LSA Voyager GAN Amplifier


Just got mine last week.  After 24 hours of play all I can say is that this is not your father's class D amplifier.  There is not one thing about its sound that reminds me of the class D gremlins that I do not like.  The low end filled in and now has deep impact, the midrange is the love child of a beautiful tube and clean hybrid amp - just gorgeous.  Highs are very clean and extended. Spatial cues are top notch. My system has had some damn good tube and solid state amps in it before and it has never sounded this good.  I am blown away with the quality of sound coming from class D amplification at this price point.

This 300 wpc amplifier is a real winner.....
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Here is an interesting story.  My friend wanted to have some 1uf polystyrene 100 V caps custom made.  He got the aluminum foil from Dave Fletcher at Sumiko.....and sent that to 4 different cap making companies along with Mogami wire for the leads, and his own solder for attachment.  Since most polystyrene comes from Germany from the same plant.....there was practically nothing different in each custom cap.  When we got back all the samples I was the one that tested them for sound.  They all sounded different.....yup....that's right.....they all sounded different.  Maybe different tension or whatever.....who knows.  The "everything makes a difference" game is very very subtle.

All brands of polyprop or whatever caps sound different from each other....even if they are the same length.  If you orient the cap with the outside foil to the output of lower potential it sounds best.  None of this can be measured.  Even within brands there are various versions that have different sound.  Check out all the versions of Mundorf caps, for instance.  Read the reviews of these caps.....they all sound different.  If you use silver wire instead of copper wire it sounds different......no difference in measurements.  This game is not simple....it is infinite....just like our soul is.  If all caps made from the same material sound different....then there are a lot of things coming into play here.  Check out VH Audio (V-caps) and their detailed description of how they designed their expensive caps.

Measurements can tell you some things......but most things need to be listened to to get to the truth of the purity of the sound.....to really KNOW something.

The only things that are infinite are the universe and human stupidity, according to some German guy. We can see the latter proven here daily.

All brands of polyprop or whatever caps sound different from each other....even if they are the same length.  If you orient the cap with the outside foil to the output of lower potential it sounds best.

By 'potential' here do you mean impedance? Its sensible engineering to have the outer foil connected to the lower impedance circuit, that minimizes RF ingress.

More: Interesting to me at least. XLR fixed.

 

Trouble is that fast rising distortion into 4ohms after only 20w!! of power. That will not get fixed easily. And this could be the reason why (it’s a bridged amp). Andy

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"the fact that there are four amplifiers here, not two. Strange that the company is going after audiophile market yet bridged this amp for higher power."

 

 

 

 

This is much much better falling distortion into 4ohms all the way up to 200W!!