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In the Thread: Initial thoughts about new/old Lamm ML2s

Post Subject: An important statement to make.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 7/19/2012

I would like to point out to a very important moment that took place in here. I do presume that Jessie account is very accurate and the Teflon sockets were bad. I even presume that they were bad not only from the perspective of cooling but were bad sonically. BTW if they were bad from thermal perspective then it might be addressed by running very think copper wire (let say 4ga or 6ga) right to the socket’s pin and it would sock out the temperature out of the pins. Still, it is not the point. Jessie use vintage sockets and they look like work fine for him. He even reports that they sound better. The point that I am trying to make is the non-reasonable estimation of the improvement that come from the replacement of the sockets.

Jessie reports that the sound become beautiful and engaging, so engaging that he does not sleep at night and listen all time. I absolutely insist that THIS type of change did NOT come from the replacement of the tube sockets. Here are many factors: musical, social, esthetic and many other that might make a person to spend more time for listening enjoyments. They are valid factors and they might even to be triggered by some kind of trivial changed in audio setup. However, there is absolutely no way that the replacement of tube socket, cable or a tube would open up listening mind and make person to change his listening habits. I do believe that the event of change the sockets coincided with other events in Jessie live/habits and THAT lead Jessie to spend time with his playback. I absolutely do not believe that change the sockets made the difference Jessie claims. This is how the faulty audio legends are born. I would like the readers of this site do not play (even with themselves) the audio legends and to be a bit more intelligent toward to themselves, own motivation and the result of (own) actions.

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