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
Many members on this thread are familar with TRL Samson ... TRL SS sound. It doesn't sound like SS or tubes but just music. I tell ya, it's a superb match with the TAD E1.

[quote]Almost sold them last year and turns out the problem was my old EW Andra II. It's too bad Paul doesn't market his stuff.[quote]

Amen to all that. The Samsons are extraordinary SS amps. High bandwidth, effortless, without any traces of SS glare, strain, or compression. I owned them for 4 years and sold them simply due to the audiophile itch....
I heard mixed reviews of the TAD rooms. The word flat was bandied around. Not up to their normal standards.
It would be news if there was no mixed reviews. When is there ever consensus in this hobby?

Since there are many familiar with TRL in this thread, I just want to share how well Paul's SS amp stacks up against the BIG ticket competition. There's nothing for me to add on TAD. It's heavily reviewed by professionals and owners.

The transport is a highly modified Squeezebox DUET with a tube rectified PSU and a tube SPIDF output
Spec indicates 24/96, still based on Duet? Duet only supports 24/88.2. Maybe SB Touch?
Berony, does the Lamp Transport cache/buffer data before play? A track? whole CD?

Lukasz knows his stuff. In his Lamp Transport page, he clearly explains why computer audio is superior to cd player and without saying, IF executed correctly.
Amen to the TRL Samson amps. Just great SS amps and known by very few unfortunately. Mated with the Dude you have something very special.

I heard that combo with the Lampi dac in a fellow Agoner's system and it was just awesome!
Bill, click on this link and scroll past the photos.

http://lampizator.eu/szop/szopproducts/LZ-TRANSPORT/Lampizator%20transport.html

You will see two sections, one called Example of System Set-up and one called Example of New System. The latter describes use with a MacMini. This should give you a good idea of what is involved. Basically the Lampizator transport is middleware like the Offramp. Just some different methods to connect everything together and from what I can tell only handles 24/96.

IIRC, someone on this thread was mentioning Sample Manager as a software tool to convert bit depth and resample rates using Izotope. I just cloned my library and converted anything 16/44.1 to 24/88.2. Now I just play the files natively in JRiver bypassing their SRC. So far so good with the results.