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In the Thread: Lamm ML2.2 and Mark the BS teller.

Post Subject: Lamm’s Hi-Fi frequency pusherPosted by Romy the Cat on: 2/2/2012

Stitch wrote:
I wanted to do that, but they are so rare and I found nobody to visit.

Well, let me give you my version. I know ML2 quite well and I made a number of people to buy it, not soliciting them but rather demonstrating to them the results I got with ML2. Then I visited the people who got ML2.1 head what sound they dot and I was very puzzled. It was not the sound that I was getting in my home, even if I abstract the rest not-equal conditions. I need to say that at that time I did not differentiated between ML2 and ML2.1 and to me it was all the same Lamm’s SET. Then I begin to observe the pattern – the ML2.1 always sounded wrong. It was not “bad” but it was very different sound from ML2. One day in 2004 or 2005 I visited a local guy, well not exactly local but within a reasonable driving distance, who had both ML2 and ML2.1 in his room and I had a chance to hear his MAX with both of the amps. It was very clear that the amps are very different. The ML2 is very authoritative but very kind and gentile. This amp is amassing – it always right but it dictate it’s rightness with very kind mannerism. The ML2.1 in contrary was not right or wrong amp but rather “stupid” amp. It was literally “frequency pusher” and instead of sophisticated sonic phasing ML2.1 pushed an array of disconnected sounds. There was something else that was VERY annoying, in fact that made me to want vomit what I heard ML2.1. If you hears a very high compression digital file, not dynamic compression but digital compression, than you might heard the very disgusting whistling that takes place after the actual sound stops. This is not even the whistling but the felling of some kind of dry sand is keep dropping in sound after the decay passed over minus 20-30dB. To my surprised and disgust the ML2.1 had the very simile effect and I was able to recognize some “residual sand dropping” effect. Of because there is not DSP in Lamm ML2.1 but something in that amp did create the effect that I described. My presumption is that it was the output transformer. The reason why I think so because I have another guy who bought ML2.1 during the very first month Lamm stated to make them and his amp did sound like ML2.0, which did not have any of the above mentioned effects. From other unconfirmed channels I learned that Lamm in his first run of ML2.1 used some leftover components from ML2.0. Since the ML2.1 officially had a new output transformer I think that this new transformer was not good. Now, I do not make any claims about the ML2.2 and I do not know if it has the sound similar to ML2.0 or similar to ML2.1. I do not think that it even will be know as I was the only know person who took vocal anti - ML2.1 position. Since I do not have any longer any speakers that might be driven by a full-range amp I do not think that any Lamms will make in my home. BTW,I know a few other Lamm users who very much did not like ML2.1 and absolutely agree with me but they are in a stage to kissing Lamm in ass during his diarrhea and they never admitted the fact publicly.

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