Lyra Dorian

Selling for £495 at launch in the UK back in 2007, this was the Japanese cartridge specialist’s cheapest pickup ever, and although benefiting from designer Jonathon Carr’s tremendous experience, was not entirely hand built by Lyra’s artisan Yoshinori Mishima. Instead, the

Monitor Audio PL100

Monitor Audio was to be congratulated for its decision to use ribbon tweeters in its flagship Platinum series, launched back in 2007. The PL100 – which cost £2,300 – ran a very nice ceramic coated aluminium/magnesium ribbon HF unit riding shotgun with