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lampizatOr DAC Generation 3 announcement
Updated Sept 27th 2010
CEC TL51X Belt
Transport
New
teachings of dr Lamppizator - about how to fight humming plus a few more
A
short meeting with an old friend - BAT VK-D5 CD player
The big duel of transport kings: who will remain on the throne ? CEC
TL0_X versus Audio Note CDT-Five
Audioromy 813
power amp. Must read for Music Angel modders
Update about the
300B / 2A3 / 45 DAC
Project
Antalya - my latest attempt on the World's Best Transport using
Squeezebox wifi converter.
Update
on the Krell after the upgrade of HDCD filter chip to ASE Audiotuning
filter.
New Chokes in the Szop
Audio Note on
level ZERO.
Krall
And Krell from Hell
Ming- DA or
Ming-Niet ? That is the question
The Tube Tester Project
The Szop
(L-Shop) is pretty much up and running, more or less.
The most
radical Lampizator DAC ever - the 300B Lampizator DAC !!! (World
Premiere)
New SPDIF recipe for
Squeezebox modders
New Mikro Pre
Sheng Xiang project
New teachings: how to test an amplifier
under full power
The new commercial part of the website: The L-Shop
Ultimate
preamp monstrosity designed from scratch
The triumphant
return of the Behringer DAC in new clothes
A legend from the
land of grey and gloomy - Sugden CD-21
American
Cheap High End - Audio Alchemy ACD-PRO player
GM70 amplifier -
update about the copper plate triode version
A short
meeting with AMC player
A Mikrolampizator in
newSRPP version
The birth of the first
Mikrolampizator !
The Helios Stargate
meets Mephisto Audiomeca
the Lampizator
molesting one of the world's greatest DACS
ever made: Tube Technology Fulcrum
O
Kurwa ! Ale Ultracurva !
At
last - something to admire not to criticize ! Teac Esoteric VRDS P2
transport
Update on the CEC
TL-1X and the non-X model.
Update on the battle of 9 DACs
Update
on the Kenwood DP-x9010 Transport
Update on
the Goldmund/Pioneer DVD transport
Recent
Lampization update on the new
TDA1541 monster Godzilla of DACs- The Bloodac4,0
Analog
Devices DAC kit AD1865 NOS.
A page
with shortcuts with teachings of Lampizator
Some tips about triode
design for novice
Technics
SL-Sp700 player from Pewex lampized
Doctor Lampizator finally goes full monty
digital with the introduction of Hard Drive Music Center
Teac
VRDS D-10 and our love - hate relationship
One of the
best CD players currently in a shop - Pioneer PD-D9 (a
wannabe Wadia)
Battle of transport -
latest follow up with Kenwood X9010 trying to re-gain the throne of
transports.
Battle
of DACs revisited.
Audio
Note cheapest CD player AN-CD1
AH
Lite NOS DAC with tda1543 revisited
The
battle of transports updated
Luxman D103u
Mephisto
1 player / transport.
I
find the best DAC that I ever heard and it is sensationally cheap too
!!! (Lampizaed Behringer)
My new GM-70 Mono
Block SET amps
Meridian
207 nightmare
Behringer
upsampler
Philips
CD 710 player - a cheap gem.
Munich
High End Show
Report
BAT VK60 power amplifier
Marantz
CD5000
Sabre32 in
new Lampizator DAC application. Still my favourite sound.
Mephisto 2 meets
Fikus Transport 1.
Fischer
AD-ZI CD player / transport
Wolfson
DAC WM8742
CEC DAC DX 71
MK2
Wolfson
DAC WM8742 with Lampizator World
Premiere of the WM8742 combined with tubes !!!!
April10 - First results of
capacitor test.
Kenwood
DP8010 with PCM58 DAC
basic
info
about the Shigaraki Clone transport
Basic
info
and test of North Star Design transport model 192
The Transport building diary - continues to the happy end
My
own speakers P24 finished after 4 years of work in progress
The Transport
building diary - step by step from 50 Euro CD player to
giant killer Fikus Tubetransport 1,0
Shortcut: CAPACITOR CORNER
with some explanations, some testing and
some humor
The Grand Battle of
Seven Transports: Theta Data Universal against
Pioneer/Goldmund with maximum hot rod tweaks and "Fikus Tubetransport
1,0" and TEAC VRDS X25 and many more to come like Shigaraki, North
Star, and Marantz
73 with added S/PDIF
AH DAC from
DIYCLUB.BIZ - a NOS with eight DAC chips TDA1543 in
parallel.
Searching for good Preamp:
Balanced Audio Technology BAT VK-3i
SQUEEZEBOX Fetishist's corner
GreenDac
TDA1541 ULTIMATE MUSIC MACHINE
Teac
VRDS25 new info added
CDM1 - 2- 4 Laser
cleaning info added to Laserology post.
VAC DAC MkII
Pioneer
PD-S703
Pioneer DVD
(Goldmund)
TEAC T1-VRDS
transport amazes me with rocket science Very Rigid system
New info about the Theta
new info about the
Rockna ADLABS lampized and boxed.
Theta Data
Universal Transport
ROCKNA AD-Labs dac
from Romania (AD1865) revisited, this time - with much better result.
Sabre ESS
buffalo DAC
ROCKNA AD-Labs dac
from Romania (AD1865)
Nov 30 2008
SENSATIONAL sound as a result of NOS
application to SONY players with TDA1541A - first documented public
description of the process of NOS mod to Sony chipset
Nov
19th
Michal
N
system
Bang
and Olufsen Beo CD 5500 player revisited
Lampucera
inside CD player
Nov
18
Sony
CDP-557ESD - a real giant.
Nov 17
Laser failure
problems - Laserology
Nov11
Sony 333ESD lampized proper
Pioneer PD-S06 with PCM1702 DACS
Nov.03
Audio-Note
DAC4 anybody ?
Oct. 21
Sony
CDP-338ESD - the successor of the TDA1541 line
Last
encounter with Cambridge CD2 with four TDA1541 chips
A giant
killer CD player from good old Sony - CDP-710
TRIPATH Class D amps - shock and awe from
China
Sept 28
New help drawing for
reworking of Liung and Music Angel 845 amps
New possibilities
of stealing SP/DIF from the SONY chipset players
A note
on Digifetishizator (J-FET buffer for SP/DIF)
Grundig
CD 360player in overhaul mode but sans lampizator
sept 12 '08
New and best
fetishizator 2.0 design (link on the bottom of the linked page)
Sept 08
Grundig
CD9009 Fine Arts becomes non-oversampled (NOS MOD)
August
27
Tired
of the "transport sound" issue I cut down to the science and logic.
Digital Lens and meditations provide the enlightement.
August 20
The midsummer return of the
battle of giants: New 6 contenders to the
title of the best CD player in the world: NAIM, ARCAM, DENON, SATCH and
a
ZERODAC AD1852 from China.
August 18th
World's first FETISHIZATOR Ver
1,0
August 01
Bewitch amplifier 6550 from China
WORLD'S
FIRST DIGILAMPIZATOR !!!
Philips
CD104 - a fantastic player that I have fallen in love with - NOS-ed.
AMC CD9 player
(not lampized yet).
The GOOD PLAYERS LIST - without any
modifications - for people who want to just buy and listen.
Universal preamplifier with headphone output
Philips
CD753
Arcam
Diva CD73
Non-Oversampling of TDA1540 ???
New article
about the super machine Sony CDP337ESD
Naim CD3 with
NOS and lampizator - one of the bess CD players of all time
Cambridge
Azur
640-1 with lampizator - the latest attempt. - a surprise concerning
Azur 540 Mk2
Newest schematics for
amplifiers: Liang and Music Angel 845 - From Austria
Marantz
CD50 taken to it's limits
CATHODE
FOLLOWER PHOTO SESSION - QUICK GUIDE
OPAMP TWEAK
IN LAMPUCERA MAX
Maj 28 : LAMPUZZERA LAMPIZZATA E BOXATA
May
26 : Philips
CD-751 almost the new king of CD kingdom !
May
22: WOLFSON
DAC and lampucera get a dedicated lampizator circuit
NEW
MAXI-LAMPUCERA and also NEW DEDICATED LAMPIZATOR FOR LAMPUCERA
MHZS
gets a second
chance and becomes a tubed player !!!
may17 NOS
conversion of
Marantz CD50 with TDA1541A
may16
description
of conversion of TDA1547 DAC 7 chip to I output (=kosher)
Marzntz
CD67SE
Lampucerized (what
is HDAM,
anybody ?????? )
April 30: | The good,
the bad and the ugly :
the Hifi manufacturer's hall of fame |
April 27 : Capacitor games: os-con - teapo or tantalum ?
April
25: 5 Lampucera variations
April 24: Cambridge
DVD89 - with second phase lampization.
New
fresh look at the fabulous Shanling CD300 player
Apr.
19 The Best Music Angel KT88 for novice - modification step by
step.
April
10: MHZS CD88
the most
innovative CD player of the decade !
Polish
language lampizator manual
NEw
datamining
list of DAC papers (PDF)
Non
oversampling
mod of Philips CD-880
Alphabetical
list
of CD players
April
8 - new
tube
types in lampizator manual- ECC81
- e81CC -
ECC801S - 12AT7
- 6SL7GT,
12SN7GT,
April
3 : New
info about the lampucera tuning with details
April 1: Cambridge
DVD89 - a surprisingly great player that does movies too.
March 27 nakamichi
CD Player4 with AD-1864N DAC chip
some tips about
stock Chinese tube amp tweaking - what to do with a shenzen amplifier.
BYPASS corner (non-lampization CD tweaks)- new text added
TEAC VRDS-25 with 4 x AD1862 DACs and Sony KS151A mechanism
and VRDS.
My
latest speaker project - P24
NAD
C 521i
player with minimum comments
Cambridge
CD2 player - an older cousin of CD3. A quick visit.
Marantz
CD 94 MK2
in a snip-it mode and with balanced out with new clock.
Marantz
CD 94 Mk1
in a snip-it mode and with NOS.(first
Non Over Sampling from
Lmpizator)
The
shapshot of
the baby NAIM CDI (drill to the
bottom of the page)
The
latest attempt on cost no object speaker system
Jan
21:
WADIA transport preparing to marry a Lampucera chipset
Jan 16: SNIP-IT - THE NEW
SECTION - DIY mods without investments, without tubes
New comments
about the Wolfson versus Cirrus shoot-out contest (bottom
of the page)
Sony
CDP-555ESD player (TDA1541) challenges the rest of the World
Jan 07: new
values
for lampizator with 6H6P tube in the manual
(first
departure from oryginal ever).
New info in CD dac
ranking
DEC 31 2007 Vincent
- CD-S6 player with PCM 1732 DAC and LOTS OF SURPRIZES
INSIDE
Dec 25 - small
adjustments of SABA radio
guide
Dec 24 - new
schematics of Music Angel and Liang amp - part
values moved to
HTML file.
CD DAC giant shootout contest - the battle of champions
Azur/
Wolfson evaluation
Lampucera
DAC board that redefines the sound
New
schematics for Liang and Music Angel 845 amps
Shanling
CD300
Yamaha
CD480lampized
with one triode -
first non-SRPP internal Megalampizator
Second
approach to Kenwood 7090
Music
Angel KT88
updated tweaking schematics
Philips
CD960 player
Kenwood
9010X transport
SONY
CDP-337ESD - I am drooling over the old Sony
Cayin
amplifier from China - civillised
Lampizator
DIY
step by step for
beginners
Wonderful
system of Artur P
New
reference speaker project - Altec Lansing and RAAL RIBBONS
NEW
KING OF CD KINGDOM : Marantz CD94-2 superb balanced player with 4 octal
tubes
Rusinos
Maximus speaker project - preliminary pics
Grundig
CD8100 - cheapest
gateway to HIFI heaven
Marantz
CD94 MK2
Marantz
CD94MK1
new
Saba Greencone madness project
Cambridge
CD-4
New
section - CD Player
ranking
Last
info on TDA chip and list of players
Marantz
CD80 (one 1541A-S1 Q1)
China
zhaolu DAC D2.5 - a mindblowing revelation
SEPT
2007 - LATEST
REVISION Music Angel 845 and Liang 845 SE SCHEMATICS by Fikus
LATEST SCHEMATICS 845 amplifier MA-XD-SE_ LAYOUT
AKAI
CD-55
(based on DAC AD-1856 - new post includes Analog Devices list)
SABA radio
page under
construction - new radios added on sept 12
Music Angel 300B input stage completely revisited again
NAIM
CDS-1
revisited
Grundig 9000 revisited
SONY
CDP-227ESD CD (two TDA1541A in paralell)
CD40
Marantz player
Latest
and BEST revision of Grundig 9009 player
Grundig
905 player
Revox B126
Philips
DAC960 revisited
Marantz
60 revisited and with tube headphone circuit
Music Angel revisited - a definitive input
stage for the Angel and
the Liang.
July 23
July 22
Measurements
of the Lampizator
July 20
Cambridge
Audio CD3 player (4 x TDA1541A !!!)
Mr. Liang's
monster 845 single
ended triode amplifier from China - ONGAKU for the poor
July 3 2007:
Cyrus
Mission CD
player
Bang
and Olufsen 5500 CD player
Grundig
CD-8400 MKII CD player
Meridian
CD player 506.20
China
DAC D2.5
03
07
2007 TDA1541A DAC fetishists corner update
April 10 2007 :
Monster MEGA
LAMPIZATOR -
a new circuit
22 03 2007
Cyrus
Mission
DAD1 CD player
22 03 2007
P19
open baffle ultimate prototypes
16 03 2007
Endorphin
P-18
And
Krzysztof S
10. 03 2007
Endorphin
P-17
And
Krzysztof O
08.03.2007
Loewe
CD9000. Loewe my love !
3.03 2007
DAC
Philips 960
1.03 2007
Comparison
of two best CD players: Grundig and JVC
17 02 2007
Project
9 Vinyl deck
18 02 2007
Cambridge
Audio DACmagic 2 gold with lampization
1 02 2007
Music
Angel 845 SET amp from China lampized proper
28 01 2007
Speaker
crossovers construction tips
15 01 2007
Beautiful Revox Exception E-426 under scrutinity
30 12 2007
Shanling
CD-T100 and 200 lampized proper