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Lampizator Tutorial 2.0 DIY instruction manual Lukasz Fikus rev 2,0 august 2008 DISCLAIMER I do not write in a smallprint, this is a big print disclaimer: If you try to mess with your CD player you will probably damage it. If you apply high voltage to the mother PCB - you will fry it dead. If you touch 200 V DC - it can hurt, or in some 1% of cases it can be lethal. If you do not like the sound - please blame yourself for being so naive. If you do not understand this manual - it means this task is not for you, it is for advanced electricians. Please ask someone who understands it completely - for help. I reserve the right not to help via email, although I will try. Pic 1 - bird-nest lampizator in full glory (and working) Photo and job – Arturo Pawlowski The Purpose The purpose of lampization is simply to squeeze better sound from existing CD, and not by a mere tuning, but by a radical change, taking the sound quality level to the best achevable. We will reach a quality so high, that we will never need or want to buy a better CD player. The quality coming out of a DAC converter chip is very good, but it is being damaged by badly designed analog output stage. We eliminate this stage altogether and replace it with one simple triode. The improvement is not because this is a tube, tubes are not magical sound improvers but simply because we simplify the circuit from hundreds of elements to a dozen or so. SIMPLICITY and POWER are the key words. Tube output is the simplest possible, and on top of that - very powerful. In hi fi terms - tube is able to drive the amplifier better. The resulting improvement is not subtle, it is easy to hear: bass becomes deeper and better, mids are magical, pure and rich, and trebles become open, airy, detailed and strong. The soundstage becomes twice as wide and twice as deep, and the pleasure of listening increases significantly. Other reading: http://www.lampizator.eu/LAMPIZATOR/whytubes/whytubes.html http://www.lampizator.eu/LAMPIZATOR/T