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

Class D can dazzle in the beginning but as your experiencing the typical class D faults start to raise their ugly head even with GAN. Design is key there is no way around it just because it it uses GAN does not mean great sound. Too many think GAN is a stairway to heaven it can be but only if your good at designing ones circuit, these off the shelf boards in my experience come up short. There is less than a handful of class D amps that can play with the big boys. Most buying these lesser class D amps are looking for a bargain and will convince themselves that they have found it and for them maybe they have.

If i were manufacturing these amps and saw posts about mods making the amps sound so much better i would really be upset. Most consumers will not view this as a positive but as a negative.

If I were manufacturing these amps and saw posts about mods making the amps sound so much better I would really be upset. Most consumers will not view this as a positive but as a negative.

If it is the case, where building is never a no cost objectivity, when making a profit is a consideration, perhaps it might be a driver in better future products? Which will cost more, which the modification also does.

We're still in the early days of the developing GaN amplifiers, I doubt we've seen even close to the pinnacle of SQ in sound available in the near future?? But then, who knows.

A product would never come to market. There is a price segment for each component, a manufacture could have added another 1k by adding an extra this and that but now it’s no longer a 3k amp which was the attraction in the first place, this being done to a new to the market product is not what the manufacture wants to see, it’s different if you have an outdated product and wish too upgrade to current performance. Otherwise it shows that said product is ok but needs help which in this instance seems to be the case.

@rh67 - However, I don't think it's going to stop people purchasing it if they think it's a good deal, and knowing that a well respected modifier as ricevs has proven to be, can make it even better for not an insulting extra fee.

An example from back home was the sale of upgraded PrimaLuna DiaLogue Premium HP integrateds, it came with a neat Duelund capacitor upgrade that really gave it a substantial bump in performance. They were being sold new, with the upgrade done in house, some waited for warranty to expire, many just went for the upgrade.

I suppose even I would prefer to have the upgrades performed by the manufacturer so that warranty issues would be avoided. But if you want the performance right away, and it's there to be had, many will not wait.

What most people don’t understand is that all products need modding....yes, everything I have ever seen....I can make sound better. When you buy a $70K corvette.....you might not blink an eye spending another $40K to get 1100+ horsepower and 8 second quarter miles. That is because everything in drag racing is known. NOTHING is known....he he...in high end audio. Every single thing you do makes a difference sonic wise and most things cannot be measured......so, everyone is afraid to mod.....they think "only the manufacturer knows enough about this product to improve it."  Actually, the truth is the opposite. There are tons of people out there that can improve the amp or whatever. There is a guy on What’s Best who took his $25K Audio Research Anniversary preamp and did thousands and thousands of $ worth of mods to it. He says it is in another world.....compared to stock.

Why did D’Agostino put big heavy brass binding posts on his $250,000 Relentless amps? Why would he run the signal through a hunk of brass rather than a low mass WBT copper connector? Why would he screw up the sound? Maybe he does not know better. Probably is the truth. So, put some WBT output connectors on a Relentless amp and you have a better sounding amp. Please send me your Relentless amps (575 lbs. each) so I can mod them......NOT!!!!!    By the way, the Audion amps use low mass WBT copper output connectors.....yeah for them.

Most people have never tweaked anything.....most don’t even take off the cover and look inside. The first thing I do when I get a new component is take off the cover and see what I can change to get better sound. I have been doing this since 1980. Most manufacturers have a set goal. A lot of them do not even believe in subjective tweaking. Several of the class D modules (GaN and otherwise) were designed purely for specs or specs plus what they consider "low distortion parts"....mostly gotten by inference. The Voyager and the Peachtree use the same modules and power supply. They will sound similar but not the same. The chassis and its resonance, the footers, the jacks, wiring, etc. all have a sound.