Lampizator Big 7 Review

Mike what other recti do you have. The eml is not my fav. A sophia electric princess was better for me. Again this is choice as i am not one to,say what's better for al,others.
 
Alrainbow said:
Mike what other recti do you have. The eml is not my fav. A sophia electric princess was better for me. Again this is choice as i am not one to,say what's better for al,others.
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I had what Jerry brought me. [emoji3]


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Ok and thanks for replying. So next up the golden gate review right ???? I do hope so.
I have another question. What ws it about the pcm ypu did not feel was good or not to your liking. Please in no way do I feel your wrong just curious.
Al
 
Alrainbow said:
Ok and thanks for replying. So next up the golden gate review right ???? I do hope so.
I have another question. What ws it about the pcm ypu did not feel was good or not to your liking. Please in no way do I feel your wrong just curious.
Al
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For sure!

The native PCM sounded, well, normal. I was on such a 12 hour high from DSD, that the PCM was like a bubble bursting. The PCM lost the texture, the tonality magic, the roundness that was so magical with DSD. Upsampling PCM to DSD brought back some of that magic. BUT - let's remember this key point - Jerry had very little time on the PCM side of the Lampi. He had put the majority of the break in time on the DSD side. So, with 100 hours on the PCM side, who knows?

I would love to have tried 101D's with PCM too.


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The 101 d are A detail monster but they also are very linear more so then any other tube I have . They were made to be very accurate so least color . They are very fast and dynamic. But fir me they have so much detail it detracts from the wholesome sound a bit on some music. But I truly will give details you may not have ever heard. Given thus hyper detail it may be the one for PCM for you. For me PCM has bit while DSd is smooth . This is how my brain feels anyway. My msb makes PCM great but it's hard and it's dsad OS great to but it also is hard. There is some magic in the lampi that gets me to want to stay there. But the msb does have some pros. The noise floor is lower but its nit just the silence the msb gives more low level detAils. More so than any dac I have ever heard . On a strict detail view it beats all of my stuff. But the lampi gives me details I want to be close to. More real if that makes sense . While I am sure the msb is more accurate , top audio is more about making us want to stay there and smile. The lampi does this in spades and then rolls tubes just to make sure the synergy can be for everyone. Weather luk was a genius or it was an accident either way why didn't anyone else think of rolling tubes. My DS dac rolls frimwares and with the new jplay 6 it's pretty good but my server is 6k easy and tweaked meaning not for the faint of heart to use nor setup. The lampi does its magic on most desktops or laptops. A true magician at work with a simple towel and it still gives us the wow at the end anyway.
When you can try the princess recti it just might give some magic in PCM.
Also ps vane makes a good recti to. I have ordered a pair. I Also have a pair of Air Force 596 with the adaptors not my fav but is my fav in my woo wa 5 amp. The tube seen is complex but again lampi seems to make it simple and still be great meaning just new tubes that we can buy easily.
I also have a pair of the real now 101 d. They a re good but the metal base psvane are also just as good and again new not 90 years old.
Thanks for All. you kind and honest thoughts very nice read.
Pal
 
Jazzhead said:
Mike , great review ! Fascinating read . Thank you for taking the trouble . Are your views based on the new dual 256 DSD boards ?
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I'm 95% sure they were installed in my Big 7, as I did request that option. But I have not tried any of that material yet.
 
Loop4fun said:
Mike, I'm sorry if you addressed this, but did you try to feed it with the BNC digital out from the Lumin and you Synology NAS at any point in the review?
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It would be an awesome PCM front end though !! I'll have to try that combo tomorrow.
 
Al - what is your absolute favorite tube combo for your Lampi (brand and type)?


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Thoroughly enjoy reading this whole thread. I am what you'd call an average audiophile, but would love to try a lampi one day. Nicely done and one phenomenon review, Mike.
 
Hi Mike,

Thanks for writing such a well thought out and thorough review. Your writing style is very easy to follow and leaves the reader not wanting anything additional. You covered all the bases.

Boom.
 
I know that was directed towards Al, but I've begun a love affair with the EML 45 Anniversary Globes. Unfortunately they've been discontinued, but these things are incredible in the Level 7 DACs!


By the way, for any of you that will be at AXPONA this weekend, come check us out in the Higgins room in the lobby, room 504 and on display in the headphone section.

Best,

Fred A.
LampizatOr North America
 
kzhtoo said:
Thoroughly enjoy reading this whole thread. I am what you'd call an average audiophile, but would love to try a lampi one day. Nicely done and one phenomenon review, Mike.
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MikeCh said:
Hi Mike,

Thanks for writing such a well thought out and thorough review. Your writing style is very easy to follow and leaves the reader not wanting anything additional. You covered all the bases.

Boom.
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Thanks guys. Appreciate the kind words.


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Gopher said:
I know that was directed towards Al, but I've begun a love affair with the EML 45 Anniversary Globes. Unfortunately they've been discontinued, but these things are incredible in the Level 7 DACs!


By the way, for any of you that will be at AXPONA this weekend, come check us out in the Higgins room in the lobby, room 504 and on display in the headphone section.

Best,

Fred A.
LampizatOr North America
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Thanks Fred.


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Mm. Tubes.

Great review, Mike! As time moves forward, I may post a couple reviews here at the Shark. That said, I need to make it known here and now that NONE of them will be as thorough as your write up for the Lampizator. Thanks for taking the time to share your experiences with us. :)
 
Zero said:
Mm. Tubes.

Great review, Mike! As tome moves forward, I may post a couple reviews here at the Shark.
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Thanks for your kind words and please do post your reviews here. Looking forward to your first one.


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For all the people running balanced setups, I just got this answer from Lukasz about his 211 push-pull amp:

This is our best product to date, outshadowing even the DACs. It is not a typical push-pull, which sounds inferior to SET because of damned PHASE SPLITTER circuit. In our amp we do not split the phase, we do not touch it. On the contrary - our monoblock is effectively TWO SET mono amps in one chassis that share a summator output transformer. So not only the signal is as pure as SET but it also gets error cancellations and humming cancellation due to mirroring of the signals.
All that is possible only with true balanced XLR inputs of balanced audio, but our DACS are all balanced internally. Even the Big7 and Golden Gate are now available as balanced.

211 amp unlike many others has ONLY ONE amplification stage in input section - one SET 803Ecc. And it has extremely powerful White Follower drivers per each phase. All in all the amp represents the simplest purest form of 100 W power possible.

Lukasz Fikus
LampizatOr
 
Good morning mike. I actually do not have a favorite setup. It varies for my systems and headphones. The elrog 300b. They are the most detailed 300b tube I have or have heard. Next up would be the globes . But they are unobtainable even though I have three pairs . The recti,s. Are as important as the drivers. So try a few and of rme it's the Sophia but I have the ps vane on order it's a Westinghouse replica . The air force ones that are great in my amp are not in the lampi. Again this is my observation and if there is any one word for lampi to coin it's unique and I mean this as individual for each of us. The dac has something that each of us that we will learns to like . Of the 6A3 the sylvania green base and the tungsol black are very good. But most of the 6A3 have the sound of them with slight variations. The 101D I have are the metal base. And there is a difference from the white base ones. On a system that needs the most details and still has a good bottom end they are great tubes. Very clean but they must be in the right setup to shine. Oh yes one last tube Sophia makes a 300B carbon. It's nice but rolls off the top. So try but do not buy . Also a grewt tube is the we300b ps vane I use this in my woo also it's very clean sounding.
Al
 
Alrainbow said:
Good morning mike. I actually do not have a favorite setup. It varies for my systems and headphones. The elrog 300b. They are the most detailed 300b tube I have or have heard. Next up would be the globes . But they are unobtainable even though I have three pairs . The recti,s. Are as important as the drivers. So try a few and of rme it's the Sophia but I have the ps vane on order it's a Westinghouse replica . The air force ones that are great in my amp are not in the lampi. Again this is my observation and if there is any one word for lampi to coin it's unique and I mean this as individual for each of us. The dac has something that each of us that we will learns to like . Of the 6A3 the sylvania green base and the tungsol black are very good. But most of the 6A3 have the sound of them with slight variations. The 101D I have are the metal base. And there is a difference from the white base ones. On a system that needs the most details and still has a good bottom end they are great tubes. Very clean but they must be in the right setup to shine. Oh yes one last tube Sophia makes a 300B carbon. It's nice but rolls off the top. So try but do not buy . Also a grewt tube is the we300b ps vane I use this in my woo also it's very clean sounding.
Al
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Shawn has the WE vintage 422a recti and loves it. I have many rectis and my fav. is the metal base GZ34 and you have one too as I mailed it to you. Great bass and as one guy on the roller forum said...minty fresh fragrance!

I dont have the fat bottle U52/GZ37 (Cossor/Mullard) which is highly sought after. I have the slower skinny bottle Mullard. However, I have the fabled and cheap mercury vapour Type 80 and 83v rectis (with adapters). I have many other GZ/5R4 and 5u4g rectis from the Barn to try.

I really need to start serious evaluation now that my system is finally stable.
 
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