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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Getting back to the subject of LampizatOr, I am not sure the buffer size used by the Squeezebox driven TranspOrt. Its never been an issue with a wired or even wireless connection in my experience, but I will do some digging in case people with latency issues in their home networks have questions.

In the meantime, perhaps starting another thread for miscellaneous topics is appropriate? There is some good information getting buried in the off topic conversation.
I am not sure the buffer size used by the Squeezebox driven TranspOrt. Its never been an issue with a wired or even wireless connection in my experience, but I will do some digging in case people with latency issues in their home networks have questions.
It's a performance issue and not just latency. All computer buffers to enhance performance.

Bryston BDP, Audirvana, JRiver ... they all buffers at least 1st track before play. If you ask Lukasz about buffering he will understand. I'm interested how much his transport buffers before play.
I visited the Lampizator suite every day. By Friday I was very impressed with the L7's character, but I didn't like the overall sound. I thought the room was way too small and the speakers questionable. I had never really paid much attention to the various Lampizator models, but I think I prefer the L7.

It was only after I heard high hat on it that I was satisfied that it was full range. I am hoping to get a better listen to it in my system.

I seem to have very dissimilar tastes to many here. With quad dsd on the horizon and double dsd now available, I don't think vinyl as normally heard is the standard anymore. Sony is going to put all of its master tapes on quad dsd. This represents about forty percent of the master tapes in the world. Digital in this form will soon be the standard. I have heard double dsd and it is really real sounding. I can only imagine what quad dsd will sound like.

I must say that quad dsd is going to require new dac chips and solutions on how to get it to the dac from the drive.
KingHifi.

The buffering would be in the domain of the Squeezplay software engine on the host computer, similar to Audirvana/JRiver and that info is in the public Domain. The SBR is just the streamer/Dac and the Lampizator treatement paradigm is to discard the feeble Dac function and to enhance the digital pass thru by reclocing, improving components and Power supply, as well as to square up the digital wave via the use of the digilampizator.

The TranspOrt is NOT the same as the USB/SPdif converter...there seems to be some confusion here.

Tbg, hello, long time no speak. The speakers were not properly set up and broken in until late Friday, i am told...then it started impressing mightily. Previous skeptics have broken out their checkbooks, I am told. Finally, I have a Lampi DSD-only dac and I can attest to the fact that properly recorded 128 stuff is sublime!
+1 with brand new Lampizator L4 G4

Dear Users,
Do you have any experience with Lampizator USB board? How does is cooperate with Mac Mini? Or is it better to use usb-> spdif converter ?

Thank you for you help