LSA Voyager GAN Amplifier

rajugsw,
Sorry you got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. You sound like someone in need of love. I love you.....you are beautiful. The whole world loves you. Give yourself a hug.

Orchard makes a GaN module (that he tried to sell to VTV) and so does the company that makes the ones for Peachtree and LSA. Who is to say which module is better? The Orchard amp is not even released yet. And who cares how old someone is that designed it? Then there is the $3K Wyred for Sound amp coming soon. So, there will soon be 4 GaN amps in the same price range......then there are mods to each one.....so that makes 8 different possibilities. Are you going to be the first to have all 8 of them in your room at the same time and burn them all in for 200 hours and A/B them all and tell us which one you like best? The GaN wars are just starting. We will have more and more of them.

So, stop whining and enjoy what you have. Your amp may be better than "theirs", or it may be different, or worse. Sorry it means so much to you. FYI...The Orchard amp uses a cheap chassis from Italy.....I know, I used that one for my EVS1200 amp. If you press on the top it goes down. If you press on the back panel it moves in (I had to do mods to it to not have it do that). Not well designed. Do you think the Orchard tree logo looks great on it? The power supply Orchard uses is a stock power supply from Hypex. Sorry to burst your bubble. I don’t care which one is best.....I mod them all.

Enjoy this moment.....it is the only moment that is this moment.
Breath......everything is fine.....just the way it is.
Love yourself and everyone.
Dance and sing a joyful song.

riaa_award_collectors_on_facebook
Your clueless when it comes to REMASTERED CD’s. The Original CD Pressings in the 1980’s are VASTLY Superior in most cases compared to your beloved "remastered" Crapola nowadays that is compressed to death/Brickwalled/Loudness wars...whatever you want to call it.

+1

For those in denial look at this (red bad squashed to death) compressed
They only got together once and made the one album master, but it was re-released many times but got gradually squashed to death with compression the newer the release got. Just for listening in car/streaming/download/ipod and background music

https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list/year?artist=Traveling+Wilburys

Cheers George

Ricevs,
My Rouge is pretty substantial. 23 lbs, decent casework.  Francesco wrote me and asked whether I wanted white or blue LED on lights, details about engraving of the round dial on the front.  He treated me as if I were ordering an expensive D'ag amp.  Rouge looks like a higher class company than the DIY'ers.  They have many different products using Pascal, Hypex, Anaview modules as well as IceEdge.  Thanks for recommending Rouge.

@rajugsw


If the LAS Voyager was an off the shelf module that was 'merely' in need of an input, I and presumably many others would not have been waiting 2 full years from it's initial intorduction

Actually, the Voyager and Peachtree are using off the shelf modules (the amp modules and power supply) that do not need a separate input stage. They are both plug and play boxes. There will be more companies following suit. LSA and Peachtree had very little to do with the development of these modules......they are end users.

The main reason GaN amps have taken so long to be available is.......you had to design your own amp board, like Merrill, Orchard, AGD and Class D audio did. There were no companies making and selling GaN based modules. Now there is. And these modules are really good!.....even without mods.

Here is the main problem with Class D.......it is complex
The input buffer on a class D amp has as much circuitry in it as a Coda 8 amp. And that is just the first input buffer. And these input buffers are usually $1 op amps.....not discrete stages.....this is true for AGD, Orchard, LSA, Peachtree, and Class D audio. I don’t know what is in the Merrill as they will not allow anyone to remove the cover.
So, you have an input stage that is not as pure as the whole Coda amp....then you add another op amp......and then maybe more and then the driver and then the output devices and then the coil on the output.....Wow! it is amazing that they sound good at all!!! And they do. Miracles do happen.

But there is no way there will ever be a class D amp that is truly state of the art until someone does every thing to the nth degree.....that means no op amps.....that means every part picked for sound.....this is what Boulder and Coda and Gryphon, etc. do. When you see these big companies make a class D amp.....the game will be over. Class A will truly be boat anchors...

So, is the new $3000 about to be released GaN amp from Wyred for Sound all built with discrete transistors and tweaked to the max? How about the new Mytek GaN amps at $6K and $20K? Will we see state of the art class D soon?

So, if the AGD amp has $1 op amps on its front end....how come it sounds so good? Because you have a listener/tweaker at its helm. He spent hundreds of hours tweaking the Mk II version. Please read the review on Enjoy the Music about it.

http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/equipment/0421/AGD_The_Audion_MkII_Review.htm

However, as long as he keeps those $1 op amps in there....it will never be state of the art. No doubt he is tinkering away as I speak.

All the new GaN amps are great for the money.....and modded they can be taken to new heights......but do not expect state of the art.....not yet.....soon....however, it probably won’t be cheap if everything is done to the nth degree........I would guess above $10K......and at first, maybe way out there.

So, now you know.

Have a great every moment......you deserve it.  You are beautiful.