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Tommy wrote:

I believe that you are right on the LAMM issues look at the sewers! The market is flooded with them and everyone wants to sell them including dealers and private folks. I have never seen so much Lamm crapolla for sale as in last few months.

I do not think that you are correct saying that “everyone wants to sell Lamms including dealers and private folks”. Sometime it might be more Lamms on second hand marker and sometime less. There were some periods on in past when market was flooded with Lamms. It happens with all brands and it hardly depending from the performance of the equipment but rather form the amount of pissed reviewers, dealer and distributors. I have to note that in case of Lamm it is very spacial subject as the Lamm Industries has a phenomenal, truly legendary ability to screw up own vendors, business associates and customers. Still, the second hand saturation is not really the factor that portrays the performance of a company’s equipment. The problem with the contemporary Lamms is Sound of his amps, and since the contemporary Lamm buyers/owners are completely clueless about Sound then I do not anticipate that they dissatisfied with what Lamm offers today.

You see, this is a problem: quality of people who put the Lamms in their homes is going down very rapidly. I do not mean the “quality of people” as is but rather their level of understanding and utilization of audio as tool for something noble or valuable. Today, the majority of Lamm users are juts the Audiogon-type junk who went for the Lamms juts because some people, including me, told then to do so.

A few years ago, before  the Jorge W Bush's production of ML2, to use ML2 was very interesting journey. ML2 did something very interesting and I know an army of speakers that ML2 made to performs at totally different, completely unexpected level. It was very fascinating and very educational al to see how the different speakers, topologies and technologies would react to the certain ML2’s integrity, and partially the ML2’s vibrant integrity. Today’s production of ML2 sounds worse then any single loudspeaker that I ever heard with this amp. In fact, the ML2 become really dangers for Sound.

I have some friends of mine who complained to me about it and I have even dealers who contacted me and complained that they can not convince their customers that Lamms sound OK anymore. I really do not know what Lamm is thinking himself today nor do I care. The sonic demise of the Lamm Industries it was something that I forecasted in 2001 and it was one of the many reasons why at that time I banned Lamm form the circle of the people with whom I socialize. I’m NOT so happy to see that I was correct again, as I feel that Lamm might be quite promising… However, I deal with the realty of the facts and the fact are not very pleasing when I'm  looking at the performance of the Lamm electronics today…

Rgs,
The Cat

PS: Another funny part that when you look at the Audiogon then you would see that older Lamms are being sold much less that the “newest”. This is very funny as the older amsp should be at least 10 time more expansive then the newest production. Only God knows what the Audiogon idiots have instead of brains and ears

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