04-10-14: DrajreynoldsThat is a remarkable message. Both named cartridges are still the sonic benchmark, independently from price but are not longer available. In the last year I never met a cartridge (from the modern ones) which was even able to scratch their overall performance.
.....it might be best if I simply say that the Archon combines the best attributes of the Lyra Olympos and Takeda Miyabi Alnico in one relatively affordable modern cartridge...
The Miyabi was a top performer with any given Tonearm (very hard to find today), the Olympos needs a serious Arm design to show the full performance (awful with any carbon Arm, super with Fr-64s or some older Japanese Warhorses).
Archos seems to be a performer which created - to those who listened to it - a positive reaction. Seems, there is worse out there :-)