viber6
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| Stock Voyager GaN amp (350/600) Contrasted with my EVS1200 (600/1200) Ricevs,The reviewer, Anthony Cordesman is an old, seasoned listener who I have read for 40 years. He assumes the reader knows the extensive comments he has made over the years. Still, you are right that taken as an isolated review, it is not as ... | |
| Stock Voyager GaN amp (350/600) Contrasted with my EVS1200 (600/1200) grannyring,Just listen carefully to natural live unamped music and nonmusical sounds of nature. The "tight" body of the live piano is like an anvil being hit with a hammer/mallet. The tightness of the bouncing basketball, the scary body of thunde... | |
| Stock Voyager GaN amp (350/600) Contrasted with my EVS1200 (600/1200) Totally correct--"Also, no matter what the instrument I want to hear the leading edge of the notes as well as the body of the instrument, plus the harmonics and decay." All these are attributes of live music. However, in audio systems which lose... | |
| Stock Voyager GaN amp (350/600) Contrasted with my EVS1200 (600/1200) ricevs,Let me try to answer your observations--"Neutrality can be all over the place because no one does straight wire bypass tests on amplifiers. Some call an amp neutral when it has no natural warmth........what is natural warmth? Just your gu... | |
| Stock Voyager GaN amp (350/600) Contrasted with my EVS1200 (600/1200) It's all a matter of degree of warmth. Warmth is most obvious for HF, but the rest of the freq range is affected as well. The most clarity/detail is enabled by neutrality. With a reasonably efficient speaker and music that doesn't demand very l... | |
| Stock Voyager GaN amp (350/600) Contrasted with my EVS1200 (600/1200) Absence of earsplitting pain suggests that the Voyager softens the bad music even just a little. My Rouge IceEdge is quite neutral, whereas the V may be slightly warmer, according to the comments of most V users. I suppose Ric's mods retain the ... | |
| Stock Voyager GaN amp (350/600) Contrasted with my EVS1200 (600/1200) Tweak1,Sorry, I couldn't find the Technics review in TAS online. Do you have a link? What is the full name of the Technics amp so I can try searching for it? Thanks. | |
| Stock Voyager GaN amp (350/600) Contrasted with my EVS1200 (600/1200) Whatever your preferred system and acoustic tweaks you use, listen to the Voyager for many more weeks in a standardized way, and then go back to the EVS1200, to report on your findings. I got lost trying to follow your findings with so many chang... | |
| Stock Voyager GaN amp (350/600) Contrasted with my EVS1200 (600/1200) ricevs,Yes, there are many tweaks that affect the sound. Suppose you have sorbothane feet on amp A and B, then you put better feet on both amps. The essential differences between A and B will still be approximately the same, although both A and ... | |
| Stock Voyager GaN amp (350/600) Contrasted with my EVS1200 (600/1200) tweak1,So you don't find the Voyager tubelike, which are the impressions of others here? The promotional materials for many GaN amps assert that they are smooth/sweet/tubelike. This is true with Voyager and the upcoming Mytek GaN amps. This is ... | |
| Stock Voyager GaN amp (350/600) Contrasted with my EVS1200 (600/1200) tweak1,Appreciate your input. Since you received the V last Thurs, you have only had them 150 hours, with probably much less play time. How do you know how many hours Wally put in for you, as a good customer? Someone on the LSA Voyager GaN thre... | |
| Is D for Dry? Class D... zephyr24069,Reading the Legacy Audio site, it appears that the IV1 monos, IV2 dual monos, and IV4 ultra all use probably the 1200 AS1 module for each channel. They are all in the Master Series. The regular IV4 and IV7 are in the lower Performanc... | |
| Is D for Dry? Class D... Ricevs,Thanks for your insights. Francesco at Rouge Audio says that their amps benefit from 500 hours of break in. PS Audio says 300. Have you taken a broken in stock Rouge Studio N-10DM and compared it to broken in stock PS Audio M1200 ? Afte... | |
| Is D for Dry? Class D... ricevs,I read the 10audio review of the Mivera amp, a stereo stock IceEdge 1200 AS2. Pretty bad--rolled off HF with all the deadly consequences for detail, spatiality, etc. I'm sure the 1200 AS1 stock used for each channel would be better, but h... | |
| Is D for Dry? Class D... ricevs,I'll quote your excerpt from that hometheaterhifi review. "Soundstage width and depth presentation not quite as “big” as some other reference-level amplifiers."This reviewer's reference amps are a BAT and Pass, both known to be tubelike. T... |