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Luxman L-509Z

Thanks and praises to Stereophile, Ken Micallef, and John Atkinson for a thorough evaluation of Luxman’s latest, the L-509Z integrated amplifier.

As other Luxman L-509Z owners have discovered, Ken describes an amplifier “beyond quiet” and capable of presenting recorded music with images that are “large, dense, and spatially profound, presented within a soundstage of considerable scale.” This same L-509Z owners’ group would agree that “this is an amp of brilliant purity and fluid communication.” Ken’s comment that “the Luxman inhabited my room as if it had won an election and was

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