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New Lampizator Level 4/ Version 4 DAC in the house

Wonder if any other new owners of this DAC are out there as I find it to be the finest digital playback I have heard to date. This is the first digital front end piece of gear I have owned that has transformed my music.

Ya, other digital gear does this or that better, but this Lampy breaks through to a new level of musical enjoyment. Clear view into the music helping the speakers just disappear. Only 24 hours of break in and the music flows so sweet, intimate and seemingly without boundaries.

Looking under the hood I see an impressive power supply with films caps and several high quality chokes. Point to point silver wired except for the digital and USB boards. This is a three tube player that is tube rectified. One has the option for SS rectification if desired.

Ya, I love this Lampy!
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weatherb
12 posts
 
Does this mean that standard CD's or music stored on hard disk is DSD through the Lampi? Or still PCM.

Also, who is the U.S. distributor? Are there local or regional dealers?

Thanks!
wisnon
700 posts
 
Weatherb,

DSD and PCM is BOTH played back natively in Lampi Dacs.
DSD will either be an add on option to the normal Lampi Dac (whic is PCM) or you can buy a DSD-ONLY Lampi dac which will NOT play PCM in any shape or form. If you convert PCM music to DSD via computer program (Saracon/JRiver PC, etc), then you can play that back on a Lampi DSD-only Dac.

However, if you have a L5 with the DSD option, it would be best to play back PCM natively via the PCM section of the Dac and DSD, via the DSD section. You can use the remote to toggle inputs to the Volume Control/preamp selector. DSD is filtered and sent as an analog signal to the volume control.
weatherb
12 posts
 
Wisnon: Thanks. That clears things up for me.
wstam
8 posts
 
Just learn from this thread that Lampizator also produce a Transport. Reading through their pages, it seems that it only has S/PDIF output and limit at 24/96. Is this correct? So it won't work with DSD stream? Thanks for sharing the info.
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sgr
689 posts
 
Hi,
While not an expert I do have first hand experience with the TranspOrt which is really a streamer built on the bones of a Squeezebox Duet. (Go to the Lampizator.eu site and read about and see how it is made.) Yes it is technically only capable of what you say above. But, it in reality does much more. In short the thing sounds incredible. What it does to Redbook negates any need for hi Rez offerings, (have not heard DSD yet) I have tried it with a Lampizator 4 DAC, a Theta Gen 5a, and the PS Audio PWD II with Bridge, in each case, the Lampizator transformed the sound to a bigger, bolder, more realistic sound than before. Can't wait for mine to be delivered.
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