Lampizator DSD DAC

[Geardaddy]

Norman, we both know what the answer is....GG balanced. He's in love. Bruce has been pining away for some time....

 

[Mike Lavigne]

slow weekend here on the Lampi thread.

 

[Bruce B]

Indeed a slow weekend!

Yes, weddings, extended family, ex-wives and travel sometimes get in the way of fun things to do! My beloved Lampi DSD DAC has been sold. Didn't take long for someone to snatch that up. They're really in for a treat.

As for my next muse ?, I have a Balanced GG w/o volume control on order from Lukasz. Can't wait to hear this beast. If it arrives in time, I will be taking it to RMAF for everyone to hear!

 

[wisnon]

Not before you invite Mike L over to hear it. LoL

 

[wisnon]

Norman, we both know what the answer is....GG balanced. He's in love. Bruce has been pining away for some time....

Who knew. LoL

 

[Geardaddy]

slow weekend here on the Lampi thread.

LOL. Indeed. Keep that ball in the air!!! Norman, L needs an Instagram account to keep us buzzing with real time developments....

 

[Geardaddy]

Indeed a slow weekend!

Yes, weddings, extended family, ex-wives and travel sometimes get in the way of fun things to do! My beloved Lampi DSD DAC has been sold. Didn't take long for someone to snatch that up. They're really in for a treat.

As for my next muse ?, I have a Balanced GG w/o volume control on order from Lukasz. Can't wait to hear this beast. If it arrives in time, I will be taking it to RMAF for everyone to hear!

So I was correct....congrats to you.

 

[wisnon]

LOL. Indeed. Keep that ball in the air!!! Norman, L needs an Instagram account to keep us buzzing with real time developments....

Lol, true. FaceBook, just not cutting it.

 

[amirm]

Moved the recent posts on ripping SACDs to http://www.whatsbestforum.com/showthread.php?3341-Ripping-SACDs-the-right-way

 

[Bruce B]

Moved the recent posts on ripping SACDs to http://www.whatsbestforum.com/showthread.php?3341-Ripping-SACDs-the-right-way

Thank-you Amir!

 

[Bruce B]

Wow, your first 4 posts have been spamming us with this DAC. You must be affiliated with this company.

 

[Doak]

Wow, your first 4 posts have been spamming us with this DAC. You must be affiliated with this company.

This individual is spamming every Lampizator forum thread he can find.
This is the fourth instance I have run across today

 

[Blizzard]

May be spam but I am curious to hear a DAC that uses the AK4137eq SRC. Anyone know of any other DAC using it?

http://www.akm.com/akm/en/product/detail/0056/

 

[Priaptor]

Question for you DSD Lampizator owners.

Now that Roon has been integrated with HQPlayer, I have been dabbling and must say am impressed with everything being upsampled to DSD via HQPlayer.

Right now I am using MSB Diamond Plus IV. I guess the unit I would be interested in would be the Golden Gate Balanced DSD. First anyone have a chance to compare the MSB to the Lampi I am interested in? Second are most of you using HQPlayer? Third general impressions as now that I first starting to hear the benefits of HQPlayer, I must say I am impressed in my limited time hearing it.

 

[Bruce B]

I had the MSB Diamond in here for a few months and can say that the PCM was some of the best I've heard. In DSD, there were several DAC's that could surpass it and the MSB was quickly replaced.
I can say that the best DSD I've heard so far is my Lampi Balanced GG and Merging Horus.
I also use HQPlayer for a year or so and switched to Audirvana+ and eventually ending up with JRiver.

 

[FrantzM]

I had the MSB Diamond in here for a few months and can say that the PCM was some of the best I've heard. In DSD, there were several DAC's that could surpass it and the MSB was quickly replaced.
I can say that the best DSD I've heard so far is my Lampi Balanced GG and Merging Horus.
I also use HQPlayer for a year or so and switched to Audirvana+ and eventually ending up with JRiver.

OT
Out of curiosity is the Horus both an ADC and DAC? If it is a DAC , how good is its performance on PCM?

 

[Bruce B]

OT
Out of curiosity is the Horus both an ADC and DAC? If it is a DAC , how good is its performance on PCM?

The Horus is 6-slot modular system with as many A/D and D/A configurations as it can hold. It's performance in PCM is very good. Not quite up to the Trinity/MSB, but I'd say equal to the Playback and older Lampi. I haven't heard the new Lampi R2R PCM yet.

 

[Priaptor]

I had the MSB Diamond in here for a few months and can say that the PCM was some of the best I've heard. In DSD, there were several DAC's that could surpass it and the MSB was quickly replaced.
I can say that the best DSD I've heard so far is my Lampi Balanced GG and Merging Horus.
I also use HQPlayer for a year or so and switched to Audirvana+ and eventually ending up with JRiver.

Bruce,

So in your opinion, converting all PCM to DSD through the Lampi, was it better (understand "better" is very subjective") than native PCM through the MSB? Also were you using the new Quad rate cards with the MSB or the older cards?

Thanks

 

[Alrainbow]

You may not want to hear
Ot from me. But for me with the old or new dsd 256 engine it's better.
How is simple it exposes the dsd of the msb to being mechanical while the lampi is
More musical it's not just me either who here's it this way. Now PCM I feel goes to the msb but again luk has loaded a new PCM engine and it's more like dsd but still harder than dsd
A big improvement.
Then add tube rolling so it makes my IRS v go from tame to almost Beasty is a marvel in its
Self
Lastly I am not a fan of up sampling but this new PCM engine gets me there without up sampling. This is my observations with a music server as source win 2012 and AO 1.4
Amd all the rest of it. Good luck and enjoy it if you have one

 

[Bruce B]

Bruce,

So in your opinion, converting all PCM to DSD through the Lampi, was it better (understand "better" is very subjective") than native PCM through the MSB? Also were you using the new Quad rate cards with the MSB or the older cards?

Thanks

I up sampled everything to keep it simple. I was probably using the older cards since my audition happened in 2013.