Lampizator Golden Gate

Mike said:
Yes. It's a big mamby jamby.
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Thanks Mike! I'm really happy to hear that you are enjoying your big beautiful copper baby. You get all the coolest toys. :) Although I've only been able to listen to the Lampi GG and B7 on the AVShowrooms videos, I can already hear how organic these units sound. I can't wait to hear one at one in person at one of the audio shows. I think the GG or B7 would sound awesome in my system and would be a great complement to my K-01. I think I would probably go SE over Balanced with my Soulution 520 Pre, especially if it means less tubes.

Enjoy,
Ken
 
Ken,

I think the GG and the B7 have exactly the same dimensions.

Mike,

I am hearing good things about the EML mesh plate 45s too!
 
Posted on Facebook on May 20th:

Dear All ;-D , I have wonderful news to quote : this is what came from Lukasz's Labs today ;...
" Dear All,
I am extremely pleased to announce officially the entire DHT series to be balanced now.
We have the BIG PCB for Lite 7, GG and Big 7 in a 4-tube balanced mode.
It does not hum, does not overheat and it sounds better than anything I ever heard.
This is truly shocking how good it sounds on our 211 PP amps. Everyone agrees that this is a knockout. I think we are onto something good.
The first test proves that we can use 101D, 45/245/345 and also 6A3’s
No 2A3 and 300B is a maybe. Probably not.
Anyway since there is 4 tubes I think people will be MUCH LESS likely to roll quads of nos.
I think most people will stay with what we supply."

Best regards
Lukasz Fikus
LampizatOr
 
Alpinist said:
Posted on Facebook on May 20th:

Dear All ;-D , I have wonderful news to quote : this is what came from Lukasz's Labs today ;...
" Dear All,
I am extremely pleased to announce officially the entire DHT series to be balanced now.
We have the BIG PCB for Lite 7, GG and Big 7 in a 4-tube balanced mode.
It does not hum, does not overheat and it sounds better than anything I ever heard.
This is truly shocking how good it sounds on our 211 PP amps. Everyone agrees that this is a knockout. I think we are onto something good.
The first test proves that we can use 101D, 45/245/345 and also 6A3’s
No 2A3 and 300B is a maybe. Probably not.
Anyway since there is 4 tubes I think people will be MUCH LESS likely to roll quads of nos.
I think most people will stay with what we supply."

Best regards
Lukasz Fikus
LampizatOr
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Very cool news!
 
I see that on the new Lampizator web site, it refers to the Golden Gate DAC as the "Gucci DAC". Apparently they haven't heard about the new MSB Select DAC that clocks in at a starting price of $89,950. Makes the GG seem affordable! :)

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$90,000? What's in it for $90,000? Do you know the kind of system one could build for $90,000? Holy cow.
 
And that's just the base price! For an additional $9,950 you can get the Femto 33 clock; another $19,950 for dual power bases, and $3,995 each for additional inputs that you may need. Get your orders in soon! :lol:
 
audio.bill said:
And that's just the base price! For an additional $9,950 you can get the Femto 33 clock; another $19,950 for dual power bases, and $3,995 each for additional inputs that you may need. Get your orders in soon! :lol:
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I saw that. The base price is $90k. Didn't need to look at the Add-On price list at that point.... :)
 
All these manufacturers are targeting the ultra rich Asian market. No one in their right mind would spend $90,000 on a DAC elsewhere. If you just want state of the art from a well established company, just buy the Berkeley Reference DAC for $16000 and save $74000!
 
apdoc2004 said:
All these manufacturers are targeting the ultra rich Asian market. No one in their right mind would spend $90,000 on a DAC elsewhere. If you just want state of the art from a well established company, just buy the Berkeley Reference DAC for $16000 and save $74000!
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Or better yet, buy the Lampizator Big 7 or Golden Gate and get state of the art DSD and PCM and save many $ in the process! :)
 
bmoura said:
Or better yet, buy the Lampizator Big 7 or Golden Gate and get state of the art DSD and PCM and save many $ in the process! :)
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Add a Kronos Limited and you have two incredible sources AND saved money.
 
Mike said:
Add a Kronos Limited and you have two incredible sources AND saved money.
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That MSB DAC price gives all of the high end DAC makers room to bring out higher priced units and still be seen as affordable, relatively speaking. Not that I am encouraging Lukasz or others to get carried away..... :)
 
To put some ownership perspective to this before I bought my stack. I had tried many dacs. From cheap to somewhat expensive nothing I heard came close to it. But I did buy there new then server the UMT plus. The DAC I bought has the updated clock . I did demo the plat and the diamond in home and at store several times. . To hear the music I loved played Ina way that just made me smile and my small brain at ease is amazing , an example is the mytek and its sound. It's dsd is nice but no real dsd but it's PCM was needles in my brain. And please do not take offense to those who own them as I do. Not until I built my Cust caps did the mytek sound nice even with PCM. Although the UMT plus did help,it but not like the server. As I could tell the change from plat to diamond I could not pay the price for it. It was actually was more hard and less musical. But the level of details was the same to me as mine that I bought .
Now it will,cost me about 20 k to upgrade the one I have to the new diamond 5 . Something I would like to hear . Now since then I have bought a few others one being the ps audio DS as an upgrade for the pwe mkii I owned. A DAC I never liked . Now a comparison to the B7 and the msb. While the msb did sound better Ina few systems that I bought it too as a mini meet. None came to the level of it. Last year I got my first B 7 as owning it. I did test a coup,e of them first. There is no doubt the
B7 is special and way above its price point in sound quality . I did a 8 hour marathon with a friend winsin from here and other sites. I had on hand a few dacs for him to try and did not say actually how I felt of some of them. I will,not say how he felt of some well acclaimed dacs. I did say they were well below the hype but the look on his face was priceless. Now the with PCM they are close but tube rolling wins it as for the lampi. Where the msb bests it is in two ways. Low level details no doubt and the black from witch the sounds come from. The details while Ina quite passage is just more detailed for you to hear what's playing while most dacs including the lampi play soft passages and we hear stuff. But with the msb it's not stuff it's still playing music just very soft. But tube rolling gives us so many choices and a tube like the 101D gives levels of deatils that is like hearing our music all,over again.
Now dsd a very delicate flower that few dacs I have heard do,it right . The lampi beats it hands down its just so much more musical , maybe it's the tubes but I feel it's his method that does it right. Even in complex loud music the lampi does it well. As long as the server is well the music plays well. But this is much more critical with dsd not so much with PCM. I find hard to beleave that if one hears the B 7 or golden gate they would walk away feeling it was a let down . I think more likly they would feel why is it so cheap .
 
Pride of ownership is the reason and if one has the means and wants to have what most do not. It's there. I asked what a select even meant. There is no real answer it's pure godly bull. It's aged like beef and measured for perfection. There is always tolerence in all of our devices the select is the nearest to perfect.
Read about the trinity dac. They take thousands of the same chip and match them to use its supposedly the reason it's so good.
There was a time in my life would own one. But at this point I force myself to make me warrant it. And I fail at doing it. Almost every time. My new setup is usin aragons as I sold my krells
You know I will not stay with 8008BB. FOR SURE
on my infinity IRS V.
I am thinking of goldmunds need I say more. This is high end audio there is no rym and little reason we do what we do. Look at still points
For our devices this drives me crazy but plenty swear about them. Little disks they cost hundreds each and many models to kick from too. It's insane
So why not a diamond select that's ages to perfection. I wonder if it's rubbed down woth wine daily. Lol.
Al
 
FlexibleAudio said:
Bonzo,

See above. Right now I have a verbal from Lukasz to play ball. I plan to discuss this with him tomorrow.
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I'm also very very interested in this. I used a cheap USB to spdif converter Gustard U12 ($145) to with my L7 Lampi. The improvement was very worthwhile. It also has I2S. Obviously, it won't work with DSD for Lampi. There are some other little known chinese USB to I2S converter like Tanly, Melodious (check headfi) that are suppose to be even better than Gustard. Headfi has feedback that Gustard is better than Audiophilleo + pure power. And having first hand experience with the improvement Gustard made with my Lampi, I really want Lukasz to make a I2S DSD input for Lampi. This will allow me to try other USB to I2S converter.

Any update from Lukasz on this?
 
Welcome to the forum Radiohead, thank you for joining. Sorry for the long wait to be approved.
 
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Photos sent to me by the local dealer, Audiosound P/L. Really highlights the rich hue of the copper chassis.
 

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apdoc2004 said:
All these manufacturers are targeting the ultra rich Asian market. No one in their right mind would spend $90,000 on a DAC elsewhere. If you just want state of the art from a well established company, just buy the Berkeley Reference DAC for $16000 and save $74000!
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Trinity people will disagree. LoL
 
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