LYRA - TITAN(i) MC PHONO CARTRIDGE

'The Ultimate Reference Cartridge!' The Titan(i) is the most sophisticated cartridge Lyra has ever designed. The very first time you drop the stylus into the grooves, you know you are listening to something very special. The Titan(i) is the perfect marriage of thunderous dynamics and pure delicacy; in one word: GLORIOUS! This cartridge portrays the essence of live music: true-to-life scale and perspective, tonal accuracy of real instruments, the most overall cohesive musical presentation possible. Michael Fremer called the Titan(i) 'the least mechanical sounding, most lyrical and liquid sounding cartridge he's ever heard from anyone at any price!' In HiFi+, Roy Gregory wrote that 'the Titan(i) is a genuine flagship product that towers over the rest, delivering unprecedented musicality and forgiving of all but the most extreme surface damage.' It may sound strange to call a $4500 phono cartridge a great value, but after playing just one of your favorite LPs, you too, will be a believer! It takes many hours of tireless labor to hand-build and voice every Titan(i), so please be patient if you must endure a short wait to get your hands on one the world's finest cartridges! (NOTE: Parnassus D.C.t and Helikon owners: Call about Lyra's generous upgrade program.)(.5 mV output)

Titan(i) Specifications:

Builder: Yoshinori Mishima / Designer: Jonathan Carr
Type: Low impedance, low output Moving Coil
Frequency range: 10Hz - 50kHz
Channel separation: 35dB or better at 1kHz
Cantilever system: Diamond-coated solid boron rod with LYRA original, natural diamond line-contact stylus (3 x 70 micrometers profile)
Internal impedance: 5.5ohms
Output voltage: 0.5mV (5.0cm/sec., zero to peak, 45 degrees)
Cartridge weight (without stylus cover): 10.5g
Compliance: Approx. 12 x 10-6 cm/dyne at 100Hz
Recommended tracking force: 1.65 - 1.75g
Recommended load: Direct into non-inverting RIAA phono input: 100ohms - 47kohms / MC step-up transformer: 4 - 10ohms (not more than 10ohms)
Recommended tonearm: High-performance, tight tolerance bearing(s), resonance-free, medium mass radial or linear tracking type with adjustable anti-skating force.