I had thought you heard the ML2. My mistake.
Romy writes many interesting things on his site. And his opinions are strong. Note this comment about the ML2 compared to its successors and ML3.
“I do not have any disappointment that there was no serious public overview of ML2. I have quite low esteem to audio public generally and to the people who facilitate public overview in particularly. It has nothing to do with cynicism but rather with objective observation of the reality out there. It is kind if shame as it never happened as the ML2 is gone and the current production of ML2.1 has nothing to so with ML2 legacy. In addition Lamm, as I understand nowadays abandoned any ideas of good sound and goes to cash out the market of mid 90dB-sensitive speakers buy buttering up his prospective customer on the idea of ML3. It will be basically the "new ML2 type Sound" approach only with the unnecessary 40W, based upon high-voltage-compromised, more powerful output tube.
Regard the rest. You might discover eventually that despite of beneficial contribution of some exotically performing audio-elements and despised that some of them are able to inflict long term listening consequences to listening culture but the only thing that counts is not the capacity of the audio installation but the way in which that capacity is used but the system owner. From this perspective all those audio toys are quite irrelevant…
I’m glad that you are in your way to discover the vintage ML2 – it well worth it. Spend a couple years with those amps – you will observe and learn quite a few interesting things. In 2001 I have written somewhere at AA that ML2 is able to demonstrate it’s sonic advantage even when it is not powered on. I remember that all Morons out there informed me that I was an idiot. They are fortunate that they did not know how it really felt about their competence on the subject or about their primitive understanding what the subject really was.
The cat”
