LSA Voyager GAN Amplifier

atmasphere,
Thanks, confirming what I thought.  I bought the Rane ME 60 when I walked into a pro audio store in 1995.  My recordings of my orchestra on a small stage of a medical school hall were dead and dull.  Neither the conductor nor I was happy.  After using the Rane in the recording to boost HF and cut some bass, we were happy.  I then inserted the Rane into my audio system for regular commercial recordings, using it flat as just a line stage.  It demolished the Spectral DMC 10 gamma line stage for openness and clarity.  Recently I bought a tweaked Rane with vibration damping by poster mrdecibel.  It was even more open than my original Rane.  He agreed with me that the Rane is more transparent than many audiophile line stages priced around $10K.  Only his passive Luminous preamp beat the Rane for transparency.

Since my listening preference is very close as a violinist performer, I want to hear my recordings with that perspective.  I use the Rane with HF boost above 8 kHz, which does a great job as a facsimile of reality.  Believe me, it is most important to use judicious EQ by ear, which is a bigger factor than the relatively small differences in line stages.  Many audiophiles have closed minds and mock pro audio equipment and concepts.
 

Many audiophiles have closed minds and mock pro audio equipment and concepts.

The Rane is an opamp-based circuit and as long as they are not demanding too much gain out of any particular opamp it should perform really well. Rane stuff is designed by actual engineers :)  I use one in my keyboard rig, but when I've used the mic input its proven that its very transparent.

Received my Voyager today. My DAC has no volume control so started with the Oppo
for burn in.
Question- I have a pair of tube mono preamps. Older TEACs designed for late 50's R2R
for Japanese market. 

Will these monos be a good match for the LSA 350?

Thanks

Will these monos be a good match for the LSA 350?

Have they been serviced out- new filter capacitors in the power supplies and the like? If yes, then its certainly worth a try. If no, I would not run them at all until that's been done- your power transformers are at risk.

atmasphere,
Interesting about your use of the Rane mic input.  You might have a different Rane product than my ME 60 which doesn't have any input marked mic.  But some of these opamps are excellent, like the Jensen 990 (I think) used by John Hardy in his mic preamp.  Back in 1995, I made several 1 min recordings of myself playing the first page of the solo Mendelssohn violin concerto, using various preamps, mikes.  Even if my playing had slight variations, my violin tone still enabled me to hear the differences between mikes and their preamps.  The John Hardy was the fastest and leanest, but it was a little unnatural, so I chose the Bryston preamp, the most transparent of the other common pro units.

Try the Rane ME 60 in your audio system (not the later ME 60S which is more colored), on eBay for $200 or less.  RCA outputs have unity gain, XLR, 6 dB.  The quarter inch diameter rotary volume control is crude, which you could upgrade.  Still, as is, a great line stage.  I hope you experiment with the enormous EQ capabilities--up to 12 dB boost or cut for 30 one third octave bands from 20-20kHz.  There are lots of overlaps in these parametric curves.  Boosting exclusively from 8 kHz on up still brings out the buzz on cello and string bass, and removes lots of midrange mud on other instruments.  Have fun, and give me feedback.