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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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shadowlight
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Agear,

As a host of the event I had limited listening session with the DAC's (the night before) and what I heard I enjoyed it very much. On Saturday I got maybe 5 minutes all day to sit down and listen to the GM70, transport and DAC. The one thing that I would have to say is the synergy between my speakers and Lamp was not optimal (the basement setup) and we swapped a lot of equipment around which kind of made it difficult to judge the setup. I would say the high light for me was the DSD dac. Next time I will have to spend more time with the setup and take corrective action before everyone starts arriving.
shadowlight
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Grannyring,

I liked the sound that I heard on Friday night and seriously thinking about moving forward with L4 dac to be used with usb and JRiver setup.

My current setup is battery powered ack dac, dodd preamp, response audio modified jolida 302/502 and logitech touch. The primary speakers that I listen to are the Soul Superfly in the spare bedroom. The basement rig with Omen Def is setup for HT right now and the last time I had used them as 2-channel was around 6 months ago and my recollection is fuzzy.

The speakers (Omen Def) were the only thing that stayed the same in the basement and everything around it was totally different (speaker cables, power cord, transport, dac, amp). When Lukasz and I were listening to the Bigsix Friday night after setting up Omen Def the sound was 3D like in the room but after we moved the various equipment I felt there was bit of glare/harshness for the 5 minutes that I listened to the setup with the equipment.

Initially we had setup the Soul Superfly in the basement since that is my primary 2-channel speaker but the speakers did not work out in the basement. They sound flat in the room due to the room size (~13 x 30).
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