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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
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jaymark OP
519 posts
 
The Voyager in my system has lost virtually all hardness on the top end,  except on the rare recording.  It is being driven by the Sachs tube preamp.  I concur that it does not have balls to the wall bass like some behemoth class A amps that I have.  Nevertheless, the bass is just fine and is impactful.  I am now close to 175 hours on the amp.  And I am not itching to get the Pass Labs X250.5 back in there.  The PassLabs is one fine amp - solid state done right.
yyzsantabarbara
5,026 posts
 
I did some head-to-head comparison today with the KRELL and the Voyager with my favourite music. Today, I enjoyed the Voyager more than the KRELL even though the KRELL seemed more powerful. Surprisingly, the better bass on the KRELL worked against it because I noticed it was a bit too much for my small room. The room is treated and I use DSP on streaming. I could fix that but not interested in doing that now.
pinwa
298 posts
 
I got the Peachtree GaN 400 the other day.  So far it sounds great.  It is a bit hard to tell without taking apart the case, but it appears to have identical, or nearly identical, internals to the LSA Voyager GAN 350.  Is a third party supplying complete modules to these new GaN amps? The Class D Audio Mini GAN 5 is a completely different build but it is still burning in for a few hours before I listen to it.
jackd
1,077 posts
 
Chances are both amps are being built by the same OEM with different casework as the interior layout does appear to be identical.  The Peachtree from the photos appears to be the more visually attractive of the two. If and when the W4S version comes out we may or may not get some idea as to who the OEM is.  
viber6
2,454 posts
 
Jaymark and yyz both imply that the Voyager has tighter but less quantity of bass than Pass and Krell.  This observation is consistent with the Voyager's accuracy.  Euphonic classic tube amps are notorious for big but loose bass.  This also applies to SS amps like Pass and some Krells that try to please tube lovers.  Score victory for Voyager for bass quality.
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