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People, keep asking me about the sound of Melquíades and I feel strange as I really can’t not explain how it sounds. It does not make any sense as I initiated this thread with the objective to explain or at least to inform about the Melquíades’ sound...
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Many peoples since I begin to harass my site visitor with the “Melquíades” paranoia have asked me questions about the sound of those amps. Try to put aside my excitement about the FINAL result of this project I will try to convey what exactly I appre...
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[quote user="morricab"] The one thing that the Lamm ML2 does differently than nearly all tube amps is regulation of the output stage. They do this with the 2nd 6C33C that is on the chassis. Even the KR amps don't do this and I think it is...
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Like I said before, I found the silk domes best below the highest frequencies, just like your Vitavox, so it's another case of pick your poison. And I'm not sure about matching dissimilar driver types/efficiencies to mo...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]7) Location of power amps : Yes, the power amps sit within the frame, on their own sliding support between the Upper-Bass and Upper-Mid horns. For the moment I am using a pair of ML2s from 60Hz and above. (below 60Hz I use...
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[quote user="Paul S"]So what are we to make of a product like the ML2 amps (using them here only as an example, not a topic)? I have to say I more or less took a flyer on these, since I never heard them in a system I could stand befor...
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HP means high-passing, right? In Melquiades I do it by changing the coupling cap between the stages. You can do the same in ML2. To unsolder the cap from ML2 is pain in ass but you might juts clip one of the lead and solder another smaller cap next t...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]While not present to the point of ruining the experience, I would love to reduce the background hiss coming from the MF and HF horns/drivers. [/quote] ML2 should be absolutely silent. Pretty much it you drive with ML2 a 11...
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I do not know Paul; I feel that you have a lot strange fantasies about ML2…. BTW, this week, because some odd courses, I will have a pair of ML2 in my room. It would be like a déjà vu feeling. If I found myself in the mood then I might look if ML2 us...
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OK , so I looked at the April 2008 Stereophile.I noticed a while back that Art Dudley stopped listing his ML2.1s as "assocoated equipment" along with his reviews, listing instead the Shindo Montele and Cortese stereo SETs, and then just the Cort...
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[quote user="miab"]I'm about to place an order for some 12AX7 tubes. The GA 12ax7 tube you mention doesn't seem to come up in my search. Is there other info regarding this tube?[/quote]I am not sure but it is possible that General Electric never ...
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Sorry, Romy, I'm just bagging on you a little for caring/staying conected to Lamm...I hope you understand that I absolutely agree with your ideas about the "right" direction to go for the next viable step in audio *for those with the stones*. &n...
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I think I need to make some commentary in here as BS will be swallowed as usually and somebody shall take stand on it. Before is a small prelude. Sometimes back in his comments about RMAF 2010 Show Report the Federated Mike wrote in his blog:
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Well, Jessie, I think you're exercising a wishful thinking but you have, I think, a wrong subject for your thinking. Neither Lamm nor any other high-end manufacture care about result as a concept but rather a result as product. A product b...
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Go today two emails from the site readers with two links to the CES comments.
First one is from Jeffrey Jackson who looks like was recruited by Joe the Uninvolved Archeologist with the room:
http://hifiheroin.blogspot.com/2011/01/ces-...
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[quote user="Paul S"]So, does anyone know anything about "good" sockets for the ML-2s? I forget when and where I saw some sort of boutique Teflon jobbies that are pretty darned expensive. Maybe DIY Hi-Fi, in Hong Kong? Also, although Teflon is a ...
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[quote user="Paul S"] Not to "sell" Milquiades, but how (other than multi-channel and bandwidth limiting) would an SET not crap out full range? Even the "big" ones just give out at too soon, and they can't maintain balance under any sort of pre...
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There is one thing that you also need to consider. The way how in ML2 bias is built it is a bit tricky to set bias for a new tube. In ML2 a brains new tube will raise bias very aggressively and then it will return it back as the tube heat up (in ...
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Daisy chaining ML2s:
Over in the thread about CES 2011http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=15482#15482Romy posted a link to photos taken by Mike, the owner of Audio Federationhttp://www.audiofederation.com/blog/Scrolling do...
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[quote user="Paul S"]One thing I noticed right away was a certain "image density", not unlike the ML2. [/quote]
This is very interesting subject. I do not know what core the ML2.0 used but I would like to have ML2 a little bit “amorphousised”…...
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ML2 is also making me hear my modified AI M3A pre-amp, not to mention I guess I could now benefit from all shielded cables. All this stuff was fine with the Wright 2A3s. Speakers: I built a version of Dick Olsher's 3-way Diamond...
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[quote user="Paul S"]He did note that the ML2.2 uses a different OPT, and also that it uses "less feedback" than the ML2.1 … I wonder what this means, "less feedback"? Why would Lamm mess with that very effective scheme? Does he just shunt some vo...
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There are no relays in the ML2 that might produce the “violent switch-on pulse… which threatens to blow your speaker”. What you have is a dead V2 tube. When 6C33C dies then it begging to produce the erratic pings. Juts replace the tube and you should...
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[quote user="Gregm"] No-one is criticising the ML3 (amplification) product. We are discussing the concept and the applicability of such products, i.e. the ultimate limitation of an amplifier called upon to work from DC to daylight and, accordingly, d...
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Well, congratulations, Jessie, and welcome back to the Surreal World!For a while there your posts were reading like a dime novel!I hope you will try the doubled ML2s to see if you also hear the unusual effect the ML2 has on bass.What I get is th...
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Romy, for one thing, you are still talking "best possible sound" in a very literal way while most other people are merely working out one or another acknowledged compromise, or they are hoping to make their system do an even more spectacular renditio...
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Rony,
After reading my post about the undersized core (for the given current) of Lundahl transformers you might be an impression that Lundahl are some kind of second choice. The undersized amorphous Lundahls forum is second chose for an ultimate ful...
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[quote user="Tommy"]I believe that you are right on the LAMM issues look at the sewers! The market is flooded with them and everyone wants to sell them including dealers and private folks. I have never seen so much Lamm crapolla for sale as in last f...
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[quote user="Wojtek"]" The only concern being that ML2 is a feedback amp and Mel not. [/quote] And it is exactly why Lamm is able to drive more or less successfully those sub 90dB loads but Melquiades is not. The SETs with no-feedback are VERY sensit...
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In subjective terms what I hear with feedback is a higher level of "control" and a certain type of "density" of the overall sound that I have not heard with any zero feeback designs. I first noticed this with the RM9, w...
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