American Sound AS-2000 Installations- Far East (Tango)
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Still having the three turntables - EMT927, SME30 and the Forsell. But they have a secret agreement of not playing the same LP more than once in the same week ... At best I can listen to one side in one of them and the other in another ...
I hope so Mike. I think they could be a better match to my speakers. My Cessaro is very easy to drive and certainly does not need 85 watts to get the drive the dynamic. I hope they are keepers. Physically, boxes and boxes of Lamm really dont do well with my already limited space.
Thank you Mike
Tang
Dear Khun Tang
I am very happy you are giving the Lamms a try. As many people know, Lamms are voiced according to a psychoacoustic model developed by Vladimir. While they do measure very flat, Lamm does have a very special characteristic. My theory is that models are indeed influenced by the culture. In Vladimir's case it is an eastern european flavor evocative of the great composers and soloists of eastern europe. I am sure you will be drawn in by the nuances and inflections as certain notes and chords will suddenly cause deep emotional responses. The kinds that make one swoon. I ca't wait to get your impressions particularly on voice, strings, woodwinds and brass.
Emjoy your latest exploration!
Best
Jack
I am very happy you are giving the Lamms a try. As many people know, Lamms are voiced according to a psychoacoustic model developed by Vladimir. While they do measure very flat, Lamm does have a very special characteristic. My theory is that models are indeed influenced by the culture. In Vladimir's case it is an eastern european flavor evocative of the great composers and soloists of eastern europe. I am sure you will be drawn in by the nuances and inflections as certain notes and chords will suddenly cause deep emotional responses. The kinds that make one swoon. I ca't wait to get your impressions particularly on voice, strings, woodwinds and brass.
Emjoy your latest exploration!
Best
Jack
Grounded in hundreds of hours of blind and double blind listening experiments with large pools of test subjects. Data converted into models using differential equations. Models into topologies. Only a small number of topologies passed more tests. His designs are like deductive conclusions that follow from his mathematical codification of real-world real human listeners. The elegance of sweet genius: design audio gear based on the way we actually hear with the ears we have.
But was he catering to asian ears ? Tang will let us know !
Based on my interviews and research,I believe it is. Mr. Lamm was the Chief Design Engineer of Research and Development at the Lvov Radio & Electronics factory in Soviet Russia. He had the resources.
Thanks for the confirmation, Jack.
The research period straddled the mass market shift from LP/FM/Tape to Digital, so yes.
Sure thing Tim
Vlad was also involved in the comms research for the Cosmonaut program. Russians may have sucked compared to the west when it comes to consumer goods but State/Military was competitive. The tube choices of Vlad are not so subtle hints of his distant past before Ukrain's independence same with Victor K of BAT. .
I'd really love to know more about this. I can imagine doing a series of blinded A/Bs, different tubes etc, and coming to a group consensus.
But to talk about differential equations etc, now I'm lost.
But to talk about differential equations etc, now I'm lost.
All Lamm phonos use shunted SUT circuits for MC. So we are SUT-ing by default. On order you can specify the ratios for the LP2s and LP2.1s. The Signature has a low and high ratio.
Of all the externals I've tried the only one that gave the Lamm custom Jenzens a fight were Silvercore. In any case, if one does want to try, both models have excellent MM inputs. The tough part is finding the right cables to use with external SUTs. I use Masterbuilt (obviously
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No different from extensive market testing. It's a lot of statistical analysis from tons of data. Kinda boring stuff for most and that's the reason you don't see it in any of the marketing materials. What is obvious is their house sound which while subtle, is IMO unique.
My main system may be CH now but my love for all things Lamm has never waned. I've just ordered E5s and a pair of Shockwave 12s to go with a full Lamm Reference Suite fronted with an AF2 with a 4-Point and likely the latest EERA digital stack.
I've been begging for over a decade. Vlad just isn't interested. Heck I've been begging for remotes on the pres too and I know for a fact I'm not alone LOL
Thomas Mayer is abs reluctant to go much higher than 30W on his SETs too. Ditto remote control.
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