Reviews
Customer Review for the Arion Mk II
The new Arion brings out more detail, provides more weight and separation to instruments lower in the mix and delivers the deep bass clarity of the original with an even faster attack.
Positive Feedback Review of LAT Axiom II Preamplifier at CAF
It is always such a joy to find items in the high-price world of audio that
are not so high-priced and still get you so much of what one can expect
when handing out serious coin. Case in point: the Axiom II Passive
Preamp Fully balanced/XLR version from Luminous Audio...
are not so high-priced and still get you so much of what one can expect
when handing out serious coin. Case in point: the Axiom II Passive
Preamp Fully balanced/XLR version from Luminous Audio...
Part-Time Audiophile Review of LAT Axiom III Preamplifier
What you get here though is pure, unadulterated, sonic bliss. The kind of sonic excellence that allowed me to intensely enjoy anything I cared to listen to. Yes, it checks all the audiophile boxes in terms of sonic performance buzzwords but it gave me more than that. It allowed me to feel.
LAT Axiom III in Part-Time Audiophile 2023 Buyer's Guide
From the mind of Michael Bettinger and the manufacturing brilliance of Tim Stinson, the Axiom III possessed “extreme detail along with its phenomenal low-level resolution and effortless display of dynamic contrasts.” It’s streamlined and built for speed–no phono stages, DAC, balanced inputs or fancy casework–so the Luminous Axiom III is all about “sonic bliss.” A Reviewers Choice winner.
LAT Arion Mk II in Stereophile Recommended Components 2022 Edition
The Arion Mk.II is identical to the original version of this phono preamp (reviewed by MF for AnalogPlanet.com) except that it eliminates the MM input and features higher-voltage–rated dual-toroidal transformers and an upgraded MC input stage. MF echoed the manufacturer's claims, writing that the Arion exhibited "a sense of purity and low-level detail resolution that [was] highly dynamic and musically involving."