LSA Voyager GAN Amplifier

kuribo,
You are one of the few people on any Agon forum to agree with me that the ideal of high fidelity is best achieved with neutrality/transparency.  The "straight wire with gain" is indeed what an amp is supposed to do. Good for you to imply boldly that coloration is just noise.

When you ask any of these tweaker snakes what they mean by "better", they almost by definition bring out a slew of subjective judgments. There is nothing inherently wrong with stating an opinion but to opine that what one likes better must be some sort of objective truth is naive at best and tends more towards pure salesmanship when coming from the purveyors of all this audio shamanism. Wake up people! There is no "better" when it comes to subjective opinion- there is only different and what YOU perceive to be better. When someone says "A is better than B" without any factual evidence of objective superiority, what is actually implied is "I like A better than B". Will you? Maybe yes, maybe no. Confirmation bias after shelling out the extra money makes it almost impossible for people to evaluate the "tweak" objectively.

Sure you can put racing stripes on your new corvette and claim it rides better. You can put a gold leaf label around your bottle of $10 wine and claim it tastes better. You can claim your amp sounds better when your dog is in the room. And for you, it can certainly be true because opinions are not facts, they are based on individual perceptions. And if we know anything for certain, we know that individual perceptions and tastes vary greatly.

So, yes, give me an amp without any "sound" please. When I order a steak, I want to season it to MY taste, not someone else's, thank you.

Why the anger? Name calling? Goodness, this is all subjective and we are here to share the sound we like and what sounds most real and right to us. No right or wrong. No winner. No enemy. 

Tweakers, non-tweakers, it does not matter. We are all human and will hear the same live, unamplified music event differently, never mind a stereo system. Yes differently.

Don't confuse frustration with anger. Just tired of all the self serving pied pipers and their siren songs.

Either way, why go there at all. Again, all this is  subjective and when frustration leads to name calling it is anger.

kuribo,
I don't mind someone saying something is "better," IF he describes what "better" means.  For you and me, "better" means closer to neutrality with more clarity.  For a tubaholic, "better" means warmer, sweeter, fuller, etc.  I can read the comments of both types of listeners and learn something about the product being reviewed.  To obtain maximum usefulness in reviews, "better" should be dropped, and more precise descriptors should be used.