new GAN amplifier

Thorsten Loesch
All Class D amplifiers are essentially delta-sigma DAC’s.

This statement is false.

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

Hey @tweek1 Glad to hear you are going to be an early adopter. I’m thinking of trying one of these as well. I do wish they would have released a mono block version but I’m sure they will if the stereo version sells well. I don’t see that they are bridgeable to mono. Do you know? Anyway I am currently running a pair of EP 100.2se’s as mono blocks driving EP 2.7’s. I think they sound great together. They were designed to work together so that is not surprising. Are you still running Emerald physics speakers? I forget which model you have/had was it the KC11?

I don’t get comparing a $2500. amp to 15,000 - $30,000. amps. Of course they will not likely be quite as good. Wally is about value products not chasing the uber high end. Just look at the case’s of the amps. These are designed to be affordable and if they are decent performers I’m sure they will out sell the high dollar ones. The designer of the Living Sound Audio (LSA) amps is the same one who designed the Emerald Physics amps and helped design the EP range of open baffle speakers. In fact he is currently helping me get the best out of my EP2.7’s that I bought from him. I have talked to him a few times lately. I plan on asking him some more about these amps.

tweek1 I look forward to your thoughts after you get it. Do you have an ETA?

+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