My Lampi journey started out with a Level 4 DSD, then moved on to Atlantic and Golden Atlantic (balanced with volume). After a while I guess I got spoiled with high performing DAC's and kind of forgot how important they are in the system. Somehow I believed technical advancement had come further and that I could live without my beloved LampizatOr.
For a while I was using streamers with built-in DAC's, and I'm not sure if I was trying to fool myself or others, but I kept telling everyone that it was great, I mean it played music, it sounded great, it wasn't bad at all. One day a member on a local forum asked me if I was happy or if I missed something, my immediate reaction was that "I'm super happy, I don't miss a thing".
This phrase about "missing something" got stuck with me though, why did he use those words, maybe I _was_ missing something. That very special feeling that just gets me hooked into the music, the joy and playfulness, that feeling that got me to return 3 times to the Lampi room in Munich last year, just to sit there completely mesmerized and falling deeper and deeper into the music.
Yup, I was missing that!
A few weeks ago I got the Amber III much thanks to reading this thread (among others). I don't know how I can express in words this wonderful feeling of "being back again", it's somehow like a love affair that was interrupted, but we managed to find each other again and now it feels stronger than ever before! The fact that I'm now back on the "entry level", here among all Pacific and GG owners actually doesn't bother me, it just makes me appreciate it so much more, to me this is the perfect LampizatOr right now and it sounds absolutely stunning!
So, I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for getting me back on track again... who knows where it will end this time, but for now this little baby is not going anywhere!
For a while I was using streamers with built-in DAC's, and I'm not sure if I was trying to fool myself or others, but I kept telling everyone that it was great, I mean it played music, it sounded great, it wasn't bad at all. One day a member on a local forum asked me if I was happy or if I missed something, my immediate reaction was that "I'm super happy, I don't miss a thing".
This phrase about "missing something" got stuck with me though, why did he use those words, maybe I _was_ missing something. That very special feeling that just gets me hooked into the music, the joy and playfulness, that feeling that got me to return 3 times to the Lampi room in Munich last year, just to sit there completely mesmerized and falling deeper and deeper into the music.
Yup, I was missing that!
A few weeks ago I got the Amber III much thanks to reading this thread (among others). I don't know how I can express in words this wonderful feeling of "being back again", it's somehow like a love affair that was interrupted, but we managed to find each other again and now it feels stronger than ever before! The fact that I'm now back on the "entry level", here among all Pacific and GG owners actually doesn't bother me, it just makes me appreciate it so much more, to me this is the perfect LampizatOr right now and it sounds absolutely stunning!
So, I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for getting me back on track again... who knows where it will end this time, but for now this little baby is not going anywhere!