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Just ordered a Lampizator Amber output stage "kit"

I hesitate to call it a kit because the board comes fully assembled but you still wire the transformer to it and mount it in your DAC (if there is space).

So what, you might ask, am I strapping this tube output stage to?? Well, it is my Kinergetics KCD-55 Ultra DAC. The output stage died on it and I decided that rather than try to have the solid state output replaced I would go with a tube output stage.

Why do I think this will be special? Because Lampizator has been getting a great reputation for making truly great sounding DACs and my Kinergetics has arguably the greatest commercial DAC chipset ever put on the market, the Ultra Analog D20400 20 bit DAC module. I have a feeling it will be right up there with the all-time great DACs because it was already better than most but with just a bit more SS "bite" than one should hear.

I have never heard a STAX X-1T or other top end tube DAC with this chipset but I have been so impressed with the Kinergetics with SS output that I really think I might get something to rival good analog.


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Topic - Just ordered a Lampizator Amber output stage "kit" - morricab 13:33:19 12/04/14 (5)

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