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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.....
jaymark
chorus
976 posts
 
Thanks. I leave town Tuesday for 5 days and will leave the unit on while I am gone. Thats another hundred hours.
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yyzsantabarbara
5,123 posts
 
Some people were asking me what the status of the modded Voyager. Ric sent it out last Thursday from the Bay Area, CA to be sent to me in Santa Barbara.CA. That is just a straight line 300 mile drive. FedEx has set the deliver date for Wednesday. Unbelievable.

I really hope the Voyager works like magic on my RAAL SR1a or Thiel CS3.7 in the office. I have new plans of getting the new RAAL lower end SR2a  headphone for my bedroom listening. This will work nicely (without needing to buy a headphone amp) if the Voyager works with the RAAL SR1a or Thiel.
cascadesphil
232 posts
 
Most of us are all anxiously watching this thread for updated information.  Thanks to all who are giving real world feedback.
yyzsantabarbara
5,123 posts
 
FedEx is the worst. They delayed my shipment of Ric's modded Voyager again and now say this Thursday by the end of the day. I hope so because I am off to Texas this Friday morning. 

So the way this stands for me now is that if the amp is delivered on Thursday I will try to have something setup to play the amp 24 hours a day until Sunday when I get back home. I will listen on Monday.

I have upgraded my FM tuner this month. The new one arrives on Monday and I now need to pay for it (always the tough part). I was thinking of selling the Voyager to do so but I am not going to do that immediately. I need to make a longer range decision whether I keep the CODA 07x preamp and Voyager or sell both to pay for the tuner and buy new RAAL tube amp for the SR1a and SR2a headphones. I believe FedEx or US customs destroyed this new RAAL tube amp that I went to hear (someone dropped it).  So I now have to wait until November to hear it.

So keep that in mind when I give my feedback on the Voyager next week.
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