Lyra Kleos

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General

  • Manufacturer: Lyra
  • Model: Kleos
  • Years of manufacture:
  • Made in: Japan
  • Color: light grey
  • Weight: 8.8 g
  • New price: approx. 2.800,- Euro (as of: 2016)


Technical Data

  • Principle: Moving Coil (MC)
  • Frequency response: 10 - 50,000 Hz
  • Channel separation: > 35 dB (1 kHz)
  • Channel balance:
  • Crosstalk attenuation:
  • Output voltage: 0.5 mV
  • Terminating resistor: 91 - 47,000 Ohm
  • Internal resistance: 5.4 Ohm
  • Inductance: 9 µH
  • Needle type: Ogura Lyra Line Contact (r/R: 3/75 µm), boron needle carrier
  • Recommended contact force: 16 - 17.5 mN
  • Needle compliance: 12 µm/mN (at 100 Hz)
  • Scanning capability at 315 Hz: 120 µm


Special Features


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  • Stereoplay issue 10/2010
    • Sound: absolute top class (61 points)
    • Overall rating: very good (85 points)
    • Price/Performance: very good
"Lyra has done it. With its new design, the Kleos trumps the previous front-runner, the Titan i, by quite a margin - and at almost half the price. Something like this can only be described as an analog sensation."

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