New Lampizator Level 4/ Version 4 DAC in the house

I visited the Lampizator suite every day. By Friday I was very impressed with the L7's character, but I didn't like the overall sound. I thought the room was way too small and the speakers questionable. I had never really paid much attention to the various Lampizator models, but I think I prefer the L7.

It was only after I heard high hat on it that I was satisfied that it was full range. I am hoping to get a better listen to it in my system.

I seem to have very dissimilar tastes to many here. With quad dsd on the horizon and double dsd now available, I don't think vinyl as normally heard is the standard anymore. Sony is going to put all of its master tapes on quad dsd. This represents about forty percent of the master tapes in the world. Digital in this form will soon be the standard. I have heard double dsd and it is really real sounding. I can only imagine what quad dsd will sound like.

I must say that quad dsd is going to require new dac chips and solutions on how to get it to the dac from the drive.

KingHifi.

The buffering would be in the domain of the Squeezplay software engine on the host computer, similar to Audirvana/JRiver and that info is in the public Domain. The SBR is just the streamer/Dac and the Lampizator treatement paradigm is to discard the feeble Dac function and to enhance the digital pass thru by reclocing, improving components and Power supply, as well as to square up the digital wave via the use of the digilampizator.

The TranspOrt is NOT the same as the USB/SPdif converter...there seems to be some confusion here.

Tbg, hello, long time no speak. The speakers were not properly set up and broken in until late Friday, i am told...then it started impressing mightily. Previous skeptics have broken out their checkbooks, I am told. Finally, I have a Lampi DSD-only dac and I can attest to the fact that properly recorded 128 stuff is sublime!

+1 with brand new Lampizator L4 G4

Dear Users,
Do you have any experience with Lampizator USB board? How does is cooperate with Mac Mini? Or is it better to use usb-> spdif converter ?

Thank you for you help

From Lampizator Transport web page:

"MY LampizatOr Transport plays from own FIFO RAM Buffer."

This is the buffer I'm asking? Does it buffer X amount or number of tracks before play starts.

Without going into too much detail, I was just using JRiver, Audirvana ... as examples.

Kng, You are correct (I was wrong, mea culpa). While there may be local computer "buffer" its not that critical as the signal still has a ways to go to hit the Dac.

After investigations, there IS indeed a Ram buffer located in the SB-R, similar to buffers in DVD players. The buffer is very fast RAM memory and is located an inch or so away from the tube output, so a TRUE buffer, for about 4 seconds (I believe). This is the basic architecture of the SB-R and not unique to the TranspOrt.

The Squeezecentre player may also be storing info on the computer before sending via wireless or LAN cable, but would not be a true buffer, as much can happen to screw up the signal before it gets to the Dac, given the USB cable transmission and the stock SBR processing.