LampizatOr AMBER 5 DAC

Description

LampizatOr AMBER 5 DAC – The Greatest Start

Amber 5 is by far LampizatOr’s best entry level DAC ever, with 15 years of experience optimizing the old Level 4 to become Amber 1, 2 and eventually 3 and 4. It starts shipping in April 01 2024 as a successor to Amber 4.

Following our huge efforts to create the Baltic-3 and the Horizon DAC we gained enough knowhow and confidence to redesign the Amber DAC from ground up, and offer an entirely new product. Circa around November 25th 2021 we start testing Amber-4, while technical necessities caused us to phase out Amber-3 entirely in February 2022.

A huge success of the new Engine11 DAC board – made us re-think the future of Amber programme and eventually in March 2024 we decided to offer the Engine11 also to the Amber product line. Making it the cheapest DAC to use this remarkably superior digital engine. The change of name from Amber 4 to 5 is nothing more but the refflection of the engine upgrade.

We left untouched the analog section which we feel is optimal for the job. It took a total redesign of the digital section. It retains surprisingly a lot of the Baltic good qualities – pure, natural, effortless, spacious and super dynamic presentation worthy of at least twice as expensive product. This DAC, thanks to having output buffer – can drive particularly well the transistor amps.

We are very proud of this DAC, and the fact that at an entry level price we can outperform any competitor known to us. This DAC gives joy and bliss in spades.

Some other highlights are: copper output caps, CLC power filter with tube rectifier 6X5, true balanced option, volume control option, full analog preamp of very high quality, USB circuit JLS of the highest caliber, newly designed muting to avoid pops and clicks in computer operation, and many many more. This DAC will play DSD512!

Introducing AMBER 5

The most popular line of Lampizator DACs just got better!

• Completely redesigned digital engine
• High-end analog section with improved tube output loosely based on Baltic3
• New power transformer and linear power supplies
• True copper output capacitors
• New “JLS USB card” as standard now
• New OLED display, no more LCD (taken from the Pacific project)
• Software driven signal routing, no more relays
• Total muting to keep switching noises down
• Plays every digital file known
• No drivers needed for any computer operating system
• Volume control models have one analog input for analog sources (active input with tubes and volume)

More musical than ever, free of any artifacts, very direct, liquid, and fast sound with improved transparency and detail.

In the design of the new digital engine, we managed to squeeze the last drop of musicality from PCM and DSD files. DSD is no longer limited to 256X but fully natively 512 – which almost nobody uses anyway – but making this change was well worth it.

THE MAIN HIGHLIGHTS

• The newest Amber model in the LampizatOr lineup
• Fully tubed DAC, with tube rectified PSU, tube input stage, tube output stage, linear power transformer, and copper capacitors
• Brand new, Code 53 DSD/PCM fully balanced digital engine – derived directly from Pacific 57 engine programme
• Accepting all major noval based dual triodes: Ecc81, Ecc82, ECC802, ECC99, Ecc180, 12AT7, 12AU7, all variants and NOS from Mullard, G.E.C. Philips, Ken-Rad, Tung-Sol, Shuguang, Genalex, Brimar, Electro Harmonics, JJ, Telefunken, Amperex and many more brands
• Allows Rectifier Rolling – 6C5S, 6X5
• Exists in Normal SE variants, BALANCED topologies and with or without Volume/Preamp/Remote

Lampizator PACIFIC 2 Leaflet
Lampizator PACIFIC 2 User’s Manual