Engine 11 is a rather sophisticated DAC board, with 8 separate grounds and 8 separate supplies and regulators and rectifiers.
The regular 11 is like "make it as simple as possible" and the 11P is like "make it the best you possibly can, money is no object". It results in more sophisticated, more...
Hello,
rockna is a very good DAC and it is a hard contender but Baltic4 will have everything that you are missing from Rockna. This is exactly the reason of existence of our company. We have a 7 day test period with refund. You can test safely.
"Btw, would love to hear any further sonic impressions - original Horizon vs. retrofitted Horizon running the 'Taiko Simulator'...."
The simulator uses Taiko signal transfer protocol but the music source is a normal computer and compared with the same material played the traditional way the...
Concerning the retro-fit upgrades of Horizon to Taiko Olympus link - we will do it gladly but AFTER the Olympus is produced and we can test it. While new units are produced blindly on the assumption that everything should work, there is a big cost involved in retrofit work shipping and handling...
Hello, this is the latest weather report from the Taiko Olympus situation at Lampizator. We have 11 units of Horizon partly assembled and with the TAIKO XDMI link built in, and my Horizon guy just this morning ended in the hospital with a knee injury and I just lost a week. I am not sure if...
To keep things tidy and in one place I just added the summary of Lampizator DAC-Taiko Olympus relationship on our website under Horizon description:
https://www.lampizatorpoland.com/horizon
Concerning the retrofits: the nature of this job - many changes in hardware, electronics, firmware, programming, labelling and a sophisticated end test - dictate that ONLY factory can do it. As a bonus we will do a free periodic maintenance checkup and we will issue a fresh bill of health also -...
Hello, we ae sending this week a batch of boards to print, it should take 2 weeks after that and we will be ready. In the meantime we have to create custom firmware package to take care of switching, muting and whole GUI housekeeping. We also order parts etc. Realistically March 01 could be the...
I am chiming in since so much interesting developments happened just this week.
We have been monitoring the development of Taiko new protocol because obviously we never wanted to stay behind. Basically my developments followed on weekly basis every hint of where Emile is going with his plan...
Before going into deiatls I am curious why you think that friends at WBF will help you better than the factory which warrants this product? We deal immediately with all and any issues and never leave people without music. Going nuclear on us suggest that we ignored your request which is not...
To whom it may concern: our price list 2024 has a typo mistake - there is NO Atlantic4 - I got carried away. The Atlantic TRP with Engine 11 has NUMBER THREE. I am sorry for the confusion.
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A New Reference by LampizatOr
We rode the waves of success with our iconic “Horizon DAC”, which raised the bar higher than we ever thought possible for digital sound. But then, we faced a challenge. With all we have learned and discovered in creating the Horizon, the gap between our...
Gentlemen, to summarize the explanation in one place:
1. 12BH7 is an ECC82 / 12AU7 on steroids and in THIS PRODUCT can be used as a drop in alternative. There is no internal change except that for B4 we decided to give you this more pricey and harder to buy alternative.
2. The Engine 11...
Horizon doesn't have any 2nd or 3rd harmonics, it is totally pure and passes only the music thats why it sounds so good even compared to the Pacific (some 2nd hd).
Outboard ps is something I will never do. I test everything and measure everything and came to a conclusion, that psu is best when it is as close as possible to the consumers of the energy. I use supply lines as short as 2 inches and the idea of moving it away 4 feet, adding a cable and...
Whoooooaaa. I just noticed that the first screw was screwed into the chassis of Horizon #98 which means - we should win the bet and make 100 in 2022. At least if we work 24/7 till Christmas eve.
4 days is 100 hours, so I am on track here. Besides, with new gear you really dont know what is settling - electrolytes, foil caps, wires, solder points, PCB traces, transformer, chokes, diodes or maybe tubes.
No, I am sorry, but life of capacitors is not affected by on-off. In DC circuits (and DAC or amp are a DC circuit) caps charge/discharge only once per on-off cycle. But in AC circuits the caps charge/discicarge thousands times per second and they can do it 20 years non stop, trillions of cycles...
The on-off debate is VERY hard to answer competently to say the least.
Tubes were designed to be abused like hell and they withstand anything and everything. After all they are not a watch but just a piece of hard metal in the vacuum. Nothing complicated.
The only way the tube may die is when...
These magnificent Gabi speakers (named Gabi after my no less magmagnificent daughter) are currently for sale. They have 2 weeks on the clock. Height 180cm, weight 220 kg each, 4kilo Watts of power installed in their 8 active monoblocks. All you need is a DAC. The heavy duty stands are thrown in...
I never heard of that rectifier, considering todays prices (KR and EML going up 25%) this is like a bargain. So far the KR5u4GRK is my favourite. I also love the Linlai 6550 pentodes, GEC U52 recti, TungSol KT150.