Personal amp evolution

Congrats Fplanner!!!

Gryphon Colosseum

Denon Integrated...CJ MV60 (el34)...Gryphon Antileon...Gryphon Colosseum

End of Journey indeed Sunnyboy1956!!!

Saint519,

Just curious...how did the Bryston 14BSST2 compare with the Levinson 33H monos (which I have auditioned briefly once)? And of course to your current Lamms? Thanks for any insight.

Hi Thesaint519,

Thanks and understand. My own impressions of the 33H was that I could see from the first hearing why they are such venerable amps. Really effortless control and full-sound with a very nice balance.

The only part where I felt 'clearly audio design has advanced in the last 10-20 years' was in the treble where I felt compared with the latest and greatest (I suspect like your Lamms)...there seemed like a whisper of treble grain.

I am thinking of Gryphon, D'Agostino, even Boulder 2060...where I feel like those comparably powerful SS amps are even more refined, filigreed (without being dark, smoothed out) in the treble.

I have never heard Lamms...with my Wilson X1s...despite loving my Gryphon, many have told me about the wonderful sound one gets from their ML2 series with these speakers. I nearly went for a second hand pair of ML2.2s once, but without hearing (and knowing I would keep the X1s 'forever'...I was not confident to go for 18 watt monos). I felt the Gryphon at 160 watts pure Class A...I had more flexibility for today and tomorrow.

What about the Lamms makes them better to you than either the Bryston or Levinson? Most curious! Thanks.

Thanks Thesaint519,

Yes, that makes sense...Lamm and Wilson go waay back, as they say! Congrats...must be a magic combination.