Thanks Mike!
I'd love to see these of the Lampizator. 
I think what someone told me is that the Vega is the Antizator. A true engineered product with science. 
Oh really?
You may be interested in hearing from someone who has BOTH. Read from bottom up:"I failed to report in my last e-mail on a new aspect of Lampizator ownership.
My DAC came with a Certificate of Manufacture which looks like, and is engraved like, a college diploma.
It tells me that my DAC is #4xx, that it was manufactured on November xxth, 2013, and that it carries a 5-year, transferrable warranty!
It is stamped with Lukasz's stamp and is signed.
It, like a diploma, really calls out to be framed and I may do just that. If nothing else, it'll keep it from being damaged or wrinkled.
AND. It includes an exhaustive , two-page, Test Report and Checklist. All options are checked-off, and signed as having been completed.
AND, there is an exhaustive list of voltages, currents, and other readings taken from a plethora of measurement sites.
All in all a tremendously professional presentation as befits a creation of the Leonardo of our audio times."
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"Jim's 18 month old L-5 has Jensen caps and sounds much, much better than either my Gen 3, level 4 DAC or my Auralic Vega. So much better that I decided that an upgrade was mandatory. Based on Lukasz's suggestion at dinner a month ago, I requested fully balanced topology and Duelund's caps. Lukasz said the Duelund's were significantly better than the Jensen 's at what they did AND, better than the V-caps at what they did. Also, that fully balanced topology would sound more dynamic.
Lukasz was being very conservative In both these regards!!
My DAC has just over 140 hours on it now and is way, way beyond what Jim's L-5 achieves.
As anybody will attest who's heard both vinyl and CD in my room, vinyl ALWAYS was way better than CD. Jim's L-5, though substantially better than my old DAC, didn't change that outcome: vinyl was still audibly superior. My new DAC is absolutely, superior to vinyl in every way I can hear. I've compared LP's and CD's made from the same recording and, now, CD always trounces LP.
It could be argued, as Jim has, that this means my phono stage is not up to the task and must be replaced. This may be so; but why did my LP's always sound better than CD 's even when Jim's L-5 was being used.
Just my two cents-worth but, anybody who decides on an upgrade is crazy not to get the Duelund's. On paper, Jim's L-5 is a two-box unit which differs from mine mostly by having Jensen's rather than Dueland's and, other than the caps, ought to sound better.
GET THE DUELUND'S or don't bother up-grading!!!!"
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"What follows is preliminary but, thus far, strongly felt.
Well.....I had high hopes yesterday but concerns, too, as I'd just spent 3+ weeks with Jim's Gen 4, Level 5, two-box unit. It is superb; and easily the best DAC I'd ever heard.
BUT! My new DAC (upgraded from gen 3 to Gen 4 Level 4 Lampizator) is simply stupefying!!!
LP's, stereo or mono, played on my 2 Technics SP-10's have always easily outstripped any digital front end. Even during the last 3 weeks, LP's still had a clear superiority over CD's.
With only an hour on the new DAC my sonic world has been turned upside down. I'm not sure, any more, of the inherent superiority of vinyl. In fact, it might just be that CD's now challenge reel-to-reel tape. That's tantamount to blasphemy for me but, hand on heart, it's what I heard.
Talk about resolution! Even Jim, who stopped by last night to retrieve his DAC, remarked repeatedly on the "inner detail" and complete harmonic structure of every note.
A major and thrilling discovery was the new DAC's capacity for dynamic expression. The range from Pianisissimo to Fortisissimo is now significantly expanded. It's better, it's more real, and it's part of the reason, I believe, that CD sound is now equal to or better than LP and, perhaps even tape. Drum thwacks are frighteningly real and one can hear a significantly expanded frequency range from the low, fundamental thud, to the sound of the mallet on the skin, to the higher overtones. Lukasz told me that the fully balanced DAC would be more dynamic. Man, was that an understatement!!!
Above all, perhaps, I now hear, and FEEL, the emotion in vocalist's voices. Songs that were pleasant and even touching are now compelling. Some that sounded flat and uninvolving are now richly contoured; due, I surmise, to the superb resolution coupled with infinitesimally graduated microdynamics. It's all there and it's FABULOUS!
As the Duelund's probably take a good long while to hit their stride, I can only guess at what lies in store.
I'd given up buying many CD's over the last year since my LP rigs were so obviously superior in presenting music. Now I'll have no reticence to start buying CD's again.
More to follow as it, and I, mature to a higher plane of musical involvement."
