The latest issue of The Absolute Sound (Issue 230, February 2013) features several reviews of some interesting equipment however the review of the Lamm ML2.2 Single-Ended Triode Amplier (monoblock at $37,290 per pair) by editor Robert Harley is not one them. The headline of the review asks the question: "Can an 18W Amplier at 3% Distortion be World Class?" To which Mnyb, I and several other forum members would answer with a resounding NO!!!
Harley's conclusion offers these tid bits of insight: "it's not for everyone or every loudspeaker", "it won't deliver the bass extension, control and dynamics of less expensive solid-state designs" "You must also be prepared to make front-panel adjustments using a voltmeter, as well as to replace tubes periodically." Sounds like a winner to me :) For those of who may wonder why I even have a subscription to one of the magazines that I love to bash, the short answer is because the subscription is dirt cheap, as are subscriptions to print edition of most magazines these days as the print periodical business dies a very slow death. And the reviews of interesting equipment include the Wadia 121 Digital Decoding Computer (aka DAC), which I haven't read, the DSPeaker Anti-Mode 2.0 DualCore Digital Signal Processor, which I haven't read, and the Classe Audio CP-800 Preamplifier, which I did read and while the product is very interesting (it's an analog/digital preamplifier with a high quality DAC and digital signal processor) the review is truly terrible. The reviewer fails to take the equipment through all its paces nor even give a description of the many features offered by this very advanced piece of hardware but he does manage to throw in many of those time honored audiophile phrases like "transparent window", "image stability" and "refulgence" (I confess that I had to look that word up). Check out the Classe web site (http://www.classeaudio.com/delta/delta-cp800.htm) for more info and be sure to download the owner's manual to get some idea of what I'm talking about. More to follow once I read the other reviews. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97944 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
