Lake People and Violectric gear is hand-made in Germany.
The employees of the company earn sufficent money with their work
so that nobody of them is forced to have a second or third job after work.
They live in condos with a roof on top, they have enough to eat,
their children can go to quiet good schools for free and they can count
on a reliable public transportation system or own cars.
Beneath a 25 years experience with lots of (outstanding) products which have to be developed,
this is also what the customer pays for.
Everybody may feel free to buy his stuff in the far east
but nobody should cry afterwards when suddenly his job own job is obsolete.
In the past Lake People products often were judged as:
working perfectly - looks like a fridge.
Violectric was the answer for people who demanded more.
Please note that the case of V100 is more expensive than the entire G100.
Moreover V100 has selected semi-conductors, "musical caps" in the signal path,
more smoothing capacity, Pre-Gain adjustable from the outside and
more space inside for optimized signal tracing.
The technical base of all these headphone amps is not as "simple" as claimed in some posts.
All amps are working with 60 volt supply voltage (+/-30 volt split supply)
what is hard to find in other designs. So the output voltage reaches 20 Veff / +28 dBu.
This is essential to drive high impedance cans - see posts of "waterlogic".
Here is the (translated) conclusion of a review (source: Violectric / Press):
" My hearing test proved in practically every discipline clear advantages for the Violectric HPA V200.
It showed very exactly illustrated transients, delivered clean impulses in the area of low frequencies and was convincing with much finer details and an outlined, defined bass reproduction. My other amplifiers pointed out blurred transients which tended to be pulled wide in the time domain
and decreased impulses discernible without strain, also with deep frequency which sounded rather spongy.
In the same manner a clearly better localisation on the stereobase, a more differentiated picture of the acoustical rooms and progressive depth rates revealed from the V200.
To say it with a sentence, the V200 simply sounded classes better (compared to the headphone outputs of a CD player and the Benchmark DAC), comprehensible under any circustances with both headphones (Beyerdynamic DT880 / Ultrasone edition 8).
I had the impression to put on a better headphone together with the Violectric product."
