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New Lampizator Level 4/ Version 4 DAC in the house

Wonder if any other new owners of this DAC are out there as I find it to be the finest digital playback I have heard to date. This is the first digital front end piece of gear I have owned that has transformed my music.

Ya, other digital gear does this or that better, but this Lampy breaks through to a new level of musical enjoyment. Clear view into the music helping the speakers just disappear. Only 24 hours of break in and the music flows so sweet, intimate and seemingly without boundaries.

Looking under the hood I see an impressive power supply with films caps and several high quality chokes. Point to point silver wired except for the digital and USB boards. This is a three tube player that is tube rectified. One has the option for SS rectification if desired.

Ya, I love this Lampy!
grannyring
audioengr
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Agear - there are two things that can affect this:

1)if they are using a network streamer, some of these sound identical or very close between FLAC and wav

2) their systems may not be up to the level required to hear the difference

Everyones system is at a different level, so one must take all of these posts with a grain of salt.

Steve N.
Empirical Audio
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grannyring OP
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Steve I was going to say the same thing. The wav and aiff differences are real and some folks can't hear it or their systems don't reveal it. I posted on CA and received lots of help on how to convert to WAV. Some folks could only ask why as they hear no difference. Well some folks don't hear the difference between cables etc....but they are still there and real.

All I can say is just try it. If you don't like it better, then don't do it. I do and am converting as I type!
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grannyring OP
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AIFF files converted to WAV don't sound quite as good a ripping in xld to WAV from the start. Oh my, I can't re-rip all my CDs , but will have to settle for the WAV conversion.
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grannyring OP
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Forgot to mention that Positive Feedback wrote a nice article and defined all these file formats and also reported that on an Apple computer WAV files sounded better than AIFF.
jwm
908 posts
 
I don't hear a difference between ripping cd's to WAV using either I Tunes or XLD.
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