Anybody else waiting for GaN and Purify to have a baby?

pinwa
I generally run my DAC straight into the amplifier. I do have the Schiit Freya, Elkit TU-8500DX, that I have tried with the GaN 400 etc. but generally I find I like the sound straight from the DAC better. The Elekit TU-8500DX does give the GaN 400 wonderfully liquid vocals but I seem to lose that holographic soundstage when I use a preamp.

I also have that Elekit pre that was given to me because the owner of it that didn’t realize it was a fairly complex kit, and way above his pay grade to make up, so he gave it to me for fixing his Pass Labs power amp.
I made it up with even better coupling caps and a better tube compliment, I had to beef up the heater current circuit though, for the beefier tubes I used, and yes for a tube pre it is very very good, and very silent, but as you found also, direct was better.
Maybe on bad recordings the Elekit would be more forgiving, but that’s not what I want, "to lower the best, so the worst is a little more acceptable but still bad".

Cheers George

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arafiq +1

"He knows not of what he speaks" and that's most of the time!

Cheers George

jjss49

Here’s something interesting, your MiniGaN 5 has the "EAS eGaNAMP2016 Gallium Nitride Class-D Amplifier Module" in it. https://ibb.co/2n5wTKK

And now they’re bringing the newer "EAS eGaNAMP 2.1 Reference GaN modules" out https://ibb.co/P6WmMZS

And there’s the original one I showed GaN by GaN with power-supply dac, pre etc etc.
https://ibb.co/9gmXdcS

Things are really heating up for a congested GaN amplifier choice, great thing is most are going to be well below $1k

Cheers George

Sorry not Audio Curtain but "Audio Canvas III"

Cheers George

jjss49



Very good review of the Class-D Audio USA amps.

If know how to mount these into a box that's basically it, these "should" for $940 be much better as they are GaN made by Gan!!!
And they have in them a dac, preamp, volume, and dsp with "Audio Curtain" laptop adjustable audio parameters)


https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/GaN-Systems/GS-EVB-AUD-BUNDLE1-GS?qs=%2Fha2pyFaduh5O8IrjWWQf9kM... they just sold out 36 weeks lead time

https://www.richardsonrfpd.com/Products/Product/GS-EVB-AUD-BUND they still have 5

https://www.mouser.com/pdfDocs/GS-EVB-AUD-xxx1-GS_Technical-Manual_Rev-200526.pdf

Cheers George

have ears that to some degree have been conditioned to tube-borne 2nd order harmonic distortion, which gives a special sense of warmth, fleshiness and body to the music... super clean solid state, even the really top stuff that is not hampered by odd order harmonic and im distortion (heard as hardness, harshness and stridency)

Been down that path with massive Amprex 805 SET monoblocks, and yes it was very novel for a couple of years, but music seem to loose itself of sense, immediacy, slam, and startle factor.
To me nothing beats out Linear SS Pure Class-A to at least >50w then you have your "warmth" and "fleshiness" but also with hyper detail and sense, immediacy, slam, and startle factor.
The rest can be A/B out to 200w.
Like a Gryphon Antillion switched to 50w-A or even better 100w-A Class-A mode, (10w-A was a little bit artificial but good for non serious listening dinner music), mind you this is on Wilson Alexia’s

Cheers George