Dac High-End Cu Tuburi Lampizator Genya, Balanced

Dac High-End Cu Tuburi Lampizator Genya, Balanced

In the year 1995 by a lucky chance I visited Lviv in Ukraine where by an impossible coincident I met an Ukrainian engineer Evgennyi Kreminski. He was an older gentleman who spend his whole life professionally designing tube circuits of varius applications. He had just recently quit his state job and moved to a private company to form a startup in the field of tube amplifiers. His speciality were push pull designs with 6C33C triodes. This company produced circa 40 pairs of amps and preamps and the growth was interrupted by Evgennyi sudden death from cancer. I withessed all stages of development and design of all amps and circuits and I learned everything from Evgennyi. He was an ultra petient master, teacher, guru and friend. When he died I then decided to start my own Lampizator business. In the course of 16 years after, I took my tube circuits to a different place but with this GENYA DAC I want to make a small memory „monument” for Evgennyi and to freeze in time his last tube stage. He simply loved this circuit. So here it is. In Russian language the abbreviation of Evgennyi is Genya (pronounced ZHENYA)

Horizon Lite variant  (available from May 2025)

Key characteristics:

Horizon-1 engine – recycled and refurbished after Horizon 360 upgrade program.

Balanced + SE in every DAC

Concealed tubes.

New simple chassis unique to this model

No volume control

512x  DSD compatibility

No display, no remote

Easily available tubes 6N6P or as a premium alternative „plus” – 5687 with ECC182 compatibility

Copper capacitors + silver wiring

Unique digital engine which 2 years ago was considered the best in the history of Lampizator

USB JL converter

15th anniversary design

Finish: Only charcoal black

Options: none

Enter: THE GENYA DAC

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Within our Lampizator team we had set a new challenge: to create an entirely new DAC not based on any model from the past but with no frills, no bells or whistles , no volume control, no remote control, no preamp – just a bare bone DAC with the best possible sound and at the lowest possible cost of everything thats not sound.

We have Horizon 99 digital engines available after the Horizon1 DAC is upgraded to H360 – we can recycle the famous, babulously complex and fabulously good sounding engine. 

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The target MSRP list price is also circa 1/3rd of the Horizon price.  

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The design criteria were among others:

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1. To maintain the chassis size no larger than that of Pacific or Horizon

2. To offer single ended and balanced topology at the same time, without the need of choosing one

3. To offer NO volume control, no display and no remote contro – no  need of choosing and also simpler circuit = better sound

4. To maintain as much as possible of the Horizon sound quality. 

5. To use easily available tubes, which is important in these VERY troubled times. This is important for us, manufacturers – today, and for you – users – tomorrow.

6. To maintain the Lampizator house character.

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The resulting DAC is a masterpiece of good sound and yes the look is very spartan and industrial and boring. There are no controlls of any kind, everithing is automatic, it will read automatically in NATIVE FORM every existing file type up to DSD512x

This DAC absolutely MUST work with a preamp or with an integrated amp with a remote control. It can not be used straight to power amps with so called „digital volume control” for example in the ROON server. The DAc needs ANALOG volume control. 

Key highlights:

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• Proprietary, firmware driven conversion process with 760kHz PCM and DSD512

• No silicon anywhere in signal path past the conversion stage

• Silver wiring inside

• Copper foil, true metal sheet capacitors in the signal path

• 6N6P conversion tubes with low impedance SRPP scheme

• All units are truly balanced and SE at the same time

• Zero feedback, neither local nor global

• Zero opamps

• Tube rectified power supply (6X5 USA)

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Preliminary parameters:

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• Weight: 17 kg / 40 lbs net, 25 kg / 60 lbs gross

• Dimensions: 440 mm W x 550 mm D x 170 mm H

• Digital inputs: 1 x USB,  1 x S/PDIF RCA, 1 x AES/EBU, 1 x TOSLINK

• Output impedance: 400 Ohms per phase

• 1 x analog output pair RCA and 1 x XLR balanced output

• Output level: 0DB full level @3V peak sinus 1 kHz per phase, 6V p-p for balanced

• Mains 110-115 – 220 – 230 – 240 V AC  /       consumption 60 VA  (0,25A)

• THD @ 2V output: 0,05% SE, 0,01 % Bal

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Colors:

• Matt Black Hole​

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Packing in custom hand made flight case

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Tube compliment:

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• 1 x 6X5 rectifier or equivalent, 6C5S

• 4 x 6N6P dual triode as input buffer or 6N30P or ECC88 or E88CC or PCC88 or 6DJ9 or 6922 or adapter fitted  ECC99, ECC40,  6900, 12BH7, 5687, 12AU7 Ecc182, 7119

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All circuit consists of 4 identical mono circuits and each of phases has one tube stage working simultaneously as  input buffer, amplifier and output buffer.