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EniGmA1987
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Oct 18, 2023
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Great looking specs as always from the engineering talent at Lake.
Two things not mentioned in the description and spec sheet is just how much voltage Lake products run at. Far higher than almost every other headphone Amp, levels more typical of regular speaker amps. This gives the Amp much more driving ability and a bit of a unique sound characteristic in the headphone Amp world.
The other thing is the specific output at different ohms:
600 mW (600 Ohm)
900 mW (300 Ohm)
1750 mW (100 Ohm)
1200 mW (32 Ohm)
So this Amp works perfect for both very high impedance phones as well as low impedance ones like planar. However since it has such high voltage, it will really excel on the high impedance ones compared to other amps. While it has enough total power for 32 ohm headphones, you can see from the fact that power actually drops off from 100ohm rating when going down (usually power goes up as you get lower impedance) that the amp is actually limited in power output by the current/amperage capability on the low end because voltage goes down a bit and the current cant go any higher.
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hatman
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Oct 18, 2023
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EniGmA1987Why this wouldn't be listed in the description and specs is a mystery.
nick_t
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Jun 7, 2024
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hatmanThis is because when they post wrong specs and measurements, they be easily be sued. And there are always bias tedencies and this is why they should sent to reviewers who based on measurement rig such as ASR and other science based reviews. But of course, that will be bad marketing sometimes by just providing specs and measurement. We need subjective mumbo jumbo to convince their unit is different and unique from any otehr dac/amp but in reality, they perform more a like the same. The power output for each impedance that guy provided, are more alike similar to most amplifiers. This particular unit indeed is very powerful. Lake people and violectric make well engineered stuff, german engineering, big fan. But overprice and sounds the same. I would love to own their gears.
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