It's funny reading the "arched back"😬 responses from those with a buck to make/loose in this game on threads that they push their own stuff that's got no technical cred whatsoever.
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.....
This 300 wpc amplifier is a real winner.....
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All I can say is that my bias against class D amps has evaporated after listening to the L SA Voyager. I have had some awesome Class A, class A/B and tube amps in my systems. I know good to excellent sound and I hear it with the Voyager - it is excellent. Is it the best amp in the world? I doubt it. Nevertheless, the amp is a superb clean, crystalline, spacious amp with great tone colors. It doesn't break your back to pick up and move around either. Maybe it has trouble driving difficult loads but it has zero difficulty blissfully driving my modded Revel F208s. There are tradeoffs with virtuly any purchase of stereo equipment. I love and have several behemoth Class A amps that I can herniated my back from lifting, the best being my PassLabs X250.5 that is being modded at present. I am very happy with the Voyager and have no longing for my other amps. I had no idea class D could sound like this and I am sure it can be made to sound better. I am no golden ear but, IMO, I have fairly good ears. The Class D gallium nitride amps seem to be the real deal. |
Very easy to drive, no bad -phase angle at those 4ohm dips, so yes Class-D friendly, 4 ohms is where they do their best work, but start to panic at 2ohms, especially if it’s accompanied with >-40 phase angle https://www.stereophile.com/images/714R208fig1.jpg Cheers George |
Please if you don’t know what it means by now, don’t keep asking. This explain it all, https://ibb.co/Bs1tJ7d at 600khz Even at Technics at 1.5mhz there is still some small amount of phase shift in the audio band, so at 800k it's still there "almost" as bad as Icepowers 600k |
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