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el`Ol wrote:

Some facts: The Japanese horn scene uses colored amps like 300B and prefers to buy Japanese amps. American horns are mostly slightly modified pro gear, quite a bit away from the price range Lamm has in mind, so the market there is not larger than that in Europe (where he would have to work hard to get as legendary as in the US).

el`Ol, I would argue the view about the nationally of horns. There is no (at least as I feel) such a thing as Japanese horns of American horns as better home-targeted horns commercial manufacturing is not institutionalized and driven unfortunately by very seldom enthusiasts who care less about own cultural tendencies. I would agree that an idea of low-powered, a few watts Lamm, is very interesting, in fact it would be something that would not mind to try in my system. At this point Vladimir is trying to cash out on the people who buy audio based upon the Robb Report advertising. Who knows, perhaps before Lamm retire we will see a Lamm SET around 2A3 or the similar…

el`Ol wrote:

A bit OT: I wonder whether the 6C33 amp from Rank would be a cheaper substitute for the ML2. Rank is also Ukrainian if I remember right, and used to build monster triode amps with good reviews.

I do not know Rank amps, care to post a link? A “substitute for the ML2” is very complicated question, which also is very interesting question. (I mean the ML2.0 not the ML2.1 as there is a good substitute for ML2.1 – it called Krell). There was so much of extremely “loaded” things in ML2 that I truly feel bad that ML2.0 if gone now and that general audio consciousness did not spend necessary attention to that amp. About the Sound of that amp should be writhen books not a few idiotic reviews that had said nothing valuable about the sound of ML2.0 (do not be under impression that ML2.0 also has no problems).

I do not know if you spent time with ML2 if you do then you understand why I feel that ML2 never was understood by audio public. Let me to tell you a story about ML2 and you will be able to put the thing in perspective. There was a guy who became Avantgarde dealer in NY who was trying a few year back different amps to drive his Trios. I might say it now because his business is gone now. I visited the guy twice, he was not partially experienced but he was “trying”. Eventually the industry “got him” and he became one of many institutionalized fools. In the beginning of his business however was capable for some raw sensitively and natural reactions and it was very interesting his reaction after he tried ML2.0. He said to me  “Romy, among all my customers I have nobody who would  truly understand what ML2 does with sound”. It is exactly the plase where ML2 took in audio world.

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