GaN amps: Peachtree or LSA Voyager?

As an owner of a GAN amp I will say that everyone has different experiences and the sound we look for can be different.

Here is another review on a GAN amp.

The new Rose integrated is also coming out with 4 GAN amps inside.

@atmasphere 

While I admire all you've done in this industry, I never needed to see measurements (nor would I understand them anyway) to validate, or not, my ability to hear whether something improves my listening experience, be they power cords/interconnects, going from rca kit to all dif balanced systems, dedicated lines, isolation/vibration devices, connection treatments, and in each of these examples  some/many are snake oil and others revelations

I recently acquired the LSA Voyager amp. I tend to prefer tube amps but my current Line Magnetic LM518 gets pretty hot so I like to use something else in the summer. I also wanted to try something different with my system and was curious to hear a GaN FET amp. My current system is a Denafrips Terminator DAC --> Audio GD HE XLR1 tube pre --> amp --> Cube Nenuphar Mini speakers. The speakers are single driver crossover-less that tend to prefer low damped, no negative feedback designs. They sound amazing with the LM518 and I also have a 1.5 wpc 45 tube amp that also sounds amazing. I really don't need a lot of power but I've curious to try the GaN FET. I also have some standmount speakers that aren't so efficient so I figured I could use this amp with those as well.

I received the amp a couple of weeks ago and briefly hooked it up to make sure it was working. My impressions are only after listening for a couple of hours, but so far I am impressed. I've listened to class D before and I always felt like I was hearing all of the pieces of the song, but not the music. Just never felt engaged. This amp had me engaged. It was dead quiet, detailed, and dynamic. I will spend more time listening to it soon. I was having trouble with my dual REL subs and realized the connection method to a class D amp is different for the subs, so I went back to the LM518 until I'm ready to hook the subs up using the Voyager. Once I get more time I'll post my thoughts, but so far this is the best class D I've heard.

Also, I haven't heard the Peachtree but I am a fan of their products. The Nova was my first 2-channel integrated and my "gateway drug" into this hobby. I've had 3 of their integrateds and even have their Deepblue speaker. The only reason I didn't try their amp is I found a great deal on a used Voyager. I heard the amp modules are pretty much the same in the Peachtree and Voyager. Not saying they're the same but I'm guessing the amps sound pretty similar. IMO the Peachtree looks better and if I had my amp out in the open I'd prefer that amp, but mine's in a cabinet so it didn't matter to me.

@atmasphere 

I see and understand your point. As a designer/manufacturer you have to be involved with measurement. And the quality of your work speaks for itself.

Tweak1's point is also a good one. As a consumer with little to no background in electronics, most of the displayed specs for any piece of gear are simply beyond my understanding. Yes, I could undertake to educate myself, but I simply have no interest in that aspect of it. So while it might put me at a disadvantage in purchasing new gear, I gather whatever info I can from various sources (I'm the OP) but ultimately it is my ears/perception of the piece in my system that will decide if it stays. 

Rick can speak for himself, but I suspect he falls somewhere in the middle. I doubt very much if he has access to the kind of testing equipment you use.

 @tweak1 

My audio experience is quiet extensive, going back some 30 years before I was a partner in Audio Tweakers in the early 2000s.
 

If you understood why your subjective opinions and experiences mean nothing to anyone outside of yourself perhaps you wouldn't post this logical fallacy called an appeal to authority, in this case your own.

Read carefully what @atmasphere has written.

Sure, you can trust your own ears, and ignore the measurements and science, that's fine for you. The problem is there is no reason for me nor anyone else to trust your ears.

Like it or not, an amplifier is defined asa device that increases the amplitude of a signal as high in fidelity as possible. We can use science to evaluate its performance as an amplifier. Some people want a wire with gain. Others prefer sweet distortion. To each his own. When an amplifier fails in a gross way to achieve it's design objective due to variable frequency response with load, it's not a good amplifier. It may make you happy, but it's not a good amplifier by definition.

As to the tweaks that can't be measured or substantiated in any scientific or objective way, they are fraud, pure and simple. If you and others want to shell out money and support the charlatans who are all too happy to take your money, please feel free to continue to prove PT Barnum correct, as so many others have.