Enough is Enough

@ricred1 I got your PM but audiogon won't let me reply unless I give them a credit card.  with all the hacks going on, I don't put my credit card on servers just to sit there and be hacked, so I can't reply.  

I found the Lampi bigger and fuller and extremely detailed.  the soundstage is indeed excellent on the DAVE but loved the sound of the GG3.  I can't compare to the Atlantic since I went right for the DHT.  However, Lampi's flagship, the Horizon is a Pentode based output.  I recently spent a weekend listening to it with Lukas and a few others using the Taiko XDMI and it was spectacular, but way above the price range you're shopping in.

Best of luck,

Jerry

Dealers will always route you to something they sell. It isn’t even that dishonest, IMHO, call it a grey area. So basicly, you have to pretty much ignore whatever a dealer says. I know some people have dealers they trust. Still those dealers cannot be perfectly objective.

Owners can’t be fully trusted either. they are going to have confirmation bias toward whatever they spent much money on. and they often just repeat what the dealer told them.

Reviewers never give a bad review. they are playing the game.

Best bet is to: 1. understand the technology behind it to figure out what is likely to sound better. 2. listen with your own ears. A physics degee helps with item 1.

OP:  if you're in socal, stop by and listen to my Lampi.  I haven't gotten around to selling DAVE yet so we could do an A/B.

Jerry

@hgeifman So paypal probalby has good cybersecurity...but we thought all the airlines did too.  and we thought United Healthcare did too.  Now most of our SSNs and healthcare history is on the dark web.  

and did Audiogon really erase it or did they just delete it and it is sitting there waiting for a skilled hacker to restore it?

I'll pass.

Jerry