My point is that I think the Lamm is very dark and syrupy.
Underdog (System | Threads | Answers)
Oh. I would never had gotten that meaning from your post, so thanks for the explanation.
I owned a Lamm LL2 Deluxe. I thought it had absolutely no color of it's own, yet was a chameleon with tube rolling. I would have never characterized the LL2 Deluxe as dark and syrupy, so perhaps the different impressions we have result from the tubes that were installed in the preamps we heard.
The preamp with stock tubes was lacking some top end extension, and the bass was just a touch bloomy. With Mullard Backburn 12AU7 and Mullard Blackburn 6922 tubes, my LL2 Deluxe was controlled and extended from top to bottom with just a slight touch of softening of the highs (which were outstandingly extended and clear). Swapping in Siemens CCA (or any Siemens 6DJ8 variant) upped the neutrality quotient to a crystalline level. I used it with a Moscode 401HR, VAC Phi 110/110, and a few other amps that I had in-house to audition during the course of my time with it.
Interesting how we audio nuts can have such diverse opinions of the same components.
