Atlas

About the Atlas

The Lyra Atlas is a premium moving coil phono cartridge designed by Jonathan Carr and built by Yoshinori Mishima. It features a medium weight, medium compliance, low-impedance design with a Lyra-designed long-footprint variable-radius line-contact nude diamond stylus. The cantilever is a diamond-coated solid boron rod with a short one-point wire suspension, mounted directly into the cartridge body via a high-pressure knife-edge system, ensuring a seamless and rigid connection to the headshell. The coil former is uniquely X-shaped, allowing each channel to operate independently, improving tracking, channel matching, separation, and reducing crosstalk distortion. The cartridge body is machined from a solid titanium billet with asymmetrical, non-parallel surfaces and a phase-interference resonance-controlling mechanism to minimize resonances. The Atlas employs Lyra's "New Angle" technology, mechanically pre-biasing the signal coils for optimal alignment during playback, equalizing vertical and horizontal compliance for superior tracking performance. It delivers an output voltage of 0.56mV at 5cm/sec, with a frequency range of 10Hz to 50kHz and channel separation of 35dB or better at 1kHz. Recommended tracking force is 1.65–1.75g, with loading options depending on phono stage or step-up transformer. The Atlas represents a significant advancement in LP playback, combining innovative mechanical design and advanced materials for exceptional sound quality.