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    Re: LampizatOr - Any Golden Atlantic, Amber II or Atlantic dac users here? or other recommendations ...

    Thank you so much
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    Re: LampizatOr - Any Golden Atlantic, Amber II or Atlantic dac users here? or other recommendations ...

    Quote Originally Posted by bonzo View Post
    Actually, at a lower price point there might be competing dacs. At a higher price point there are none as far as I am concerned...
    i can definitely see your logic in that line of thinking... to help guide the research of those following this thread, which are the lower price point dacs with a tube output stage that deserve comparison to the lampizatOrs and further investigation?

    the very high end lampizatOrs might well be in class of their own. its just at that price i would want to turn over all the rocks so as to be confident with the end decision.

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    Re: LampizatOr - Any Golden Atlantic, Amber II or Atlantic dac users here? or other recommendations ...

    I have done shootouts with Nagra, MSB select II, vivaldi, esoteric and the 40k Aries cerat.

    I have not done compares of Atlantic to lower priced dacs but there are many.

    My second digital choice is Neodio origine which is mainly a CD player, though it has an USB input. We compared it to trinity, 75k stahltek transport, etc. It sells factory direct for 15k Euro plus vat

    My point still.. You can get another dac, say aqua formula, and you can place it next to GA. Maybe in your system it will sound better, maybe it won't. You can't do anything about the one sounding less. I have had shootouts with GG with other dacs where with one valve it sounded less so I simply switched, 2 mins, to make it sound much better.

    This is exactly what analogphiles do all day long. They change arm, cart, etc to get their stuff to Sound good. Digital people miss a trick here. I visit fellow Lampi audiophiles and some haven't heard their GG properly yet. Nothing changes in dacs except the addition of externalities such as cables and isolation. With GG you can change am important integral part of the dac.

    As an analog analogy, the Allnic 3000 phono lost out easily to half priced Zesto. I posted that on another forum and Myles Astor suggested I swap rectifiers. A few months later I did so at a friend's and we both were stunned by the improvement. So I went back to the first place of trial a year later and forget the zesto, the Allnic also took out the Trulife phono that was almost twice it's price. The dealer was stunned. He hadn't realized how powerful a 300 quid recti could be

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    Re: LampizatOr - Any Golden Atlantic, Amber II or Atlantic dac users here? or other recommendations ...

    thanks! that is great insight and very useful piece of information to guide research.

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