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Lyra Skala Moving Coil Phono Cartridge
For many years Audiophiles the World over have prized the wonderful cartridges from Scan-Tech. Open, vibrant and fast, the Lyra line of moving coil phono cartridges made by Scantech are certainly some of the best you can buy.
Lyra cartridges are designed and manufactured by Scan-Tech of Tokyo, Japan. Each Lyra model is conceived by Jonathan Carr in collaboration with Yoshinori Mishima, the artisan who also hand-crafts each piece. The ultimate goal of all Lyra cartridge designs is to accurately reproduce the exact the full content contained in the record grooves, without adding any signature of its own.
Every Lyra cartridge uses an extremely low-mass Ogura PA micro line-contact stylus. Though tiny, the meticulously shaped and polished diamond offers exceptionally good groove-wall contact, insuring excellent tracking and great detail resolution, with minimal groove wear. The superior profile insures the stylus is in contact with more of the groove wall, making it less likely to be disturbed by localized groove damage. Additionally the stylus plays deeper in the groove at a depth not normally reached - or damaged - by other styli. The result is less surface noise and better fidelity on used records.
The Skala is the latest design from Lyra and is the first to employ Scan-Tech's fifth-generation design architecture.
The Skala uses what Lyra terms a “knife edge” design concept. The goal is to transfer vibrational energy from the cartridge to the tonearm as efficiently as possible. Lyra optimizes transmission through the use of material selection and mechanical design. The result is increased dynamic contrasts and greater clarity. As with all Scan-Tech designs, the cantilever assembly connected directly to the main (one-piece) structure of the cartridge. This improves transfer of energy while preventing vibrational energy from being reflected back into the coils, cantilever and stylus.
The Skala employs Scan-Tech's balanced symmetrical field system, where the signal coils operate in a magnetic field created by two powerful, precisely shaped disc magnets. Unlike conventional cartridges, there is no offset magnet to distort the field within the gap, and no pole pieces to affect the transfer of energy from magnet to coils, compress dynamics, or add unwanted distortions and sonic colorations. The lack of conductive material around the generator insures that no stray magnetic fields will be created via inductive effects, improving the ability to accurately convert mechanical groove energy into electrical signal.
Specifications
• Channel separation @ 1kHz: >35dB
• Cantilever: Solid boron circular rod
• Recommended tracking force: 1.65 - 1.75 grams
• Dynamic compliance @100 Hz: 12 x 10-6 cm/dyn
• Weight: 9g
Comparison of Delos with conventional cartridge design.
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