What the heck is in THAT thing? That was my first reaction to the huge road case I signed for from my delivery guy. My second reaction was “Dayum, I don’t remember there being an amplifier headed my way. This sucker is heavy!” Ohhhh, I thought, it’s the LampizatOr Vinyl Phono MC1. I flashed back to my days of helping load the van with all our band gear, and I channeled my inner roadie as I hauled the case back to the staging area, my garage studio, for unpacking. Once in the living room, I had to clear a spot on a rack shelf to house the impressively large (20” x 17” x 4”) and heavy (a little over 37 lbs) box that is the LampizatOr Vinyl Phono MC1. When I turned it on, there was the money shot staring me in the face, a round, orange Nixie tube display on the front panel that glowed with numbers displaying which loading option is chosen for the phono cartridge. The setting is changed by a large black knob to the right of the Nixie tube display. I wanted to grab a phatt stack of Benjamins like Skrap in that episode of Easy and […]
