Skala The Skala is the first of LYRA designer Jonathan Carr's 5th-generation cartridge designs. The Skala is a thoroughbred design focused on delivering pure performance. At first sight the Skala appears to be made entirely of plastic but close inspection reveals a central structure made from a vertical metal blade. This metal blade carries the cantilever system, the magnets and output pins, i.e. the entire functional core of the cartridge. When installed in the tonearm the blade is clamped to the headshell by the outer white plastic body. Since the cantilever system is mounted directly to the blade, the cantilever has a seamless focused connection path to the tonearm. While the metal blade of the Skala functions without the resonant carapace of a traditional cartridge body, the white plastic base also constrains and damps resonances in the blade, while its non-conductive material reduces eddy currents. The magnetic system in the Skala is the same twin-disc direct-magnet system used in other LYRA models. New elements are a non-conductive and non-magnetic front magnet carrier, new cantilever system, new output pin design and carrier. Skala Specifications Stereo medium output 0.5mV boron cantilever polymer base and metal vertebrae construction exchange with any Lyra cartridge manufacturer's website