You are correct, of course, that the Lumin L2 does not have a linear power supply. But Lumin designed it that way on purpose and for whatever reason, it works superbly.
I usually change components or tweak things further when I hear something wrong, however subtle or slight. Right now, I don't hear anything wrong, but instead get great excitement and hear wonderful sonic and musical beauty from my system. So, for the moment, I'm as content with the sound as any audiophile can be.
There were two major recent upgrades which, to my mind and ears, crossed over some threshold and allowed me to stop hearing things at least very subtly "wrong." One was the incorporation of the L2 with the Lumin-recommended fiber optical networking of it and the Lumin X1.
The other was finding two speaker systems, the Graham Audio LS8/1 and the Watkins Generation 4, both of which provide not only a clearer window on what's upstream, but also eliminate so many distortions and resonances present at least to some minor extent with all previous speakers I've owned. The Graham goes deeper and may be more satisfyingly weighty for large-scale classical music, so I may go back to it at some point, but the Watkins is, at least for now, the most bewitchingly beautiful and exciting.
I only wish that it had not taken so many years and such expense to get here. While my current system costs under $50,000 total, over the course of my audiophile career (about 1966 to the present) I recently calculated that I have spent almost $700,000 on audio equipment, recouping only a small fraction of that amount in sales.
I usually change components or tweak things further when I hear something wrong, however subtle or slight. Right now, I don't hear anything wrong, but instead get great excitement and hear wonderful sonic and musical beauty from my system. So, for the moment, I'm as content with the sound as any audiophile can be.
There were two major recent upgrades which, to my mind and ears, crossed over some threshold and allowed me to stop hearing things at least very subtly "wrong." One was the incorporation of the L2 with the Lumin-recommended fiber optical networking of it and the Lumin X1.
The other was finding two speaker systems, the Graham Audio LS8/1 and the Watkins Generation 4, both of which provide not only a clearer window on what's upstream, but also eliminate so many distortions and resonances present at least to some minor extent with all previous speakers I've owned. The Graham goes deeper and may be more satisfyingly weighty for large-scale classical music, so I may go back to it at some point, but the Watkins is, at least for now, the most bewitchingly beautiful and exciting.
I only wish that it had not taken so many years and such expense to get here. While my current system costs under $50,000 total, over the course of my audiophile career (about 1966 to the present) I recently calculated that I have spent almost $700,000 on audio equipment, recouping only a small fraction of that amount in sales.
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