LSA Voyager GAN Amplifier


Just got mine last week.  After 24 hours of play all I can say is that this is not your father's class D amplifier.  There is not one thing about its sound that reminds me of the class D gremlins that I do not like.  The low end filled in and now has deep impact, the midrange is the love child of a beautiful tube and clean hybrid amp - just gorgeous.  Highs are very clean and extended. Spatial cues are top notch. My system has had some damn good tube and solid state amps in it before and it has never sounded this good.  I am blown away with the quality of sound coming from class D amplification at this price point.

This 300 wpc amplifier is a real winner.....
jaymark
Sorry, I did not see that you posted that you were using the Conductor for all tests with the RAAL......however, I just now looked quickly at your posts and did not see it mentioned. Glad you are just changing the amps and not the cable.

Sniff tests might be good for low level detail but we don’t listen to sniffs.....we listen to music. Sounds like the LSA is still a little bit "flat" on music? Will be interested in how much it improves with more burn in (probably not much) and of course, how much better it will be with mods.

Benchmark is a "testing for numbers" company. Their ranking of speaker connectors reflects their tests using resistance numbers....probably. I personally rank bananas as the worst sounding......the best is bare or tinned wire to wire (available only with my binding post bypass system).....then spade to bare wire.....then spade to super low mass binding posts (Furutech or WBT) and lastly bananas.....locking or not. I have never heard Speakons so cannot rank them......they are fairly low mass and simple....so they might be fine.
The Voyager sounded flat with my RAAL but I had a Convolution filter running then. This filter is great with the AHB2 (actually required) and also good with the CODA. The Voyager was sounding flat with the filter. I turned off the filter and the sound took on more life and seemed comparable with the AHB2 and CODA with filter.

The AHB2 without the filter is fatiguing. The CODA does not need the filter but improves slight with it. I spoke with RAAL-Requites Danny on this filter for their headphone and he was very impressed by it. 

I have the Voyager playing 24 hours a day and in 4 days I will be at 200 hours. I will do some listening with the Thiels then. Though I have always liked the Voyager with the Thiel, not so much with the RAAL, until now without the filter.
How about one of the owners of the Voyager posts a pic in their virtual system? There is a "rendered" version on LSA's own site, but not the actual amp in real life.
I got the KRELL K-300i back today and playing some of the same songs as with the other amps. My plans of selling this integrated are now halted. It sounds like the CODA #8 but a little smoother and more bass. I am going to keep the KRELL with my Thiels. I am using the Topping D90se DAC at the moment, this is a great DAC with the warm KRELL.

Is is better than the Voyager? It is not as fast sounding as the Voyager, less exciting, a much more relaxing sound, both have their place. That KRELL bass and smoothness is a winning combo. I have had the KRELL for about 10 months so it is nicely broken-in.
@yyzsantabarbara so it sounds like it boils down to you have a lot of good sounding stuff to work with and each sounds a little different and some match up better than others so you are very blessed.
Lots of words and thinks on this sight dedicated to comparing gear and sighting how they sound different, you know this does this and that does that, etc. but it is all good and one need only choose whatever floats one’s boat at any particular time. Like choosing among fine wines or cigars, beautiful women, etc.