We might just take you up on that pretty soon Steve
My partner and I along with our wives and 6 other couples will be going to San Francisco, Tahoe and Vegas to celebrate our 40th birthdays as practically everyone in our gang is 1970 born. We'll be there first week of November.
Disclaimer too. Lamm was not available over here and we wanted it bad. Since we were having pretty good success with distributing Von Schweikert and a client who bought VR-9s wanted Lamm amps, we decided to apply for the distributorship and got it. This led us to carrying Critical Mass Systems too but that's another happy story.
We've been pretty successful with Lamm despite our small market. Successful enough that my partner and I were eventually able to get Lamm equipment for ourselves on top of the mandatory demo sets from the proceeds of our sales. Audio and maybe to a
much lesser extent watches, art and automobiles being our only vices, we see no harm in getting high on our own supply. Food matches audio though hence our trip to finally get to The French Laundry and some other notable dining experiences there :lol: My partner has an LL2 and ML2.1 driving DB-99s. Like you, I can't say enough about how eminently pleasing the entire line is despite the lack of remote volume controls on the preamps. The best part is that we've been able to play with everything in the Lamm range (pre-Signature models) in myriad configurations. Having heard your ML3s for myself at CES in a system coincidentally almost identical to my own system from cartridge to amps with the exception of VR-9s instead of Maxx 2s, I long for the day I can call a pair or quad (what do you call 4 piece monoblocks anyway?) my own. If the day job continues to go well..............
Vladimir and Elina are great to work with. Straight forward, efficient, no fuss, no drama, and lightning quick response. Best of all, in the last 4 years no single piece we've sold or owned has ever needed any form of servicing other than the tube changes required yearly for the L2s and ML2.1s which frankly could have easily gone another year or two perhaps since at the time of changing there was still no noticeable sonic degradation. This in a tropical country with questionable bass load electricity, high heat and humidity where the bigger Premier CJs are known to blow regularly. Add reliability to the list of positive attributes.
So yes Steve, we'd love to see your place as I've read about it a lot. Hope to meet you this November!