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In the Thread: Lamm ML2.1 "No longer available"?

Post Subject: Might be or not migh be.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 12/6/2010

Paul S wrote:
…. they want to be sure previous clients feel perhaps like the times and technology are passing by them by rather than making them feel like they were sold a bill of goods.

Actually a good point. It presented as “technology change” BS. In reality the more filter chokes is very much irrelevant in THAT design. New power transformer is also irrelevant. Relocation of the fuses is a good thing of cause. The higher quality pc-board I think is BS as it means less costly pc-board to produce. It is very possible that there are new technologies to do the pc-boards, better technologies were available even 20 years back, but it was not what was necessary for the amp. The old technology that Lamm use on ML2.0 was perfectly fine, in fact it was phenomenally fine assembled, as usually Lamm meals was at that time. My interests in ML2.2 are not in the artificial changes but Lamm advertise but in the silent changes that Vladimir might perfume on this amp. I do not know why ML2.1 sounded some much worse that ML2.0 but I presume that Vladimir does. Let for instance that it was a wrong OPT transformer. Vladimir might get for ML2.2 a new better OP transformer but do not publicize it. The reason why I think it might be the case is the price tag. The new amp is just a few $K more expensive then ML2.1 and it very atypical for Vladimir and it juts cover the cost of inflection for the last few years. If ML2.2 would sound reasonably better then $30K worth ML2.0 then the cost of ML2.2 shall be $50K-$70K and Lamm knows it. So, that is why I feel that this new ML2.2 might be a bit cathartic… Or might not be….

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