LSA Voyager GAN Amplifier

One thing I learned yesterday and now today with more listening is that when I add or remove things in my room I need to really test everything again.

I created a thread a few months ago about adding a TV into my room in-between the Thiels. I ended up buying a sound absorption panel based on recommendations. The end result was that even with the panel, moving the TV in-between the speakers really messed up the sound. The TV was previously to my LEFT closer to me than the speakers, so some reflections.

Today I have the TV still to the LEFT but now in front of me and with good distance from the speakers. The sound absorption panel that I bought is now propped up beside my CD storage rack (I just need a place to store it). This was likely giving some bad reflections in the past. However, today I removed my Convolution filter for the Thiels and the sound is not fatiguing as in the past without the filter and the prior arrangement. I got to do more listening but this is a good initial observation for me.

@jaymark 


Thanks for your informative thoughts on the LSA Voyager GaN amplifier.
A few questions if you don't mind-
I see you also have the Parasound a21+.  I also have this amp and like it but it isn't as pristine sounding as my former tube amplifier. 
Can you please compare the a21+ to the Voyager? 

As far as class D is concerned I have heard some very good ones.  Even the best have a fatal flaw to my ears- dealing with music that has intentional distortion effects.  Lots of rock music have recordings that compress and intentionally distort the music for effect- example Sonic Youth, Spoon, Arcade Fire, others. 
The class D amps tend to make the intentional distortion sound horrible- intolerable as a matter of fact. 
Have you had a chance to listen to music like this on the Voyager? 

Thank you. 
Tony  

Yyz,

I also have found that room changes are often audible, so i do like to do a brief reassessment after making them.  The changes I’ve made the last 8 months have all been focused on improving acoustics but sometimes just storing something or moving something out because it’s needed elsewhere is audible.  

Like with your convolution filter, I now like the SQ better with my room correction turned off.   But that may change back for reasons I won’t go into for now…..

This thread is about the LSA GAN-fet amp experiences being reported to the rest of us….

Thanks for reporting so thoroughly.

And, certainly thanks to Jaymark for starting the thread and reporting….

Avanti1960,  the Parasound A21+ is a very sold amp, however, it is not as crystalline clean/clear as the Voyager.  Probably a bit more grunt on the low end than the LSA Voyager.  The PassLabs X250.5 is also a better sounding amp than the A21+.  I do not listen to much rock.  But on what I do listen to, jazz, New Age, classical, and some R&B, I have not found anything that is irritating or unlistenable because of amp distortion.