Need some Lampi help please

Ron Resnick

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Took delivery the Pacific last night. I fired it up this afternoon and left the house with music playing. Just now sitting down to have a listen, AFUCKINGMAZING. Truly a new level of enjoyment and overcome with that happy giddiness, overjoy feeling. No need to change my speakers as I was contemplating. I'm using the PX 25 tubes over USB. Lukazs has offered the RK 300s. What to do? Also can someone tell me how to use the ground on the rear panel.

One little gripe I do have, given the high gloss gold offering, why is it that I have numerous long scratches and white/silvery smudges on the surfaces and selector knob? And no I can't wipe the marks off. Am I being too anal? Anyone else experience this?

No, I think you’re not being too anal. A brand new component should not have any scratches on it; it should be aesthetically perfect.

These components are very expensive, and we can be as anal as we want to be in the perfectionism department.
 
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@Golum

Appreciate your wise words. Thank you much. Bliss indeed.

@ Ron

Glad you don't think me crazy whiny ; )
 

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Why cant you Lampi experts be in agreement on a freakin tube to make a potential Lampi owner life a little easier.
 

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Why cant you Lampi experts be in agreement on a freakin tube to make a potential Lampi owner life a little easier.

We are. 242 and then PX25 and Lampi 45s.

Rest is mostly just Justin posting
 

wisnon

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Why cant you Lampi experts be in agreement on a freakin tube to make a potential Lampi owner life a little easier.
Where is the fun in that? Eml300bxls is supposed to be good too, And Justin preaches about the vintage ad1. Personally on some music I think the 6a3 is great and the vintage 45s too. Before my tube died, I really enjoyed the vintage WE 101d.
 

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Where is the fun in that? Eml300bxls is supposed to be good too, And Justin preaches about the vintage ad1. Personally on some music I think the 6a3 is great and the vintage 45s too. Before my tube died, I really enjoyed the vintage WE 101d.
Ok. Keep on rollin baby. :cool:
 

dminches

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Why cant you Lampi experts be in agreement on a freakin tube to make a potential Lampi owner life a little easier.

Says the man that has 2 turntables (Or 3), 5 or 6 tone arms and the same number of cartridges! :p:p
 

dminches

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We are. 242 and then PX25 and Lampi 45s.

Rest is mostly just Justin posting

Maybe in a Pacific or GG2 but not a Big 7.
 

dminches

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Remind me your fav tubes again?

(Right now) they are the Tak trio of 300B and 274B. I also really like the Sylvania 6A3.
 
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I reckon from all the posts PX25 is your best bet on average in anything i.e. Big 7, GG any version and Pac.

We will be checking out vintage AD1 in GG soon.
 

wisnon

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Heihei does...for example. Lend him a pair.
 
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We are. 242 and then PX25 ......

Tang,
I agree w Ked. As to be expected, flavors vary depending on your unit and your system. But there is broad acceptance that the KR 242 and the RK KR PX25 are perhaps the preferred output tubes and the RK KR 5U4G is an excellent rectifier although the 274 rectifier is also highly regarded (and sitting on my shelf awaiting trial). However, no matter what you wish to evaluate in the Lampi world, the options are rather simple compared to the sheer morass that confronts the typical audiophile in deciding upon the many TT's, cartridges and arms that are available which can render you comatose before you achieve audio nirvana. In addition, the cost of entry to evaluate all of 4 different tube types is a pittance by comparison to the analog world and you don't need a stack of cards to figure out how to put a tube in a socket. :cool:
Marty
 

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Yes...top shelf vinyl is very intimidating. You need to master geometry as a subject...Azimuth, tracking force, effective length, overhang, skating, load capacitance, EQ setting, wow and flutter, shape of needle, step up transformer, low or high compliance, MM or MC or other cart tech, suspension, drive tech, isolation....I could go on for days. Art as much as science.
 
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Yes...top shelf vinyl is very intimidating. You need to master geometry as a subject...Azimuth, tracking force, effective length, overhang, skating, load capacitance, EQ setting, wow and flutter, shape of needle, step up transformer, low or high compliance, MM or MC or other cart tech, suspension, drive tech, isolation....I could go on for days. Art as much as science.

Agree completely. I for one do not buy into the assumption that you can optimally set VTA correctly if the quantitation is limited to 250 microns, which is the approximate thickness of a playing card. I think you need resolution that is in the 50 micron range to really optimize that setting. Now one might think that's just OCD in excelsis, and in fact that might be true. However sadly, even if true, it still doesn't account for the differences in LP's that we all surely play. I know a few people who actually change VTA with standard vs 180gm vs 200 gm records but since I do not, it's still a hard reality that once again, "good is the enemy of perfect." Fortunately, good enough is sonically quite good and very pleasing, even though I know it may not be "perfect". And as far as azimuth and tracking force? Don't get me started.
 
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