Thanks Mike! 👍

Oh, and forgot to mention I too love my D-10, purchased from reading your review, it’s so cool with fidelity and function thrown in.

Hi and thank you. My experience with the original is so limited and brief that I couldn’t really be accurate with my impressions. From what I recall, the older Lambada models were not as wide feeling, nor as warm feeling. They were more like the 007 MKI (not the MKII).
Beyond that, I could not say more on it as I don’t recall the fidelity factor enough to judge properly.

I can tell you that the odds are good that the new model is nicely improved and tweaked over the previous models. I asked this question to Stax and they told me is certainly is of a higher fidelity factor across the board, of course. But how much, I couldn’t say because I don’t have the original models to compare :[

But, despite that…I find the LK700MKII to perform very well for the price, and that musical tone is addictive.