I had a few brief conversations with Alex yesterday at the SF HeadFi meet, and he told me that they're near reaching the 500 cap limit, but no matter how many ways I tried to 'twist' him, he would only tell me that they're getting close. He also re-iterated what I've read, that after this batch they're not sure if they will continue production nor how much the price will be. Also when asking him about the circuitry, I recall him mentioning something along the lines of "discreet circuitry" and how it uses no op-amps for a cleaner sound. Sadly my memory is hazy on the exact wording but if somebody wants to elaborate on those points that would be a great read!
Absolutely. Now the sound of this amp is something that will not fade from my memory!
Instantly, the sound from this amp gave me a super surreal feeling of spine-tingling energy! Somehow I fairly quickly came up with these words to describe the LC's sound performance: It has the energy of a tube amp, but the detail of a solid state. Knowing this isn't a tube amp, what I meant is that the sound this produces seems slightly skewed towards the sound you would expect from a TOTL tube amp in terms of energy / organic lifelike-ness / lushness, but with all the detail you could expect from a great solid state amp. It seemed like the sounds were "always out of your head", and I meant this in a good way. I tested it out with the Alpha Dog headphones and my Sennheiser HD 650's, and especially with the 650's I seemed to always get a sound in which each instrument was pristinely placed in it's proper position of the soundstage, almost so that nothing sounded like it was coming from any 1-dimensional place!
. It accurately reproduced the frequency response low to high, was very lifelike and ever so slightly leaning towards 'musical', had paranormally good soundstage, and maybe what I liked even the most was the impact 'slam' how it handled the likes of drums in a pleasing way. Warren and myself both seemed to agree this is the best amp under $2,000.
PS- the LC amp was also being fed music from a "Cypher Labs Algorhythms Solo -db" DAC, connected to it with TOTL balanced cables, and was using a sort of electrically shielded power chord as thick as a snake, which I'm sure had influence on how it sounded so amazing.
