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In the Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company
Post Subject: Lamm's OptionsPosted by jessie.dazzle on: 12/28/2007
I don't have a problem with what Lamm has done in offering the ML3 (ignoring the price)... If I have a problem it is more related to how the product is being represented. Representations aside, depending on how it sounds, the ML3 could well be a product that has its place.
With the lack of high-sensitivity speakers available, it seems that Lamm had only three options :
1) Continue selling low power SET amps to be misused by owners of dead speakers
2) Develop his own SET-compatible high-sensitivity speaker system (perhaps with the help/collaboration of a speaker maker... A huge undertaking, but why not?)
3) Develop a more powerful and possibly compromised SET amp that is more able to drive dead speakers... Obviously this is what he has tried to do.
If I were making formula one race cars which invariably ended up in the hands of people who used them mostly only on public streets (driving to WallMart), then I might consider offering a product that corresponded more accurately to what my clients really did with the cars. And yes, relative to the purity of an F1 car, it would be quite a compromise. I would not however continue referring to it as an F1 car.
I would of course really like to see Lamm offer (in parallel) amps that inspire speaker makers to concentrate on high-sensitivity offerings... A no-compromise 5-watt SET for example. Offering a DSET solution would be really interesting, but I don't see how it could be done without knowing exactly to which load (speakers) the amp might be paired. This would seem to require working closely with a speaker maker... But once again, why not? Lamm certainly has the credentials and the contacts...
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