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LYRA - TITAN MONO MC PHONO CARTRIDGE

The Lyra Titan is One of the World's Very Best Refrence Mono Cartridges!

For the most demanding of analog audiophiles, Lyra has built a special mono version of the Titan. If your mono LP collection numbers into the hundreds or thousands, this is the final word in mono cartridge design. You've never heard your mono records like this before!

'The Ultimate Reference Mono Cartridge!' The Titan 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 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 '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 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 this phono cartridge a great value, but after playing just one of your favorite mono LPs, you too, will be a believer! It takes many hours of tireless labor to hand-build and voice every Titan, so please be patient if you must endure a short wait to get your hands on one the world's finest cartridges! Call about Lyra's generous upgrade program.)(.25 mV output for Mono Version)

Specifications for Lyra Titan Mono:
Designer: Jonathan Carr
Builder: Hand-built and voiced by Yoshinori Mishima
Type: Moving Coil, low-impedance, low-output, medium compliance
Frequency range: 10Hz - 50kHz
Channel separation: 35dB or better at 1kHz
Cantilever system: Lyra proprietary internal cantilever-to-body direct mounted cantilever assembly with solid boron rod, and natural diamond, Ogura-manufactured, Lyra original line-contact stylus (3 x 70 micrometers profile)
Electromagnetic generator system: Lyra proprietary polepiece-less, dual neodymium discs, balanced symmetrical field, magnetic system with 99.999 (5N) iron core and 99.9999 (6N) copper coils
Internal impedance: 3ohms
Output voltage: 0.25mV (5.0cm/sec. RMS, horizontal movement, 1kHz)
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 equalizer amplifier or head-amplifier: 100ohms - 47kohms (determine best impedance value by listening)
Recommended load via step-up transformer: 2 - 6ohms
(step-up transfomer’s output must be connected to 47kohm MM-level RIAA input)