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Who has Luv for the Lyngdorf 2170 and is thinking about the 3400.

Hello All,
I’m coming up on 40 yrs in this hobby,and or obsession of ours,and I started with a pair of Khorns and Macintosh at the age of 12 and Offcourse owned a ton of different gear over the yrs.
I bought a 2170 a little more than 6 months ago and I enjoyed it so much that I quickly realized I don’t really need anything else,solid state,tubes,or even dac’s anymore.I could step off that silly merry go round of amplification and just enjoy music.I was able to utilize the extra money and time and put together a really great sounding network audio system that rivaled the best in analog that I have ever had,I was mainly a analog guy all of these yrs but finally gave it up,I even sold my longtime record collection of 3k records which included many Hot Stampers that I purchased and also several that I found on my own.

So who Luv’s the 2170 and is maybe also thinking about the new 3400.

Happy Listening,
Kenny.

kdude66
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grannyring
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@bjesien



Was the amp broken in? Brand new? What was paired with it? Did you use the internal dac and usb input? What power cord did you use? Thanks ahead for this additional info.
bjesien
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The amp was new and I was able to put about 220 hours on it at high power levels before really deciding.  Cables were stock, Nordost Frey2 and Wireworld Electra.  I used the internal Dac with USB.  
I gave it a fair trial and it just never sounded real to my ears.  It had a vail that I couldn’t shake.  Didn’t better the Ayre VAC or Luxman amps I’ve owned.  The room perfect is great but my Devores are fairly easy to place.  I did position them way out of whack,and when I did that, I was surprised how well the room perfect feature tuned them.  I’ve heard other high quality class d amps from T+A and SPEC from Japan and while I appreciated some qualities, I just found that over time I was listening less.  If I had the choose between the Lyngdorf and the SPEC I would go with the SPEC because it had more of that “in the room with the musician” quality that is important to me.  
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grannyring
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Understood and thanks for the update! 
myaudio168
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I just bought the 2170 and would like to use it only as a room correction unit.  I like my system setup but my room is small.  Is there an easy way to set the 2170 between my pre-amp and power amp and still have the RP works effectively?  Any help would be appreciated.    
mofojo
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What you are describing is rather odd. It's an integrated amplifier and best used on its own. You can use the preouts and use the unit as a preamp through the analog out but to use it from a preamp to the 2170 to the power amp is not really possible that I can figure out. 
Did you try it on it's own before you want to try and go this route? 
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