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The Lamm room was
excellent sounding as usual. The purpose of this system, as t is
with most of their show systems, is to show that popular speakers
can sound good when properly setup and driven with Lamm equipment.
Sounding good in this case means a very balanced mix of
Sophistication, Emotionality, Impressiveness, Naturalness,
Enjoyability, and Realism. There is only very little Sweetness,
and Magic is not usually obtainable, in our opinion, with the
speakers they exhibit at shows with.
This year, this room paired the Lamm ML1.1
push-pull 90 watt amplifiers with the Wilson Sophia 2
loudspeakers. Vladimir Lamm, looking 10 years younger than the
last time we saw him, was spinning LPs like mad on the new
Metronome turntable. Playing almost exclusively classical music,
this system got a workout and sounded amazingly able to handle
whatever was thrown at it (including some Stevie Ray Vaughn). In a
smaller room, this system would likely be quite Impressive, the
desire for which is one of the primary reason people buy these
speakers. We got to
hear the Lamm M1.2 hybrid 100 watt amplifiers on the Sophia 2
loudspeakers in this room as well. Our preference, in this room
and this system, was for the ML1.1, it having a more open sound
and organic dynamics in the midrange, and only sacrificing a
little solid-state 'slam' in the lowest registers.
More Lamm*, Metronome,
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