new GAN amplifier

I mentioned that am expecting one in my Life with Ric Schultz EVS 1200 thread


I will start a new thread when I do

IMHO, Gfi is making a lot of sense here

Still awaiting my Voyager (GaN), but still loving my EVS 1200 (class D)

Gfi,

I know I am not, and never have been, anything more than a customer to Ricevs.

Aside from his correcting my error in saying the EVS has no fuses, the only times I have heard from him were to ask about when I will receive the GaN, and to prep me for his newest ’upgrade’. the PPT cards, which he says blows away the cubes that I was forced to buy or I would not get the amp

That you would continue to make that accusation, for me at least, calls anything you say into question

Reader beware of Gfi, the thread destroyer

Mike, I have RicSchultz's EVS 1200 (class D) which sounds WAY better than any of my previous Ds, including EP 100.2SE monos, Audio Alchemy DPA-1, and PS Audio M700s
I am awaiting a Voyager GaN amp to compare. PM me your email since YT suspended my account I can no longer post to your videos

+1 pirad


GFi, your designer quotes lack dates. Also, most of them have a company to protect, so there comments can mostly be taken with a small grain of salt. Still, you hang in there with your negativism

BTW, while I find all the technical comments worthy of discussion/debate  you  have hijacked this GaN thread. Take it to a new thread

Sonicjoy

In fairness, the EP amps design is ~ 5 years old, which is ancient compared to the newest IcePower modules in the EVS 1200, plus Ric employs lots of tweaks that commercial designs would not

Also, post EP amps; my Audio Alchemy DPA-1 and PS Audio M700s benefited from upgraded interconnects and speaker cables (to 100% WW, series 7s and 8s), but I still think the EVS 1200 is by far a superior amp to all of them, at least with my EP KCIIs, which has an 8" mid-range and twin 10" woofers.

Your 2.7s have 12" mid-range and twin 15" woofers, meaning your sound is likely bigger, fuller and richer in tones, though the KCIIs are excellent in their lane, my room is too big for them by themselves, but I could not get the 2 SVS subs (12") to blend even with the EP BOM, so the KCIIs are flying solo. And still I am very impressed with the overall sound.

That said, EP 2.8s should arrive any day now. I was expecting to have the Voyager well in advance so I could make apples to apples comparisons with my KCIIs, but it is still not here, and I will have someone coming for just a few days who has intimate knowledge with setting the 2.8s up, which means any thoughts I have on the Voyager vs EVS 1200 comparison will be pretty useless, at least until I get used to the 2.8s then compare the 2 amps

@sonicjoy


$600 for 2.7s. Were they stolen LOL
My understanding is the concentric 12" is not carbon, just the 2 @ 15s/side

I have been enjoying the 3.4s with upgraded XOs for over a year, supplementing them with 2 old SVS powered subs 12" one is a plus, the other an ultra, but did 2 things recently that took them to much higher level of enjoyment. The 2.8s have been stuck in CDC warehouse for almost 2 years: too long a story, but would make a great novella. The short story is the trucker bringing them was also transporting chemicals to make a LOT of fentynol


Recently I replaced an optical cable with Pangea XL coax ($150) to huge grins, BUT, then I started playing with the subs XO point. Where I had them  @ 80hz, I now have them at ~ 100hz which freed them up of going too high

hth