Lyra Etna Phono Cartridge

Thanks to my colleague Jacob Heilbrunn this may be the easiest review I’ll ever write. See, Jacob did all the spade work when he reviewed the Lyra Etna SL in Issue 266, a cartridge to which the standard Etna is closely related. Since the two cartridges share so many sonic virtues, all I have to do is crib what Jacob said about the SL. But first, what’s the difference between the two carts? With the SL Jacob reviewed, Lyra set out to lower the coil’s mass by using a single layer (thus the SL) of winding rather than the regular …