Being born and raised in Oklahoma, I HAVE to like this! 
I interviewed Shirley Jones several times. She is one very nice lady.
I just watched a Jimmy Stewart western for a Saturday matinee and thought of this album.
âOOOoooKlahoma, where the wind comes whistlinâ down the plainsâŠâ
Thatâs âsweeping down the plainâ. 
where are you from anyway? Texas? 
Hey, Beef, have you gotten that Lyra Delos broken in yet? Do.you like it?
I fell in love with this one and have to listen again; Rediscovered why I bought them without hesitation years ago;
Yes. Took some time, noodling and added weight on the headshell to get the arm/cart synergy happening, but it is Dialed In. Playing this totally clean copy of a once-removed DtoD (that is, from the tape) that I got crate-diving at a local record store for $10, and it is fab:
One of the things that is flipping me out is the dynamics of it vs. the Soundsmith. Even on non-DtoD discs.
Iâd complained on the phone to Peter at Soundsmith a couple of years back that the prior (non-Star MIMC) cart I had was âtoo digitalâ, and he said, âThat is not something most people complain aboutâ, or words to that effect. And while I got that, I didnât really have a handle on it until listening to this. This cart has more Analog Bounce to the Ounce, as it were, while having more of everything else. Digital recordings are often dynamically âflatâ comparatively, independent of the overall dynamic range capability of one format vs. the other.
And I have to add that Iâm not entirely sure that can be fully accounted for by Digital Engineers overusing compression and limiting and so on. I feel that it is simply a difference between analog and digital formats generally, having lived half my life with one, then both.
At first the Delos was awful. Was briefly thinking it was broken. But in hindsight, that was due to improper setup, and because it is much more sensitive generally. It is also a different shape of stylus that seems to be going down into the grooves further. Ultrasonically cleaned records are yielding crap on the stylus. It is much more sensitive to setup and skating and so on.
I do have to slide in the caveat that this was sorta roughly coincident with getting a new TT:
However, I did have the Delos working properly on the old TT for a while prior to getting the new TT. It wasnât a simultaneous change of everything.
By the time that wind gets to Michigan and Illinois where I spent most of my life, its whistlinâ. Had a feeling that didnât sound right. Now Iâm in CO, and it sounds different yet again.
