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In the Thread: Lamm’s new phonostage.
Post Subject: How easy to test the Lamm LP1 phonostagePosted by Romy the Cat on: 9/17/2015
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Marc Mickelson published his new infomercial about Lamm LP1 phonostage. I do not use Lamm products but as former Lamm product user I naturally keep looking what Lamm does. 

http://www.theaudiobeat.com/equipment/lamm_lp1_signature.htm
 
I did not read the Mickelson review in details but rather glanced over it in restroom. Even with superficial reading I saw a few factual and logical mistake he did but that is not the point. Marc like any other industry Morons is a spineless creature with integrity of bus stop whore, so my expectation from him is not different then it would be from Adolf Hitler to make TED talk presentation. I would like to talk about something different- about the conceptual testing of a phonostage similar to Lamm’s new unit. 
 
We know that Lamm is potent and that he made a few in my view spectacular products: to a degree L1/L2 and certainly the magnificent Lamm ML2.0. It is very alarming that most of the products that came after Lamm 2.0 were inferior and it started with LL1 and truly reached the summit of misery with LP2. The LP2 phonostage was an interesting beast. Let presume that a perfect phonostage has some kind of abstract index of performing quality with maximum equal to 100. In my estimation LP2 was around 60 in MM mode and around 20 in MC mode. The reason the MC section of LP2 sounded like crap was the Jenson transformer that Lamm used. I do not know if it was off the self Jenson or Lamm developed the specks and made Jenson to wind it, it is truly does not matter. What mattered was that Lamm’s own reference points permitted the final result. 
 
Today Lamm making his Lamm LP1 phonostage that should 35K and shall be reportedly better. It is possible and it still has 2 Jenson transformers. I very highly suspect that they would be the very same crap as Lamm used in LP2 and as in the case of LP2 it would be very few people out there who have brain, eats or guts to recognize that the sound that LP2 did was horrible. So, what the Lamm LP2 users shall be and how all conversations about LP2 shall start? What need to be done is some methodological honesty. A good sounding, stand along step up transformer has to be taken and used with LP2 MM section. If the result were inferior compare to build in transformers then there is all reason that Lamm approached in his LP1 phonostage was serious and sensible. If an external transformer of let say $2K-$3K would be able significantly over perform the built-in transformer then the whole $36K 3- chassis contraption need to be stuck in the ass of the Morons who sell and promote it. 

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