Lampizator Amplifier


Kondo Gakuon for the rest of us? We just exchanged our correspondence with Mr. Lukasz Fikus and he's providing the brand new Lampizator Amplifier mono blocks for exclusive world first test. Can I tell you enough how much I'm looking forward to hear this new brain child of Mr. Lampizator...
Here is preliminary info:

THE NO-COMPROMISE MONOBLOCK POWER AMPS FOR THOSE WHO NEED THEIR LAST AMPLIFIER

Specification:

dimensions WHD : 450 x 140(250) x 600 mm weight: net 30 kg per each mono
Gross shipping weight of a pair: 75 kg (170 lbs) Power: 30 WPC single ended class A
Power consumption: 195 WPC on idle,

100 W on pre-heating (per each block)
Power Tube: GM70 triode Graphite version
Driver: doubled 6N6P
Input tube 6N1P
Input impedance: 47 K
Output impedance (speakers recommended) 8 Ohm Biasing: manual (with exposed pot and meter) Volume: Stepped input potentiometer ALPS
Power transformers capacity: 700 VA
Rectification: two separate tube rectifiers for HV Anode supply: 900 V DC
Available front colors: black or silver (top always silver
Input topology: one RCA SE
Biasing range: -60 to -140 V DC (covers both copper and graphite GM70s


PRICE 4000 EURO per pair incl. 23% VAT Available: in European Union only, 230 V only

Special Edition
Small signal capacitors: V-Cap CUTF Driver capacitors: V-Cap CUTF Power Tube: Copper Version GM70 Driver: doubled ECC182
Input tube PCC88
Volume: Stepped DACT attenuator

PRICE 5500 EURO per pair.incl. 23% VAT Available: in European Union only, 230 V only

REMOTE CONTROLLED VOLUME addss 800 Euro to the pair price.

Available: in European Union only, 230 V only

REMOTE CONTROLLED VOLUME addss 800 Euro to the pair price.

The amps are not available through the dealer network - only factory direct.

Description:

The amplifier is the muscle of the music system, if the DAC is the brain and heart. I can not sleep well thnking that many LampizatOr DACs end up with transistor amplifiers or chip amplifiers for home theatre. I believe that this amplifier offers terrific value: surely it is not cheap, 4000 Euro is hardly pocket change but it is the lowest price for which a decent amplifier can be built from parts that were not actually stolen but purchased with an invoice. There are no miracles - if someone offers cheaper power amps of this class - he is either selling them under cost to get rid of them or using children slave labor in far away camps. Or simplt the technology has too many compromises like underpowered transformers, underrated voltage specs, undersized caps.

I offer good price because the amps share half of their parts with the lampizator DAC - the front panel, the caps, sockets, small tubes, all input and driver circuits and supplies.

The amplifier employs only the most radically “kosher” circuit features like:

  • Single ended operation from input to output
  • Pure Class A 
  • Zero feedback
  • Zero solid state parts in audio circuits
  • Unregulated and overspecified supplies
  • Separate transformers for each task (three in total)
  • Short signal path - from RCA to pot 2 inches of silver wire, 2 inches of silver wire from pot to first tube, one inch to second tube and a hop across one capacitor to main tube without additional wiring.
  • Tube parameters are monitored on analog needle meter
  • No need for triode matching as the bias is set manually 

Possibility to compensate aging drift on power tubes Pre-heating operation mode for tube saving

All tubes will be available forever in plentiful supply

Tube parameters are monitored on analog needle meter No need for triode matching as the bias is set manually Possibility to compensate aging drift on power tubes

Pre-heating operation mode for tube saving

The signal stages - input and driver are DC coupled (hard wired) without caps, interstage transformers or anything like that
Pots can be bypassed completely by toggle switch for the “power amp” operation mode. 

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