The Sound of Pacific: The Newest DAC from Lampizator
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visited the Lampizator room at RMAF twice to hear the new Pacific dac. first time it was early and they were still in somewhat set-up mode.
second time better, more settled.
first impressions were that there is fundamentally more information than my recollection of the last upgraded version I had of the GG in my system (this was a full spec SE GG as of 12/15/16). lower noise, more refined and sophisticated. it sounds more out of the way of the music, and it gives less of it's own signature. great transparency and texture.
this is very provisional as this is a show and all that stuff. but.....congrats to Lukasz and all the Lampi faithful.......your new thing seems for real to my ears.
and in person it's beautiful. has very elegant lines and scale.
second time better, more settled.
first impressions were that there is fundamentally more information than my recollection of the last upgraded version I had of the GG in my system (this was a full spec SE GG as of 12/15/16). lower noise, more refined and sophisticated. it sounds more out of the way of the music, and it gives less of it's own signature. great transparency and texture.
this is very provisional as this is a show and all that stuff. but.....congrats to Lukasz and all the Lampi faithful.......your new thing seems for real to my ears.
and in person it's beautiful. has very elegant lines and scale.
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Thanks Mike..drooling..so I guess this is not the final version yet because the screws are out? No stacore footers? And this is the Balanced with volume control? I just wonder if no VC, there shouldn't be any knob at the front, right? Just the display alone.
No attempt to maximise the performance of the setup re. Isolation of all equipment and not using the Pacific grounding post?
Always amazes me when exhibitors do not try. Is this a time constraint or apathy?
If I were Lukasz I'd be 'kicking butt'
Always amazes me when exhibitors do not try. Is this a time constraint or apathy?
If I were Lukasz I'd be 'kicking butt'
The Bal unit can run SE using only the rear tubes. Been a feature of Lampi for years.
This clock? http://www.pulsarclock.com/Clock.html
420 euro? I was told that the clock in Pacific is very expensive...
Respectfully, there was a lot more going on than you give us credit for. As Mike noted, his picture was taken as we were still setting up, and less than an hour after those speakers were swapped into place (huge ordeal).
The current position of those speakers is completely different after setup.
The amps are not carelessly thrown on the floor, but rather are resting on Sistrum SP-103 stands.
Similarly, the SK is coupled to the newly designed flight case (we wanted people to see it) via Lou of Daedalus Audio's DiD devices.
You are correct though, that more performance can be extracted by talking measures with grounding.
Eur420 IS very expensive for a usb clock and several times what the entire Amanero receiver card costs.
on a forum in which we can contemplate the virtues of an Abendrot Stute Master/Reference Clock at 40 thousand USD....it's all relative.
Mark, it maybe expensive in comparison to the clocks, installed in other Lampi dacs, but it is not expensive considering the overall cost of Pacific, GG or GA. I fact, I would gladly pay $500 more to install it in my L4 if this was an option
Mark, it maybe expensive in comparison to the clocks, installed in other Lampi dacs, but it is not expensive considering the overall cost of Pacific, GG or GA. I fact, I would gladly pay $500 more to install it in my L4 if this was an option
But it is expensive as a single component, one of many many components used, and is up there with say duelund caps or EML / KR tubes. I suspect few other dacs in this price range have such an expensive clock. For your L4, there is already the superclock usb option costing around eur300 and this is widely felt to be a worthwhile retrofit. There is also an aftermarket option from ackodac costing around the same.
Coming back to the Abendrot, I’m going to go do some research on this unit but would be interested to see what clock module it uses. By way of comparative, commercial satellite GPS masterclock modules can cost around $1500.
Thanks Gopher, I appreciate the clarification and sincerely wish you and Lukasz the best during the show.
Blue58
Let's decide if Lukasz installed this USD 40K clock, we will be paying for Euro 29K minus Euro 420 but plus USD 40K. I'd rather buy a car than a DAC.. LOL..
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