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Post Subject: FederatedMike here :-)Posted by Mike on: 1/21/2015

The permanent link to this particular Lamm room is: Lamm at CES 2015

The show report is indexed and you can find links to this room and 176 others here: CES 2015 Show Report index

About this particular Lamm exhibit room:

Originally the speakers were to be the Verity Audio – Montsalvat speakers. These are expensive and brought the total system price up to a million dollars. The Monsalvat require 3 pairs of amps. So Lamm sent ahead 3 pairs of ML2.2 amps to CES.

In mid-December, Lamm was informed that the Montsalvat speakers were not going to make it to the show - and so sent a pair of ML3 amps to drive the Verity Lohengrin speakers, which were going to be used instead of the Montsalvat.

The ML3 amplifiers do not need any help driving the Lohengrin. But, when Lamm got to the show, with 3 extra pairs of ML2.2 amps just sitting around, they said 'what the heck' [I paraphrase :-)] and played with putting both ML3 and ML2.2 amps on the Lohengrin speakers.

I am sure there were trade-offs, but the higher powered, higher resolution ML3 amps on the big bass drivers of the speakers was at least equal to, if not better, than the high resolution, high-powered amps on the top end of the speakers.

We have a customer with ML3 amps on the Lohengrins. He likes the very musical and forgiving nature of the speakers very much. But they do not reveal the differences between amps as much as other speakers do; for example between the ML2.2 and ML3 amps in this particular exhibition room.

Its disappointing that we didn't get to hear the Monsalvat. Hopefully next year...

-Mike

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