I'm trying to come to grips with your statements and wonder if other owners of the same Lampi you have feel the same way. My only experience with Lampi was their Level 4 DAC I reviewed. I know the Level 4 is much lower on the Lampi food chain, but it is still a tube DAC and it did some things that I hadn't heard digital do before (strictly talking DSD playback). Lots of digital has what I call an artificial noise floor. Below a certain level of sound, digital just stops and goes to instant black. With analog and depending on the noise floor of your system, the sound just keeps trailing off far longer than some people realize. The Lampi Level 4 was the first DAC I have heard that actually can hang onto the music as it is fading out without just pulling the curtain before the music has really stopped.
However, I never had the feeling that my seat had been shoved up on stage and that I was nose to nose with any musician. That doesn't sound like a realistic or natural perspective into the soundstage to me. So my question is, do other Lampi owners hear the same thing Joe is hearing?
Yet.
Low hours ....
