Dear Gian60,
Ana Mighty Sound is quite close to Thrax and we have had the chance to do a few times world premieres of Thrax products like the Libra 300B preamp in last November 2019 Paris Haute-Fidélité show or the brand new Lyra SE which have an upcoming review in December issue of French hifi magazine Haute-Fidélité.
I have been playing personally (meaning at home in my home system) the Lyra SE vs the previous Lyra. I have also presented the Lyra SE to some of my customers using Lyra speakers. If the Lyra is an excellent speaker, the Lyra SE is one big step further even though Thrax says it is just an upgrade. It is clearly much
Main evolution is not to be found in the cabinet design which is absolutely the same with the same fantastic proprietary horn design.... Speakers are new SEAS magnesium speakers coated with graphene which is a substantial improvement.
Like for the previous Lyra the crossover of the bass unit is 3rd order with a coil under the capacitor to provide extra steep peack at the breakup of the magnesium cone. It is like a notch filter.The tweeter is now working in current mode seeing a very high impedance and the signal passes only through a single V-Cap CuTf.
As with previous version the impedance is quite linear apart from the bass resonance, no tonal shift with tube amps just a bit of extra bass
Phase is very well controlled as well so an easy load altogether making it a as universal speaker as possible.
The difference is above all in the crossover where the tweeter sees very high impedance this has been further liveried in the higher frequencies. This prevents interference from woofer back electrometric force... sounds familiar for Thrax equipment as it is the same idea which is partially behind the development of the Libra 300B preamp : preventing woofer back emf by the use of bi-amplification, or the Basus + Lyra (active bass subwoofer controlling the Lyra) speakers.
This new crossover topology also allows very low intermodulation and compression making it sound live and super natural (clear sound).
Soundwise ? If the previous model has a very precise sweet point, with the SE : the sweet point is much much wider and it induces an even better soundstage. Timbre are even more natural and the bass is more homogeneous and seems to be even more extended. If with the Lyra the bass reproduction was more brutal, with SE it is like more coherent waves, more nuanced. This is certainly linked to the additional clarity gained in the 1k to 3kHz range which improves : spatialization, tone but also bass perception and provides a stress free performance very similar (if not identical) to a large horn system.
I had numerous talks with my customers and friends about the Lyra vs the Lyra SE. Some prefer the previous version and says it has some spice, something not really polite, while the Lyra SE produces something more usual for the HiFi landscape that makes it more instantaneously lovable.
The Lyra SE is more than 10 years of work from the original Lyra speakers. It just another level and I could not go back to the previous models. I use Thrax speakers every day not only for demonstration purposes but also for testing our catridges, step-ups and phono stages under the brand Sculpture A, but also our repair or tuning work for cartridges under Ana Mighty Sound. The new Lyra SE just give me even more feedback on our work and it is always an amazement to listen to them.
Ana Mighty Sound is quite close to Thrax and we have had the chance to do a few times world premieres of Thrax products like the Libra 300B preamp in last November 2019 Paris Haute-Fidélité show or the brand new Lyra SE which have an upcoming review in December issue of French hifi magazine Haute-Fidélité.
I have been playing personally (meaning at home in my home system) the Lyra SE vs the previous Lyra. I have also presented the Lyra SE to some of my customers using Lyra speakers. If the Lyra is an excellent speaker, the Lyra SE is one big step further even though Thrax says it is just an upgrade. It is clearly much
Main evolution is not to be found in the cabinet design which is absolutely the same with the same fantastic proprietary horn design.... Speakers are new SEAS magnesium speakers coated with graphene which is a substantial improvement.
Like for the previous Lyra the crossover of the bass unit is 3rd order with a coil under the capacitor to provide extra steep peack at the breakup of the magnesium cone. It is like a notch filter.The tweeter is now working in current mode seeing a very high impedance and the signal passes only through a single V-Cap CuTf.
As with previous version the impedance is quite linear apart from the bass resonance, no tonal shift with tube amps just a bit of extra bass
Phase is very well controlled as well so an easy load altogether making it a as universal speaker as possible.
The difference is above all in the crossover where the tweeter sees very high impedance this has been further liveried in the higher frequencies. This prevents interference from woofer back electrometric force... sounds familiar for Thrax equipment as it is the same idea which is partially behind the development of the Libra 300B preamp : preventing woofer back emf by the use of bi-amplification, or the Basus + Lyra (active bass subwoofer controlling the Lyra) speakers.
This new crossover topology also allows very low intermodulation and compression making it sound live and super natural (clear sound).
Soundwise ? If the previous model has a very precise sweet point, with the SE : the sweet point is much much wider and it induces an even better soundstage. Timbre are even more natural and the bass is more homogeneous and seems to be even more extended. If with the Lyra the bass reproduction was more brutal, with SE it is like more coherent waves, more nuanced. This is certainly linked to the additional clarity gained in the 1k to 3kHz range which improves : spatialization, tone but also bass perception and provides a stress free performance very similar (if not identical) to a large horn system.
I had numerous talks with my customers and friends about the Lyra vs the Lyra SE. Some prefer the previous version and says it has some spice, something not really polite, while the Lyra SE produces something more usual for the HiFi landscape that makes it more instantaneously lovable.
The Lyra SE is more than 10 years of work from the original Lyra speakers. It just another level and I could not go back to the previous models. I use Thrax speakers every day not only for demonstration purposes but also for testing our catridges, step-ups and phono stages under the brand Sculpture A, but also our repair or tuning work for cartridges under Ana Mighty Sound. The new Lyra SE just give me even more feedback on our work and it is always an amazement to listen to them.
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