A Superb Blend of Modern and Traditional Engineering: Hand-Made, Individually Tuned Lyra Kleos Plays with Smooth, Detailed, Fast, Uniform Sound and Features Stellar Tracking Ability

Hand-made in Japan, honed through multiple levels of inspection, and individually tuned with music for ultimate uniformity, the Lyra Kleos MC phono cartridge plays with smooth, detailed, fast, and rich sound that helps make it an incredible analog value. Designed by analog expert Jonathan Carr, Kleos benefits from precision engineering and an array of enhancements that include "new angle" geometry on the boron cantilever, a line-contact stylus, and supreme resonance control via its massive body. There's no way words can adequately describe the depth, detail, and imaging Kleos will wring from your music collection. Nor is there any comparable substitute for the emotional responses you will enjoy from hearing your vinyl LPs sound so lifelike and engaging. In every regard, this is a cartridge that belongs in the high-end hall of fame.

"New Angle" Geometry for Superior Alignment and Increased Resolution
Kleos features an innovative cantilever angle that gives it an advantage on virtually every other suspension model on the market. Most every other cartridge centers the cantilever in the generating mechanism when the cartridge is at rest, inevitably leading to distortion and loss of resolution when the cartridge is lowered to the playing surface. Kleos benefits from Lyra's "New Angle" suspension system, which completely aligns the cantilever, coils, and the main cartridge structure. Similar to the way a car suspension extends fully when raised on a lift and pre-loads when returned to the ground, this unique suspension arrangement tilts the cantilever when it is in the rest position but achieves a perfect geometrical relation of all the generating elements once the stylus is lowered to the record.

Addictive Speed, Dynamics, Soundstaging, Smoothness, and More
Sonically, Kleos is lightning fast, with outstanding speed and dynamics. Soundstaging and imaging are first-rate, and Kleos delves deeper into a recording than the Lyra Helikon to retrieve more detail. Thanks to the new coil alignment, Kleos is a superb tracker, offering an incredibly smooth overall tonal balance with spectral content at both extremes. Kleos also serves up an ultra-smooth midrange, with a graceful and extended top end. Kleos never sounds warmed over, just warmer. Shockingly quiet, Kleos benefits from a much lower noise floor than previous Lyra designs and delivers a substantial increase in perceived gain and resolution.<

Boron Cantilever and Advanced Coil System
Kleos is the least expensive cartridge to ever receive Lyra's Ogura-manufactured boron cantilever and "New Angle" coil system. This extraordinary system is normally reserved for Lyra's top-line cartridges. The low mass, line-contact stylus (3x75µm) rides lower in the groove, revealing greater detail with an incredibly low noise floor. The cartridge pins are platinum plated for outstanding durability and conductivity.

Massive Duraluminum Body Yields Increased Energy Transfer
Made of an advanced duraluminum, an aircraft grade aluminum alloy with a beautiful plated finish normally reserved for ultra-expensive camera equipment, the cartridge body is massive. Kleos has a raised contact path across the mounting hole that concentrates the contact force of the cartridge to the headshell for increased energy transfer. When viewed from the rear, the Kleos has two distinctive cylindrical inserts, press-fit into the mounting block. These specially tuned heavy-metal elements provide an enormous level of damping and resonance suppression, eliminating standing waves within the chassis of the cartridge.

"The Lyra Kleos was able to handle any record that I threw at it. [It] is so transparent, its transient response so quick, its background supernaturally quiet, that its sound seemed to only be limited by the recording it was reproducing. After listening to the Lyra Kleos in my system for nearly two months, an improvement in sound is just about unimaginable. Bravo, Lyra!"
– Tom Lyle, Enjoy the Music