LSA Voyager GAN Amplifier

I really do not understand what you are trying to communicate here. You do not like mods and think they are a waste of time. Great! However, I do not think that way and I have an example of where mods took a ground breaking audio piece, Sony SCD-1, to much greater levels of audio bliss. If this is to become a religious argument, so be it. I am a believer.

No, I didn't say I didn't like mods and think they are a waste of time. I don't like charlatans bilking people out of their money by claiming they can do a few superficial "tweaks" and suddenly take a solidly engineered product with state of the art performance and, wave hands, dramatically "improve" the product. It's a con. People want to believe and there's always a prophet willing to accommodate them, for a fee. History is full of these scammers and the world full of those all too willing to believe their tale.

There are mods that surely improve the performance of any machine, based on science and engineering. You want your car to go faster? Modify the engine to produce more horsepower, don't put racing stripes on it.

Can you think of another industry where you charge people to improve the performance of something and then denigrate those who ask for proof that they have actually received something for their money? "Trust me"....um, no thanks.

I don’t like charlatans bilking people out of their money by claiming they can do a few superficial "tweaks" and suddenly take a solidly engineered product with state of the art performance and, wave hands, dramatically "improve" the product. It’s a con. People want to believe and there’s always a prophet willing to accommodate them, for a fee. History is full of these scammers and the world full of those all too willing to believe their tale.

Here here🤙 especially when they don’t say what mods they will do for how much, when they just see a pic of it with no measurements and or oscilloscope bench testing and say they can take it to another level.

Cheers George

Blah, blah blah went the weeping anti tweakers.....If I described exactly what I did and know then it would not matter......you would say its still all voodoo......You guys have no clue because you do NOT LISTEN.....If you listened.....you would know.  But instead, its a righteous rant.

Do you realize that all your equipment is modded?  Every improvement by every manufacturer is a mod/tweak of what they did before.  Everything is improving.  Most here would not want amps, preamps or whatever from the 80s......they just are not modded enough.....not tweak enough.  Mark Shifter said there were 5 revisions of the first board considered for the LSA......the new board....is rev D.......so that makes 9 mods.....9 tweaks.  Don't you get it?.....any improvement is a tweak.....and mods includes, jacks, wire, fuses, chassis damping, op amps, capacitors, circuits, heatsinks, timing issues, rf, shielding....etc. etc. into infinity.

Again, many that have not listened to parts and things in a serious way think that it is all numbers......but most high end manufacturers are changing things to make it sound better....not measure better.....sometimes they get better measurements.....but usually, just better sound.  Check out the latest buzz on the the Schitt audio Iggy DAC....they now have 3 different versions that all measure differently and a lot of those who listened blindly.....liked the worst measuring one the best......come on....go read it... 

Wake up and smell the tweaks....a lot of nice flavors here.

ricevs,
To convince skeptics that your mods increase the clarity and speed, for example, maybe you can explain in technical terms why they produce those sonic improvements.  For example. on IceEdge amps like Legacy iv2 or Rouge, the input impedance is 38 Kohms or so.  You increase it to 150 Kohms.  To make an analogy with moving coil phono cartridge loading, I have always found that high loading of 47 Kohm yields more HF with clarity compared to loading in the 100's.  Some have claimed that the 100's avoid the HF boost from loading at 47 Kohms.  Personally, I don't care about whatever technical flaw of HF boost occurs--I like the increased openness and clarity at 47 K.

So why did the stock designers settle on 38K?  Didn't they experiment with 150K?  Maybe you will say that they didn't put in as much listening time as you did, and just decided that 38K measured well and they just settled there.

More generally, if Voyager did all these revisions, they did the listening.  So why do you get better results after only a week of playing with it, compared to their 2 years of delays due to their tweaking?

Just a waste of time.  Most of the stuff that changes and improves the sound has no technical (measurable at this time) benefit.  You cannot convince ANYONE of anything.  They have to be ready to change.  The ego does not want to change......its whole game is survival of what is ALREADY known.  Just like you are addicted to constantly talking about clarity and speed......and I am more and more addicted to Love and listening, sharing and mother/fathering.   What addictions are most beneficial to real knowledge and real joy?  We are all addicts!  I love you.