Hola,
It's been a slightly lean equipment year because I've been saving up for the new laser cartridge that's being made by the Marshall University Physics Department.
They had a grant to make a remote sensing laser inferometry device that would measure imprefections in things that were supposed to have as few flaws as possible - like small tracks for things that move on tracks, and for things like ballbearings that are supposed to be as free as possible from deviations from "smoothness."
Link to Marshall University Grant Review
A buddy's wife's dad is a retired Marshall engineer who is a fellow Hi Fi nut, and he saw the obvious connection between this device and possible LP playback.
So, he started this hobby project to try and do what that Finial Laser Table does, only without the need for the whole turntable.
He's a fellow Lyra cartridge owner, and he came up with a way to retrofit new-body-style Lyra cartridges to his laser reader.
The laser assembly and "reader" fit right in the old cartridge body, and then the leads from the cartridge plug directly into a regular preamp - no need for a phono pre at all.
It took a real leap of faith to sacrifice my Argo, but I heard his system and decided there was no other choice.
Here's some quick pics of my former Lyra.
It looks alot like it used to except for the laser tracking thing on the bottom and the lack of a stylus.
So, the sound is incredible. Talk about "blacker blacks!"
Transients are instantaneous - speed of light quality.
You can program the tracking via remote to track different levels of the groove, so even ancient discs can come through click and pop free.
Noise is just no longer an issue - the background noise on this baby is truly zero.
If you have a Lyra you don't mind killing, then this "upgrade" is the way to go.
I'd post the price, but I got mine at Michael Fremer discount levels, so suffice it to say, DUP wouldn't be happy.
I'll try to get some pics of it in action later!
Hola,
It's been a slightly lean equipment year because I've been saving up for the new laser cartridge that's being made by the Marshall University Physics Department.
They had a grant to make a remote sensing laser inferometry device that would measure imprefections in things that were supposed to have as few flaws as possible - like small tracks for things that move on tracks, and for things like ballbearings that are supposed to be as free as possible from deviations from "smoothness."
Link to Marshall University Grant Review
A buddy's wife's dad is a retired Marshall engineer who is a fellow Hi Fi nut, and he saw the obvious connection between this device and possible LP playback.
So, he started this hobby project to try and do what that Finial Laser Table does, only without the need for the whole turntable.
He's a fellow Lyra cartridge owner, and he came up with a way to retrofit new-body-style Lyra cartridges to his laser reader.
The laser assembly and "reader" fit right in the old cartridge body, and then the leads from the cartridge plug directly into a regular preamp - no need for a phono pre at all.
It took a real leap of faith to sacrifice my Argo, but I heard his system and decided there was no other choice.
Here's some quick pics of my former Lyra.
It looks alot like it used to except for the laser tracking thing on the bottom and the lack of a stylus.
So, the sound is incredible. Talk about "blacker blacks!"
Transients are instantaneous - speed of light quality.
You can program the tracking via remote to track different levels of the groove, so even ancient discs can come through click and pop free.
Noise is just no longer an issue - the background noise on this baby is truly zero.
If you have a Lyra you don't mind killing, then this "upgrade" is the way to go.
I'd post the price, but I got mine at Michael Fremer discount levels, so suffice it to say, DUP wouldn't be happy.
I'll try to get some pics of it in action later!