LSA Voyager GAN Amplifier

Ricevs,
To quote you, "So, I did the AC mod (better wire, jack, less fusing, etc.)....now we are talking. It is not as warm but much clearer and faster and real sounding.....the micro harmonic info is not being covered by the excessive warmth. I am now more "moved" by the music."

This is an excellent summary of what I am saying and looking for.  Even though you later qualified your statement to mean that the Voyager is "warmer than the winter" this original quote says it all.  (Often in life, our first statement is how we really feel).  Live, unamplified music has the micro harmonic info that makes us cry.  All audio systems bury the micro info to some extent in the electronic warmth, which is nothing more than distortion from fuzz and mush.  Notice how you say that after your AC mod, the sound "is not as warm but much clearer and faster and real sounding."  YES!

Please guys.....do not respond or reply to George. He will just say the same thing over and over again. He will fight, fight, fight you. It does not matter to him that he has no proof of his 1.5 meg switching superiority or necessity

Kettle, meet pot!

Ric the Tweaker who keeps saying the same bs over and over with no proof, is no different than that other class D dogmatist. At least George tries to offer some sort of rationale, but not Ric: "everything matters". He never includes the part about how most of his voodoo has never been proven to have any basis in fact or reality or the fact that human perception does indeed have limits. Oh, and there is also that pesky bit of reality he ignores called subjective opinion. All his tweaks make things "better". Better for his bank account, for sure, but do people honestly believe everyone has the same opinion/taste as to what is "better"? I am amazed at the people here who blindly drink the koolaid. A fool and his money...

Happy Holiday

Just felt that as this point I needed to send along a few points.

Not here in any way to argue or attempt to interpret anything about the Voyager as said by others. I will however mention a few points as it relates to us. 

There were two of us involved from the very beginning of POC and Module Testing from the very beginning. That would be Doug Goldberg and myself beginning in 2015 (yes... you read that right)

Post these early tests which included some AMAZING higher power modules... my friends Peter Madnick, EJ Sarmento and later, Dr Viet Nguyen contributed to findings and feedback. This is especially true for EJ and Peter. We have all tested and participated in DIRECT FEEDBACK with the maker. I have known this incredible guy I've known for well over 30 years. 

There were several suggestions made during the dev process on the lower power version of this module. This one was the 200 watt version. Walter ultimately decided that he wanted to go with the Higher Power Version which did slow us a bit. 

There were many (read please MANY) revs of the original module. If memory serves - 5 in total, and a huge amount of man-hours testing and listening. I personally have probably near to 300 hours in test and listening to the 200 watt version and then over 100 more with the current module. 

The team that developed these modules and SMPS are some of the brightest super-power Engineers known (to me or otherwise). A real Dream Team. 

Lots of decisions were made along to way productizing The Voyager GaN 350.  I'm proud of the product, and I know our team is as well. This is a very special amplifier. Walter stuck to the program and our end users are reporting some fine results. 

Best wishes,

Mark

 

But the more attention you give to reacting and being in resistance....the more miserable you are.

Well, you know what to do.🙏

As I said to others before, this is just a strange thing to say, that you can see many mods to do to this to "take it to another level", just by looking at this picture. (it's just "snake oil" talk)
https://www.underwoodhifi.com/sites/default/files/GaN%20350%20inside%20shot.jpg

Cheers George