With our work finished, I drove David to meet his family that is staying with Romy the Cat, about an hour’s drive north of me. I did not know what to expect or what I would hear, but David and Romy go way back. They are great friends and I was certainly in for a treat. Little did I know that I was once again about to experience something very unusual. It was a very interesting afternoon, but one that I will leave for another time.
I named this thread “Natural Sound” because this system is a complete Karmeli system, from power delivery to speakers, cartridge set up to room tuning. I asked David about “Natural Sound”. He said it goes back to when he first heard the original Lamm ML2 and a Lamm preamp in a system. He heard a very special sound and one that was different from anything he had heard before. It was a transformational listening experience. He asked Vladimir Lamm about it. Vladimir replied, “This is “natural” sound.” David struck up a friendship, bought multiple copies of that original ML2 amplifier, became a Lamm dealer, and set about finding speakers that the 18 watt SET could drive. He believes that Lamm electronics are the heart of the system. Everything that followed from that first encounter is his development and understanding of what he now calls “Natural Sound”.
My whole new system once belonged to David, not the exact turntable, but a different sample and everything else. He set it up and fine tuned it in my house. I am thrilled with the sound and could not be happier with the results of his work. I am learning what Natural Sound really means, and I think as the system continues to settle and I listen to more music, I will understand more and more.
The two new ICs need some break in. I may contact David for a mono Ortofon SPU for some classical mono LPs I just inherited from my grandfather, but other that than, I think I am done.
I would like to once again publicly thank David Karmeli for all of his help with my audio system and for his friendship. I learned over the past few days what first rate service and set up mean. Proper set up and fine tuning can take the right system beyond what one is used to hearing. I think of my system really as a complete Karmeli vision of Natural Sound, and I feel lucky to own it and to be friends with David.
As I thanked David for his considerable efforts and guidance over the past couple of years, he told me that his real joy in this hobby comes from helping people who share the same interests, making new friends, and then continuing to spend time with them. I saw this here in my listening room, when we ate with my friends David, Ian and Al, and then when he greeted his old friend Romy the Cat. This is what it is all about for him. Music and systems are the simply the means to get him there. The friendships last.
I named this thread “Natural Sound” because this system is a complete Karmeli system, from power delivery to speakers, cartridge set up to room tuning. I asked David about “Natural Sound”. He said it goes back to when he first heard the original Lamm ML2 and a Lamm preamp in a system. He heard a very special sound and one that was different from anything he had heard before. It was a transformational listening experience. He asked Vladimir Lamm about it. Vladimir replied, “This is “natural” sound.” David struck up a friendship, bought multiple copies of that original ML2 amplifier, became a Lamm dealer, and set about finding speakers that the 18 watt SET could drive. He believes that Lamm electronics are the heart of the system. Everything that followed from that first encounter is his development and understanding of what he now calls “Natural Sound”.
My whole new system once belonged to David, not the exact turntable, but a different sample and everything else. He set it up and fine tuned it in my house. I am thrilled with the sound and could not be happier with the results of his work. I am learning what Natural Sound really means, and I think as the system continues to settle and I listen to more music, I will understand more and more.
The two new ICs need some break in. I may contact David for a mono Ortofon SPU for some classical mono LPs I just inherited from my grandfather, but other that than, I think I am done.
I would like to once again publicly thank David Karmeli for all of his help with my audio system and for his friendship. I learned over the past few days what first rate service and set up mean. Proper set up and fine tuning can take the right system beyond what one is used to hearing. I think of my system really as a complete Karmeli vision of Natural Sound, and I feel lucky to own it and to be friends with David.
As I thanked David for his considerable efforts and guidance over the past couple of years, he told me that his real joy in this hobby comes from helping people who share the same interests, making new friends, and then continuing to spend time with them. I saw this here in my listening room, when we ate with my friends David, Ian and Al, and then when he greeted his old friend Romy the Cat. This is what it is all about for him. Music and systems are the simply the means to get him there. The friendships last.
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