i have an Amber II and the considerably more expensive Aesthetix Pandora Sig with a brace of very nice tubes....the Lampi gets very close and like the Pandora errs on the side of musicality.. An incredible value....no doubt...
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Resurrecting an old thread instead of starting a new one.. The Lampizator Amber 2 was recently updated to a 2019 spec, including the digital engine that trickled down from the upmarket Pacific DAC. It now has full PCM support, as well as up to DSD512. Supposedly it’s a whole different animal from the original Amber 2. Anyone experience one yet? |
Codex measurements are awful. Probabably is not necessary to spend that much to upgrade. BTW I just looked at the Lampizator site and there are not data of the performance of their DACs, just blah, blah. Huge red flag for me. https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/review-and-measurements-of-ayre-codex-dac-amp.7282/ |
Ayre DACs have a listen and measure switch for a reason try them out before passing judgement on the fruits of an incredible engineering team, who are also nuts about music. As for Lampizator, another genius engineer who loves music. hard to go wrong with either. disclosure: I own an Ayre A2D and. Lampizator DAC, along w others... |
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