LAMM LP1 Signature

LAMM LP1 Signature

Phono Preamplifier

LAMM LP1 Signature
LAMM LP1 Signature
LAMM LP1 Signature
LAMM LP1 Signature
LAMM LP1 Signature
LAMM LP1 Signature
44.990,00 Price include 21% VAT Price exclude VAT € 37.181,82
AVAILABILITY1 MONTH
A greater understanding of the music is immediately possible
The dual monaural phono preamplifier model LP1 Signature is the ultimate statement of perfection in High End audio. Just like the ML3 Signature and LL1.1 Signature, the LP1 Signature is one of the best creations of its designer’s professional career.

Design elements
The LP1 Signature has been designed to complement the ML3 amplifier and the LL1 preamplifier.  It completes the Signature Series triad and, in combination with the other two Signature components, represents a “match made in heaven”.  However, the LP1 Signature will perform its magic in any system provided it is of sufficient quality. The experience of listening to the LP1 is a unique one.  It is, at once, intimate and expansive—as if being transported to a space that belongs to just the listener and the music as they merge with one another. With no electrical artifice to impede communication, a greater understanding of the music is immediately possible. Thus enabled, the listener can enjoy each and every musical element locked in the LP’s grooves with newfound depth, profundity and insight. The LP1 Signature features a topology that brings out the most natural sound performance in the audio path.  The main distinction of the LP1 Signature from any other comparable type of preamplifiers is its almost inaudible sonic signature.  When connected to the appropriate type of electronics, and especially LAMM amplifiers and preamplifiers, it assures the extraordinary transparency of perceived sound and recreation of a three dimensional soundstage in the home, recording studio, etc. without boundaries and limitations.  

Components
The LP1 Signature is a vacuum tube preamplifier that employs a high current pure class A operation from input to output.  No loop feedback is employed.
Other features include:
- Audibly neutral power supplies (one for each channel) featuring full-wave vacuum rectifiers, choke contained filters, vacuum tube high-voltage regulators, and solid-state low-voltage analogue non-switching regulators used as the heater supplies
- Three separate inputs for MM and MC (two inputs) cartridges
- All amplification stages utilize high transconductance super low noise high-current vacuum triodes
- Very accurate RIAA EQ network

Each preamplifier is carefully handcrafted of the finest materials and hand selected top quality parts like military-grade DALE metal-film resistors, RCD wire-wound resistors, BOURNS multi-turn potentiometers; ELECTROCUBE, CORNELL DUBILIER and ROEDERSTEIN film capacitors; high frequency switching grade CORNELL DUBILIER electrolytic capacitors; HAMMOND chokes; gold-plated NEUTRIC connectors; and military-grade low-noise long-life vacuum tubes. A custom-designed massive damping panel installed in the preamplifier unit significantly reduces all types of mechanical vibrations which, in turn, leads to a more extended, coherent and natural bass reproduction. The LP1 Signature features a custom-designed super-low noise power transformer.

Specifications

VOLTAGE GAIN at F = 1 KHz:
- typically 70 dB (MC1); typically 60 db (MC2); typically 40 dB (MM)

INPUT IMPEDANCE at F = 1 KHz:
- typically 31.5 Ohms (MC1);
- typically 430 Ohms (MC2);
- typically 47 KOhms shunted by 200 pF (MM), standard factory adjustment

MM IMPEDANCE setting (internally adjusted):
- 100 Ohms, 10 KOhms, 47 KOhms, 75 KOhms, 100 KOhms

MM CAPACITANCE setting (internally adjusted):  
- 100 pF, 150 pF, 200 pF, 300 pF, 400 pF

CORRECTED OUTPUT IMPEDANCE:
- typically 1.5 KOhms

PHONO OVERLOAD F = 1 KHz:
- typically 8.0 mV RMS (MC1);
- typically 40.0 mV RMS (MC2);
- typically 400.0 mV RMS (MM)

SIGNAL-TO-NOISE ratio: below 1 Volt RMS output, A weighted:
- MC1 input to output (shorted input) better than 78dB;
- MC2 input to output (shorted input) better than 79.5dB;
- MM input to output (shorted input) better than 81.5dB

ABSOLUTE PHASE:
- non-inverting

POWER CONSUMPTION:
- 170 Watts

BURN-IN TIME AT FACTORY:
- minimum 72 hours

RECOMMENDED BURN-IN TIME IN END-USER'S SYSTEM:
- minimum 160 hours

WARM-UP TIME:
- minimum 30 minutes

WEIGHT, UNIT ONLY:
- preamplifier - 36.8 Lbs (16.7Kg)
- power supply - 20.7 Lbs (9.4 Kg), each

SHIPPING WEIGHT:
- preamplifier - 54.8 Lbs (24.9Kg)
- power supply - 38.7 Lbs (17.6 Kg), each

TUBE COMPLEMENT:
Preamplifier
- V101 – 6C3P (left channel, first amplification stage),
- V102 – 6C3P (right channel, first amplification stage),
- V103 – 6C45P-E (left channel, second amplification stage),
- V104 – 6C45P-E (right channel, second amplification stage)

Power supply
- V101, V102 – 12AX3/12BE3 rectifier tubes,
- V103 – 6C19P, voltage regulator tube,
- V104 – 5651A, voltage reference tube,
- V105 - 12AX7/ECC83, voltage regulator tube