I did not say best. The SAEC sounded fantastic with the Atlas SL in Gian's system, especially given that the Opus had sounded so much better than the Atlas SL before on the Bergmann Sindre in the same room. Now, the Atlas SL with the SAEC was rocking, high details, dynamics, drive and stage. As you know, I did not like the Atlas SL on your SME (and Shane does not like the combo at his either). The SME is slowing down the Lyra and making it sound too lush tonally. Maybe it is coloring it, and you need to tweak it to get it to sound more like Lyra. Also note that Jonathan Carr before moving on to SAT with the Lyra, was using a heavy arm FR64s with the Lyra, maybe it did similarly to what SAEC does