Todd
my entire system is tubes
the Pacific timbre and tone is about as real as it gets.
it’s the real deal
my entire system is tubes
the Pacific timbre and tone is about as real as it gets.
it’s the real deal
Ok I did and sold it for a LAMPIHello Fred,
Thanks for the post. I sent LampiNA an email yesterday regarding AXPONA as I didn't see you in the list of exhibitors. Glad to hear you will be in Chicago. I am sure I will spend some time in your room but even with that it is very hard to tell the contribution of the Pacific in the hostile hotel room environment and a total system that I am not familiar with. But for sure I can see the DAC in person and ask questions etc.
Not trying to offend the Lampiztor products when I said "loads of distortion". Just a general observation of the measurements comparing the best of SS to the best of tube gear. But again I think I may just have to put my left brain aside and embrace my right brain.
I do hope someone with direct MSB experience chimes in.
I am located in Dallas Tx. If you know any Lampi owners in this area maybe I could speak or visit with them.
Thanks,
Todd
Ok I did and sold it for a LAMPI
Almost all Lampi owners had SS dacs before, and compared to SS dacs before purchase.
and to be fair a few went the other way. it's how things go. horses for courses, personal sonic compass, and all that stuff.
I disagree it is horses for courses.
My SS DAC was a Meitner DA-2. I sold it for a Lampi GG2 and never looked back. Lampi is just in a different league.
There's no doubt on the test bench a Meitner is much better than any Lampi DAC product.
This is the cognitive dissonance I am having. The Meitner and MSB are some of the best measuring DAC's on the planet. Noise floor that is vanishingly low and jitter low enough that we are talking electron orbit times . To me these things have correlated to a better sounding DAC in the sense of detail, non-fatiguing highs, spacial resolution etc. But there is just something missing that I have heard before. I don't know if the Pacific is the answer but the way people describe its sonic qualities it is what I'm after.
Mike used the term "Sonic Vision" and I think that is right on. I know what I want to hear. The question is how to get it. My current system is closer than I have ever been but I want to turn it up to 11.
Key words Al...same happened to me...got one to hear (DerSiebener) and there is just no way backOnce you hear it you will know if its for you.
The question is why.
There's no doubt on the test bench a Meitner is much better than any Lampi DAC product.
The only answer is they are subjectively better by being worse.
Good question indeed, but these questions are as old as the hills and still don't have clear answers. It's easy to say that all electrical devices do is amplify or transduct a signal and the most relevant parameters that determine how well they do that are power bandwidth, distortion and S/N. Those we can measure. So the obvious conclusion, at least for me, is that we just don't have a good handle on what the other physical attributes are that are yet to be defined and/or measured, which are a satisfactory surrogate for sound quality. This why most of us can probably agree that in the end, the final arbiter for what we like is listening, and not measurements. Nothing new here. This has been beat to death many times over.
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