LSA Voyager GAN Amplifier

I made some decisions on my amps last night. The Voyager beat my KRELL K-300i in a head-to-head shootout. I like the excitement factor of the Voyager over the very relaxed sound of the KRELL. However, the KRELL is just too good to sell, so I made it my primary headphone amp. In the past, I thought is was the very best RAAL SR1a headphone amp, a 10/10 on the RAAL. It is now tied with the CODA #8 on the RAAL, the Voyager is still not at that level with the RAAL SR1a.

So I put the CODA #8 back with my Thiel’s and changed the input connection of the DACs from XLR to RCA into my CODA 07x preamp. The RCA seems to have lowered the hiss to whisper levels. Still not Benchmark level but good enough. The 07x sounds great but a bit of a PIA to use. It maybe good now.

The CODA #8 sounds incredible now with the Thiel’s. There is power, detail, and very full sounding bass. Just the very best the Thiel’s have sounded, better than the Benchmark AHB2’s (9/10). The Voyager does not approach this level of sound yet. If the CODA #8 is a 10/10 the Voyager is 8/10. The KRELL was a 7.5/10 (for my music).

It is now the CODA #8 and the Voyager for the final shootout to see which stays with the Thiel. Or I could state, does the CODA #8 ever come off the Thiel’s.

I don't see any images on-line yet of the innards of the Peachtree, but the back panel is organized completely differently from the Voyager.  Of course the modules and power supply may still be the same.

I assume you are using the Conductor speaker wire on both the Coda and Voyager when driving the Thiel's?

@ricevs Yes the Conductor SE speaker cable. The FrontRow is on the sidelines until next week. I did try the FrontRow for 1 album and it is at another level of goodness. However, I reluctantly took it off and put in the Conductor cable for the past few hours.

I will be burning in the Voyager on the RAAL interface box (I have 2 of these now) until Monday. After a few more hours the weekend starts and I will let the Voyager burn in non-stop. I won't be listening this weekend on this system. That should get me very close to 200 hours.

The chassis of the GAN 5 is steel.  The GaN 400 is non-magnetic.  Since the GAN 5 is probably going to be returned I'm not going to open it up so see if removing the top makes any sonic difference.

The GaN 400 is organized quite differently internally compared to the picture of the Voyager but there is a sort of screen on the top of the GaN 400 that lets you peer inside to a limited extent and the layout of the components seems identical to the Voyager.  Now I could be wrong about them having identical modules because the view is so restricted and I can't see the totality of the board.