sec
- Frequency range
- 10 Hz ~ 50 kHz
- Channel separation
- 35 dB or better at 1 kHz
- Compliance
- Approx 12x10-6 cm/dyne at 100 Hz
- Vertical tracking angle
- 20 degrees
- Cartridge body
- One-piece machining from solid 7075 alloy billet, with reduced-surface higher-pressure headshell contact area, partially non-parallel shaping, phase-interference resonance-controlling mechanism, and body threaded directly for mounting screws
- Distance from mounting holes to stylus tip
- 9.5 mm
- Cartridge weight (without stylus cover)
- 8.8 g
- Recommended tracking force
- 1.65 ~ 1.78 g (1.72 g recommended)
- Recommended load directly into MC phono input
- Determine by listening
- Recommended load via step-up transformer
- Step-up transformer designed for 2 - 3 Ohms cartridge impedance; the transformer output must be connected to standard 47kohm MM-level RIAA input, preferably via short, low-capacitance cable