2. digital
  3. 1376527744

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!
128x128grannyring
gopher
499 posts
 
Jwm,

Lukasz Fikus, Robert Reich and myself will be at CES/THE Show on LampizatOrs behalfas well. Those of you planning on making it out to Vegas next month are invited to come visit us in rooms 4058-4060 at the Flamingo Hotel, January 7-10th.

We are excited to be debuting our Level 7 DAC, which we believe to be without peers, along with our GM70 monoblock amplifiers.

Our partners for the show will be Dale Pitcher of Mosiac Audio who will be showing his new Speakers, power conditioner and cables and tentatively Tube Research Lab who may be providing us with a DUDE preamplifier.

Hope to see some of you guys there!

Fred
charles1dad's avatar
charles1dad
10,250 posts
 
Hi Fred,
That soulds really interesting, Jwm (Jeff) and I will make it a point to come by and listen . We'll bring music that very familiar to us. Besides the DAC I've always wanted to hear the Lampizator amplifier.
Charles,
agear
1,362 posts
 
Jwm, I know the Lampizator posse (Lucas, Fred, and Rob) will be showing with Dale Pitcher which is very exciting. Lucas is bringing his L7 Lampi DAC along with his USB transport. Dale will be showing his new speaker line, conditioner, and cabling. Should be stellar. Wish I could go....

Crna39, that is good news. I think the prototype you had did not even have Gucci caps in place. Image that thing with Duelunds....

himiguel's avatar
himiguel
152 posts
 
Hi Charles, glad you're enjoying this new found level of naturalism in your favorite music. Enjoy! Thanks for all those jazz recommendations in your system's page.

Charles, Jeff, Andrew exciting news regarding L7 and Dale showing together. I will be there to listen to this system.
grannyring's avatar
grannyring OP
6,506 posts
 
Enjoying my Lampy more than ever as I learn how to maximize the sound of my computer based transport. Something else I learned from Steve and Empirical that is yet another upgrade in sound.....

Use a program called Wave Editor and up sample your 16/44 files to 24/96 using the program. I am using the 15 day free trial and the full program costs $75. Cheap upgrade folks. The same type of gain I experienced going from aiff to wav. The upsampled wav files sound even more natural and relaxed removing yet another slight degree of digital artifact. The details can be found on the Empirical Audio site with a link to an Audio Circles thread on the topic. Read it and learn.
More to discover