====================================================== After chasing and reading many of the tube rolling reports bunch of "crazy" guys in form of @wisnon, @christoph, David and myself decided to do a quite big session of tube rolling of both rectifier and DHT tubes used in Lampi DACs. As we...

Tube rolling report here where RK 5u4g ruled supreme! https://www.whatsbestforum.com/threads/lampizator-valve-tube-rolling-review-thread.26478/#post-538609

I have to say that the Kron RK 5u4g is a killer rectifier. Outside of the uber expensive Takatsuki and vintage Western Electric, this for me is the TOP recti out there. I use it in a Lampizator Dac.

OK, Astro, we are in near perfect agreement.   I didn't want you to make a mistake, you are one of my forum favourites, so I am obliged to put in my 2cents! LoL

Astro, the AMR is a lovely Dac but it is not a discrete R2R resistor ladder dac. It uses a TDA multibit chip and small triode output tube. This is more comparable to the old Lampi Level4/5 Dacs. The CH Precision uses BurrBrown 1704 multibit chips.   Basically, the latter 2 are CHIPPED designs...

Astro, you have to note what type of PCM these German guys have. I myself had R2R since a year ago and a month ago it returned with a firmware upgrade for the Ladder and it cuts the gap to DSD considerably. You saw the Customer Dac shootout from Fla that I posted. That was all PCM. Look at the...

And also went against WAF and agreed to get the Huge Lampi Dac!

From AudioShark  a few days ago:   Well you won a customer shootout in Florida: Originally Posted by Moneypenny View Post I have to share my story of a high end DAC shootout. As Mike knows, I got to know him through Audioshark Forum. Elsewhere in this forum you can learn that Mike (Suncoast...

Meanwhile on another forum, we have real world firsthand experience:   "Well you won a customer shootout in Florida: Originally Posted by Moneypenny View Post I have to share my story of a high end DAC shootout. As Mike knows, I got to know him through Audioshark Forum. Elsewhere in this forum...

Lampizator makes a Headdac model...ie Dac + amp. It can drive most HP...notably Senn hd800 and BD Tesla T1...not Hifiman HE-6 though.

I won't drive these WONDERFUL  3.5ohm HPs either...The ERGO AMT. http://precide.ch/eng/eergo/ergo.htm   Testing out a pair now with the Ergo 2 as well. Man ...these AMTs are GREAT!

Is it Balanced? If so no 2a3 or 300b in Bal mode. I SE mode, all can be used in the back row. I think Tube Depot in the US has 6A3 reasonably priced. AL had a good cheap source at one time. Heblives ghe Sylvania Greenleaves and the Tungsol. Others swear by the VT52..which is a similar tube. On...

Paul, the Nagra Dac is very vey good as well. Had a demo evening with it last year at Stenheims in Switzerland. The only obvious weakness is the lack of DHT tube rolling like in the Lampi. DHTs are magic.

I hated the hugo, but think the DAVE is very very good. Though I prefer my Lampi Golden Gate (most musical and tonally accurate dac out there), the DAVE i CONCEDE is a serious player. The Yggy is only "good" in my humble opinion. Enjoy the purchase. Rob finally delivered to my expectations. I...

HEAT dissipation!  When running the Bal in SE mode, you can use any DHT pair at the back.