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In the Thread: A new strange but predicable Lamm LP2.1
Post Subject: A new strange but predicable Lamm LP2.1Posted by Romy the Cat on: 1/5/2014
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Lamm announced that he introduced a new phonostage: LP2.1.
http://www.lammindustries.com/PRODUCTS/LP2.1%20introduction%20booklet.pdf
This is kind of strange move. The LP2 was very bad phonostage; despite all industry medals and huge amount of glowing reviews it got it was truly a piece sonic garbage. I saying it very confident because I was the last Lamm that I owned and I hated it as no other piece of equipment I had. The LP2.1 has to be update of LP2 and it is in a way is. The external power supplies, I wonder why not 4 boxes but two. The new tubes: 6C3P replaced 5842/WE417. The 5842 was a problematic chose (I do not like sound of this tube) but 6C3P is Russian remake of it. Is it better? I did not use but Russians who used it passed very negative comments. They might be wrong but 6C3P was not Russian development but rip off of western tubes – those type of the tube never were good. So, I wonder if Lamm decided instead of buying of $5 tube to buy now $.5 tubes. Those increased donation to GOP are so costly…
The output impedance 2.8K…. hm… this is kind of too high, isn’t it?
The 40 and 60dB gain is very low number at my estimation. 60dB gain obliges to use preamps with high gain while use low output cartridges. The noise numbers are good but it is just with 60dB gain. It looks like there is no provision for cartridges loading… The same 20dB transformer as the LP2 had… sucks…
For sure I can not speculate how the new LP2.1 would sound. The changes Lamm made might be truly marketing BS to collect from his users a new round of financial contributions or if might have “some” sonic merit. I suspect, and it is true conjecture on my side, that LP2.1 will be able to demonstrate to the people who sing odes to LP2 that it is “better” phonostage but they would be essentially the same unfortunate people. If you feed a person all of his life by rotten eggs and then add some nice French souse to the rotten eggs then the people would note the “improvement”.
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