LSA Voyager GAN Amplifier

I have about 200 hours on my Voyager now and it sounds very good. Though not as good as the CODA #8, which I am starting to think maybe a great amp. The hardness that I attributed to the Voyager many hours ago seems to have gone away now. However, compared to the CODA #8 it feels like it is be more restrained. It could be the difference in bass between the 2 amps.

When I was burning in the Voyager the last few days I had the CODA #8 on the Thiels with the low end Audience Conductor SE speaker cables. The Voyager was running on the headphone system.

I was busy with work the past few days and had ROON play random tracks. There where so many times where I just had to stop and listen with me thinking wow I never knew it sounded like that. I am not having that wow reaction with the Voyager. It sounds fast, detailed and killer but not at the same level as the CODA #8. 

The Benchmark AHB2 seems a little more focused or sharper than either the CODA #8, Voyager, or KRELL. I prefer that type of sound, but the AHB2  does not compare to the overall level of goodness on the Thiels as any of the 3 other amps.

@ricevs Tell me when your mod queue is free and I will send you the Voyager. I am only 1 day shipping from you.

" Ricevs, what is your website address?"

http://tweakaudio.com/EVS-2/index.html

I am quite interested in Gan but for a multi channel HT amp- anyone know of one coming out?

If anyone in NYC area wants to bring over a Gan balanced amp to compare to my BHK300’s let me know.  Could make a good shootout on TAD CR-1’s.  

In further assessing my stock Voyager, I finally got around to classical. First up was Yellowstone by Chip Davis. I have a connection to this as I visited Yellowstone and hiked around. On one hike along close by a river a small herd of Buffalo came by some 30 yards away from us. I took a picture of a calf suckling on its mother. We stood and watched without moving, and yet the bull came between us and his herd, non threatening, but certainly sending a message.


The album has cuts with nature sounds, as though they were recorded in the open. Expansive, open, well recorded. It's this kind of recording that makes the Voyager special

Hey all, below is a response form Peachtree re their GaN 400 specs/recommendations re load, which is a concern to me and my Thiel 2.3s.  I've posed a similar question to Walter via email.  To my simple mind there's gotta be a difference in design bc of the difference in specs?  

"Our technical gurus tell me that speaker load is challenging but the only way to know for sure is to try it out. It won't hurt anything to do so, but if the amp doesn't sound great, it is likely due to the speaker being too challenging for it to drive it effectively. Not that there is anything wrong with those speakers mind you, just that modern class-D amplifiers are designed much differently than class A-B power amplifiers of the 20th century. Those monsters were often designed to act very linearly down to 2 ohm loads to drive the best speakers of the time which were often 4 Ohm nominal with dips to 2 or below at certain frequencies."  

Much more marketing followed, I edited it out.  I'll add Walter's response when I get it.  I'm very interested in trying one of these but for better/worse Peachtree's guarantee will likely be the deciding factor for me.