They have updated the Lampizator Poland site a bit, seems a complete new design for Amber. Now I’m really curious, hope there will be some impressions somewhere soon.
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I bet this amber 4 design was rushed due to chip shortages since I bet they can’t get their hands on the chips for the amber 3 anymore, but I still bet it’s going to be a worthwhile upgrade over the 3 given how the baltic sounded and how favorable people are talking about the horizon
Edit: oh it says that, I should make sure to read the entire thing lol
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It’s also interesting that they reference the old Level 4 as the direct predecessor to the Amber 3. I paid $1600 for it when I got it on US AudioMart and paid it forward to @ericg for the same price when I got rid of it. It was an absolute bargain.
Would love to hear impressions on the Amber 4. Curious to know @M0N if that’s one you’d want to try?
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Sure I’d want to try it, but I don’t know if that want is enough to buy it myself, the only one I can see myself actually trying to get my hands on is the horizon, but that’s not going to happen until prices come down. Considering lampi depreciate fairly quickly I’ll just wait for them to start hitting the used market at about half price
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For the enjoyment it is giving me every time I listen to it, yes, it was a bargain and I thank you for it. 
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Horrizon vs kissandra LE vs d1-twelve when? /s
We can discuss that in the dac comparison thread lol, it’s not off the table, but I already know it will be very hard for me to get ahold of any of the higher kassandra
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I know this isn’t the affordable cable thread but this applies to you guys so I thought I’d ask here. So, the used Amber 3 I bought is officially in the postal system, and unless the guy shipped 26 lbs of rocks, this is the real thing…
So what power cables are you guys using on your Amber?
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What digital input are you going to use?
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rPi 3 with USB cable. Let me guess: I need a better USB cable first?
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For interconnects, I’d scour through Audiogon/USAudiomart for good deals at the price you want to spend, I never ran mind via USB, but yes if your worrying about cables, digital cables do matter.
I’d also consider getting the source off USB altogether at some point, and if your doing that then your cable requirements change, but again it’s not critical.
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Listen to it first. So much is going to be based off of the digital source that there won’t be one answer. I will say from my experience the Amber 3 sounded better being fed through the BNC but I wasn’t using anything fancy as far as a USB cable was concerned.
When I got a better USB cable, it did improve things but I still preferred the BNC out from my Pi2AES. So much will depend on your specific gear. Regardless of which way you go, it’s a great entry point to the high end of the DAC world.
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From my experience with a lot of the lampi, generally they do get more technically proficient when being fed with a spdif source, but they lose some of the fun factor they have, using a nice usb source and cable can keep that fun and also upgrade technicalities almost as much. Honestly I could go either way, it’s mainly going to come down to preference and what you have on hand
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Well I do have a digital hat for my pi that can do coax and fiber optic. So I can do a comparison I suppose between types. Will look into that.
But are you guys implying the digital cable should be worried about before power cable? Should I just go generic for now?
I personally would, since I think the difference will be bigger in this case. Power is more hit or miss depending on the setup, better digital cables are a more reliable investment imo
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Power matters most in amplifiers IMO. I think you’d still want a decent power cable but I wouldn’t worry about it right from the get go and certainly nothing crazy from a price standpoint. Even just a Morrow Audio cable with their perpetual sales is probably a good match.
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Speaking of which 
I am using the included cable for my amp, but that’s for another thread… Thanks for the help, guys!
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It’s an interesting phenomenon, I would say that the network/USB on the Pacific is at least on par with the AES input from the NS01, but I suspect it very heavily on what is generating the USB.
Mine has the same Amanero board for USB as in the Amber, though obviously the power source is going to be better. Plus you get the advantage of being able to use higher resolution DSD all 6 or 7 of them that I own.
I should clarify, the usb is more behind on things like the amber for atlantic, it was basically equally viable to go either way on the pacific
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That was my experience on the Amber, but I was running the USB directly from my PC at the time (for gaming), so wasn’t really a fair comparison.
The Pacific also uses different clocks on the USB interface I think, there are a couple of somethings big and clock looking soldered to the USB interface in mine.
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