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!
grannyring
Andrew, that is the tubed USB Converter. I thought Gopher was talking about the SqueezeBox based TRANSPORT.
Has anyone compared the Lampizator USB converter to the Offramp? The Lampy website sure makes it sound like the best? It is a tubed unit which is interesting. I do know this. The Offramp makes the USB input on my Lampizator 4/4 dac sound almost broken. So the USB input on my Lampy is certainly not up to the standards of the Offramp. Now the Lampy converter? That is interesting to me.
Its beyond me why anyone would put tubes in totally digital equipment, even just for power regulation. Nothing about tubes is interesting for digital. If you want it to perform like something from 1950, this would be the way.

When I was in the 7th grade I got a Bendix G15 computer to disassemble. This was all tube digital.

Steve N.
Empirical Audio
Interesting point Steve. Love to hear what the Lampy builder would say as his tube dac, is digital, and quite special. As for a converter?