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Preamplifiers: keys to mystery – or…. how a preamp might be not only a load-driving gadget.
Years after years the preamplifiers are being a “terra incognito” of audio people. I admit that preamps are a subject of my persistent curiosity. I was alway...
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Hi Romy, I've read several of your posts on audio asylum where you indicate the L2 is far to superior to the L1. More recently on this site you wrote, "the X-factor of L1 (the ancestor of L2, that BTW was way better preamp from many perspec...
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Ethan,
Since I published the article “Preamplifiers: keys to mystery” I received many emails from my site visitors asking about Lamm prams and questioning my remarks in comparing what I said to “data form other sources”. Some people disagreed or sur...
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Hi Romy,
Thanks for your comprehensive reply. Based on your description, the L1 might be a good match for my system and taste. I tried the L2 and didn’t think it was nearly as veiled as you describe, clearly everything is relative. I also expected t...
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It six month as Lamm released his LL1 preamp but I do not see any “jitter” about the sound of the unit. Even the Lamms’ leash-driven, in-house bitches from Soundstage do not publish any “review”. I did not see even any talk online about LL1. This is ...
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[quote user="steverino"]I think my statement " Because we can't map it precisely from the stage to the speakers..??" was on the right track. Yes there is a distortion of spatial information from performance to speaker in the same manner that a ...
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It six month as Lamm released his LL1 preamp but I do not see any “jitter” about the sound of the unit. Even the Lamms’ leash-driven, in-house bitches from Soundstage do not publish any “review”. I did not see even any talk online about LL1. This is ...
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“Do you hear the people singLost in the valley of the night?It is the music of a peopleWho are climbing to the light.”Les Miserables
PREFACE
I would like do not shape this article as a review: I do not write “reviews” religiously and I have many re...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] For now, the amplifiers I use are a pair of Lamm M1.1s (was going to look for a pair of used ML2s, but more and more considering building a pair of Meliquaides). Using the M1.1s with a pair of V.A. Parsifal/Encore (direct...
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Ethan,
Since I published the article “Preamplifiers: keys to mystery” I received many emails from my site visitors asking about Lamm prams and questioning my remarks in comparing what I said to “data form other sources”. Some people disagreed or sur...
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Preamplifiers: keys to mystery – or…. how a preamp might be not only a load-driving gadget.
Years after years the preamplifiers are being a “terra incognito” of audio people. I admit that preamps are a subject of my persistent curiosity. I was alway...
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Positive Feedback published David Robinson’s review of Lamm M1.2 amplifier.
http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue34/lamm_1.2.htm
Frankly speaking I do have interest to see what people might say about Lamm M1.2. Not that I care about a review’s ob...
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Jessie, this is a whole idea: do not get a signal into the ML2. It is NOT an operations sate but juts immediate testing. Do NOT short the ML2 input when preamp is connected to ML2 XLR inputs. By shorting the amp’s inputs you hear the inner-noise of t...
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I like to stress a point that the mammals that write thier doodles for audio publication are not juts ignorant fools but also the cheap, low class, falseificators. No wonder that the audio manufacturing companies do employ the so-called reviewers as ...
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Who read the article above about the Lamm L1 and Lamm L2 preamps knows how high I prize the effect of spacious reengineering that Lamm preamps do. I call it the X-factor and was not familiar what it was and hot it was accomplished. Obviously it was d...
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A few days back I visited an audio person who demonstrated to me his experiments with extreme lateral deviation of souses. Regardless if I agree or not what he was doing or trying to do the demonstration has an unexpected result. One day I was driv...
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Regarding L1 and L2 outputs and bi-amping:
Romy wrote:"...The unfortunate part is that if you still intend to run a dedicated cable to your let say LF section and if you use Lamm preamp then you can’t... his preamps (L1 and L2, I do not know h...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]I should mention that with all the wonderful things it does, the L2 (preamp) definitely deserves a fresh pair of 12AX3s and a 6C19P. (I have not changed them since starting work on the horns... all tubes are exactly one ye...
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Yes, it is a bit ridicules to have 4 boxes – a clearly money-raising project. Probably Lamm need to make it 2 chassis init with box #5 is to store manuals and box #6 to store the tube replacements. Talking about tube – one gain state with 4 paral...
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I saw that one of the DSP processors has an option to put a pair of "rear-type" ambience speakers in front, along with the main speakers. I am probably describing it incorrectly, but this sent my mind waay back in the GSC archives, to the days of res...
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Hi,I'm new to "Romy the Cat's Home Page," was impressed when I read a thread comparison of the Lamm L1/L2 linestage, which prompted me to post here. While I'm not an electronic's wizard (gift is mechanical), audio has been part of my life, dating bac...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Scrolling down to the images of the Lamm ML2.2, I see something that intrigues me...
Four ML2.2s are used to bi-amp the Verity Audio speakers; I didn't know they could be daisy chained by using both the XLR and RC...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"] In your earlier piece about how to use the S2 'properly' you wrote
"Whatever happens between the 400 and 2,5 is pretty much unnecessary for you garbage. So, get any known to you soft capacitor of 3uF and place it in serie...
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It kind of strange that so many manufactures produce preamps, so many users use preamps but no one talks about them seriously. The dealers sell them, the reviewers write their doodle but the manufactures do each year a new version but what we, th...
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Will I be listening to all my sources via the inverse RIAA?
Well, the question was sarcastic but it has some rational grains. If the signal passing via the 834PTF-Air does receive some positive attributes despite of the presumed nastiness of t...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
[/quote]Somebody Breuninger bought Lamm ML3 and L1 to drive his Coincident and share his finding on TAS blog. Regardless how mature his comment are but there was something unavoidable – the wipe-ass professional with na...
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I tend to look at specs even though they might not tell much about sound. I saw that one of the DSP processors has an ambience type phase injection option for a pair of front ambience-type speakers, along with the rear ambient speakers. I am probably...
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[quote user="steverino"]I think my statement " Because we can't map it precisely from the stage to the speakers..??" was on the right track. Yes there is a distortion of spatial information from performance to speaker in the same manner that a ...
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[quote user="Stitch"]Probably that's the background to go for a 2 x mono Preamp [/quote]Hm, that is want “common sense” suggests being but I do not subscibe it. Fist is because the X-factor is not Lamm’s commodity, unfortunately. None of the Lamm’s c...
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[quote user="Paul S"]All the criticism notwithstanding, Lamm is clearly one of the most interesting amp builders out there, and IMO he is someone worth watching… [/quote]
Unquestionably, and it is what I do - watching. However, here is where I have ...
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