Srajan, your latest review lists your autoformer volume controller at 3'000 UK, the transformer version at 60'500 EU. Most of us know not to expect audible benefits of twenty times better but given this huge spread, at least three or four times better would be nice. From your descriptions I can't figure out whether anything of the kind took place. You previously stated somewhere that your mind can't spit out percentages which I appreciate. I don't think mine could either. But by whatever metric you are comfortable, could you give us some indication of the audible improvement this Lumen made over your icOn? If I read it correctly, your icOn has finer volume steps and a better display? Thank you, Michael
Correct on the icOn's smaller step sizes and bigger display with far superior off-axis visibility. As to any delta multiplier, four times louder we can measure though beyond what we enjoy, that much louder doesn't get better, only ever more annoying even painful. When a finely tuned system we're very happy with and know how little within the limits of our room might still be possible suddenly shows a rather bigger jump, it's hard to quantify in a metric which communicates to strangers that weren't present. There obviously was no correlation to the price difference. As you wrote, none of us expects there to be. Just so, for my bigger system I called the gap transformative in the review and stand by it. I don't know by what other means I could duplicate this particular makeover. In my book that made the Lumen delta unexpectedly significant. Once this kind of money enters the equation, regular math simply fails and I don't know how to better answer your question. Srajan
