The best got better, says Michael Fremer: “sounds like an entirely new cartridge …” with "luxurious textural suppleness, sustain, timbral generosity, and midband warmth, while losing none of the speed, slam, and detail retrieval.”
Read More →Roy Gregory finds that Lyra Etna Lambda and Etna Lambda SL offer “… both the significant step up in performance that these cartridges represent over the previous models and their absolute quality. Make no mistake -- these are genuine flagship products.”
Read More →Michel Fremer thinks Jonathan Carr pulled a feat of magic, opining that "it sounds in some ways as though a tiny, low-noise, low-distortion, super-linear vacuum tube has been inserted into the already-great Atlas.”
Read More →Dennis Davis thinks the Atlas λ might just be the fabled “last” cartridge even the most discerning audiophile needs.
Read More →Editor Alan Sircom is swept off his feet by Lyra’s Etna SL, which he says, “sets a standard against which all other top-end cartridges should be referenced.”
Read More →Alan Taffel awards a Golden Ear to Lyra Etna.
Read More →Jacob Heilbrun found the Atlas SL to be one of those rare transcendant components that imparts the feel of being “in the studio watching the performers.”
Read More →Editor: A longtyime admirer of Lyra’s ultra-performance cartrtidges, Fremer believes these two might be Lyra’s best yet.
Read More →Editor: Thank you, Michael Fremer and Stereophile, for a careful and insightful review. Seldom do we get the chance to read a review which so accurately describes what we hear in our own systems. Well done!
Read More →“The Etna is one of the new breed of harmonically enriched, full-bodied, yet ultradetailed and natural-sounding Lyras.”
Read More →Line-topping cartridge that reveals "the last ounce of music from a treasured record collection."
Read More →At the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, I spoke with Lyra”s Jonathan Carr about the Atlas
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