The review of the MC1 on parttimeaudiophile.com :
https://parttimeaudiophile.com/2020/06/07/lampizator-vinyl-phono-mc1-review/
https://parttimeaudiophile.com/2020/06/07/lampizator-vinyl-phono-mc1-review/
Lampizator Vinyl Phono stage arrived
- Thread starter shakti
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On Friday night I received a package from Greg at G Point audio, in the package was my new rack manufactured by hORNS.pl and the new Lampizator MM MK2 phono stage. This is the latest revision in the smaller case and has solid state rectification. It was late when the courier showed up on Friday and I managed to get everything back together and left the phono stage on overnight to warm up.
On Saturday morning I spun some vinyl using my Ortofon Rondo Bronze MC through my Denon SUT. The Denon SUT is quite versatile in that you can put 2 arms into the SUT, so I setup my Spacedeck with the FR64s arm and Denon 103 MC cart for comparison purposes.
From the get go I was very impressed with the MM Mk2 phono and felt it could only get better, I’ve left this on 24/7 and I feel that using the MM phono with a SUT was far better than when I tried the original MC1 phono earlier on in the year, maybe the pre-set loadings of the MC1 phono had didn’t suit my cartridges at the time?
One thing that grabbed me with this phono was the bass articulation, kits very extended and deep. I tend to play quite a lot of Jazz nowadays and have a decent selection of Blue Note and ECM pressings, playing Dave Holland Life Cycle (ECM 1238) was a revelation even though on this recording he plays solo cello you could really pick out the detail and depth of the instrument.
Another noticeable was the surface noise was much lower, although the published data on the phono stage gain has not yet been released I did get an inclination that the gain was set to around 50db which could be contributing to this?
It’s still early days with this phono and I’ve got to pass it onto a colleague on Thursday who will do some more testing but I do feel that at the price point it’s a very good phono and can be tailored to MC carts with the right SUT.
I’ll be playing more vinyl over the next few days to get a better understanding. The UK dealer did say that it would take around 100 plus hours of running in and probably sound its best when at 300 hours.
Untitled by henleymajor, on Flickr
Untitled by henleymajor, on Flickr
Untitled by henleymajor, on Flickr
On Saturday morning I spun some vinyl using my Ortofon Rondo Bronze MC through my Denon SUT. The Denon SUT is quite versatile in that you can put 2 arms into the SUT, so I setup my Spacedeck with the FR64s arm and Denon 103 MC cart for comparison purposes.
From the get go I was very impressed with the MM Mk2 phono and felt it could only get better, I’ve left this on 24/7 and I feel that using the MM phono with a SUT was far better than when I tried the original MC1 phono earlier on in the year, maybe the pre-set loadings of the MC1 phono had didn’t suit my cartridges at the time?
One thing that grabbed me with this phono was the bass articulation, kits very extended and deep. I tend to play quite a lot of Jazz nowadays and have a decent selection of Blue Note and ECM pressings, playing Dave Holland Life Cycle (ECM 1238) was a revelation even though on this recording he plays solo cello you could really pick out the detail and depth of the instrument.
Another noticeable was the surface noise was much lower, although the published data on the phono stage gain has not yet been released I did get an inclination that the gain was set to around 50db which could be contributing to this?
It’s still early days with this phono and I’ve got to pass it onto a colleague on Thursday who will do some more testing but I do feel that at the price point it’s a very good phono and can be tailored to MC carts with the right SUT.
I’ll be playing more vinyl over the next few days to get a better understanding. The UK dealer did say that it would take around 100 plus hours of running in and probably sound its best when at 300 hours.
Untitled by henleymajor, on Flickr
Untitled by henleymajor, on Flickr
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