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December 20, 2012Dear All
LampizatOr AC filter which had been announced in latest newsletter in now available to orders. His name is THE SILK ! Sounds familiar ? oh , yes ; ] Please read bellow about the story of the unit, the one which made Lukasz famous 15 years ago on Audio Asylum !
“The concept of filtering used in SILK filter was conceived by me in the 90’s when I worked for a giant Pittway group doing many Fire Alarm EMC approvals following German VdS norms. I spent hundreds of hours in various EMC labs assisting the officials in their test. They used low energy, high energy and static discharge and Radio Frequency and Magnetic field tests – tens and tens of tests. The fire alarm panels are one of the best tested devices in the world, and they have to withstand conditions, which would normally “kill the horse”. Being an engineer in the field of high voltage physics – I learn a lot from these tests and I applied the know how to this filter.
My general finding after applying the filter concept to Audio – was that we don’t need to influence the sine wave per se, we don’t need to make anything about the AC as long as the radio frequency content is removed. We are not talking about the AC sine distortion, being out of shape etc. The RFI is by a magnitude of million faster than AC and it is invisible on any oscilloscope however fast.
The key to success is NOT OVERFILTERING – just gently removing the RFI and keeping all AC wave intact.
The RFI can penetrate the audio circuits and influence the chips, clocks, voltage regulators, transistors, opamps, etc. The RFI can blend into the feedback loop and also it can be amplified together with the signal.
The listening test show that the filter improves all kinds of stereo systems from 1000 Euro to 100 000 Euro, and nobody ever found any down-sides. We do not choke the energy from the music the way the power regenerators and conditionets do. We don’t use transformers either. We do not want lifeless, pale, un-involving music.
SILK filter lets the music be with full energy and dynamics but sounding more analog like, more clear, with better definition and tonal accuracy. The end result is so nice – that noone ever returned the SILK on loan. And as far as I know – nobody who bought it – ever sold it. I made around 40 units back in the nineties under ESA brand and now I resurrected the design under my LampizatOr brand.
The filter is in a full size box, so it can be nicely stacked with other gear. It is not a power strip wallowing in dust behind the rack. It is proudly participating with full membership rights as a vital rack element. Apart from filtering – the SILK nicely arranges our AC cables behind the rack.
The short definition of this filter is: NO-NONSENS design, timeless device, can’t live without it.”
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. ) to give you some examples
RFI attenuation from 100 kHz upward
Warranty is 5 years !
One week of test period applies (with full refund less shipping cost)
Weight 5 kg net, 8 kg packed gross.
