[ New Silk is now on the market !!! : ]

Plenty of new goodies coming out of the LampizatOr House last days. Silk, which we announced at early launch stage matured now and became really tough contender. With the price tag of 700 GBP is a giant killer and is easily competing with anything on the up  to 3.000 GBP market. It was great from start , but being a bit of Ugly Duck it didn’t really flood the boats of those who were looking for fancy things.Those who appreciated quality with no questions asked recognized its massive potential immediately. Anyway after the face – lifting given the price is still affordable for anyone , when unit appears now in full glory sharing famous LampizatOr DAC case. Further improvement includes 4 way phase toggle switch option which giving additional opportunity to push its quality even further, by simple phase optimizing in your audio system w/o spending more money for – this is  our favorite way  ;] Please find out more bellow regarding technical aspects of the SILK  :

The Specs:

Lampizator DAC box size – 43 wide, 34 deep, 13 high [cm]

Front panel black or silver, the eye ring can be blue, red, orange, green or white

Standard IEC Shurter inlet (no fuse – all hard wired)

Four identical outlets with SCHUKO or French/Polish style receptacles

Only 230 V at the moment (meaning – no 110/115V but OK for 220 and 240 V)

one CLC filter individual per each outlet (not only filtering the incoming AC but also separating your gear  from one another. Many gears like transports or computers do inject back the noise to the AC)

15 A per each outlet but 25 A combined – sum of four.

 * ( typical transport consumes 0,05 A and DAC with tubes consumes 0,1 A and    GM 70 mono block amp consumes 0,9 A. )

 RFI attenuation from 100 kHz upward

 PRICES:

KIT VERSION HAD BEEN DISCONTINUED NOW , sorry !

750 GBP ( VAT inclusive) – as assembled product.

900 GBP ( VAT inclusive) – assembled and with 4 way phase flipper

Warranty is 5 years

One week of test period applies (with full refund less shipping cost)

 Weight 5 kg net, 8 kg packed gross.

All prices in £ are based on today’s 1,09 currency exchange to €.

OPTIONS: ( for phase slip version )

The front panel switch (LampizatOr ring button) can have three functions – your choice:

1. 1.Switch off all system at once
2. 2.Add a large super-capacitor that increases the capacitance used by a factor of 10 to give special filtering that you may engage or disengage
3. 3.Flip the absolute phase of all AC power at once

We can also add four independent toggle switches that change the phase of each outlet individually. THIS IS A MAGIC FUNCTION. We learned that if you flip the AC phase to each member of your stereo rack  versus the others – the sound can improve in one position. So after adjusting all four devices – the magnitude of improvement is quite shocking. The center image becomes much more solid and the 3-D stereo effect is very much improved. Even adjusting the DAC to transport can be spectacular. So on top of the filtering effect you get the ability to flip the phase WHILE YOU ARE LISTENING and without interruption of even CD transport during playback. This enables you to make a decision about the phase while your friend throws the toggle. Otherwise it is impossible to make a decision when the change takes 1 minute to reverse the AC cable and reboot the transport, DAC or amp.  This phase flipping procedure adds 50 % of perceived “price” to your system.

As you can see, the SILK filter is “just” a CLC PI type filter with low-pass function. The caps are super-fast hi-voltage ceramics 2 nF / 275 VAC and the ferrite ring cores are of very high core density.

I use thick wires – 2,5 mm pure solid core copper (Polish copper, not contaminated like the Far Far Away made copper from recycled scrap. )

The AC outlets are SHUKO type as a standard assembled, but  ( UK sockets are available with no charge added  – just need to be specified on order – same applies to US ones )

The PHASE FLIPPING VARIANT

For those who want to squeeze maximum quality out of their system, (for which they already paid a lot) this phase switching is a must. Of course the phase alignment of all rack components can be done by the cables but our way is safer, faster and more precise.

 It is an unexplained phenomenon but two components of the stereo system (cd player, amplifier) do sound differently when one component is working from AC outlet with a given phase and the other with an opposite phase. As we know – in AC outlet one wire is called hot and the other is cold. For two components we have 4 possible combinations:

HH, HC, CH and CC.

If we have transport, DAC and amp – there is 8 combinations:

HHH, HHC, HCH, HCC, CHH, CHC, CCH, CCC

and for 4 components – we have 16 combinations.

 Only one of the given set of phase alignments produces the best sound. Namely, the characteristics becomes:

1. -more focused
2. -more tight
3. -center image is more central and better defined
4. -stereo “wings” of the image become more naturally spread
5. -voices sound more natural and more “right there”
6. -everything sounds “more right”
7. -bass is deeper, stronger and more pulsating.

In the middle position the switch disconnects the outlet independently of the other three. It is usually better and easier than reaching to the back of the amplifier to switch it off.