LSA Voyager GAN Amplifier

ASR review: what a crock! 93 people didn’t like it at all. When the hell did 93 people get one to report negatively? Down right slander

Measurements tell a lot, It does not look good to me.

If you have a 4ohm load then it’s going to sound rolled off in the highs, compared to if you have an 8ohm load, then it'll sound hot in the highs

And then there’s the terrible designed balanced input gain and noise difference, rca was fine.

Thanks Andy

As I noted here - https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=179033.msg1882290#msg1882290   "There are all kinds of skill levels when using a tool of any kind.  It is always better when the people with the most skills use the same tool.  Pros always make it look easy and that's why in many cases even when I have tools for something I can do, I call a real pro."  Knowing how something sounds requires listening.  I've owned a bunch of amps (Class A/AB as well as Class D) and it's easy knowing what something really sounds like when one has lived with them long term and listened to the same music (and I've posted about my speakers many times and their impedance measurements, which also can be found as measured by real pros from major audio magazines and no need to post it again here in response to a worthless audio website - I also will not be waiting up on an upcoming holiday for a visit from Santa and don't need to re-post about that either - whatever one enjoys - go ahead and enjoy).

Andypandy,

Look closely at the graph.......these divisions are one half db.  At 10K....where MAYBE you could hear a difference......at 8 ohms it is .2db high........at 4 ohms it is .3db down.  You can hear that?  Can anyone hear that?.....don't think so.  Usually it takes a half a db for someone to notice a gain change.  The Oppo volume control on the 205 player had one half db steps......and you could barely hear it.......and that was changineg the gain of all the music.....not just at 10K.

The particular amp that was reviewed was obviously not functioning properly.  All of us who have listened to this amp via balanced inputs would have noticed the difference in gain (10 db.....and the distortion difference).

So, you have a broken amp and a test that tells nothing about how the amp sounds. .....and of course, ASR does no listening tests.  If someone else sent him another Voyager amp it would not have that gain/distortion issue.  The Voyager amps I have had here work perfectly....same gain on both channels....measured and listening wise.  A seriously good sounding amplifier.

Longtime A'goner here, and I generally just lurk, but I feel compelled to defend the LSA 350 GaN amp. I've only had it for a few days and it is far from broken in, but it is a spectacular unit. I purchased it after considering a wide range of amps to replace my Parasound Halo A21 which bit the dust after 15 years of service. the GaN sent my otherwise awesome Wyred4Sound SX-1000R's to my HT room. ASR has its uses, but it is far from Holy Writ. They clearly received a faulty unit. I can only comment on mine, and it sounds superb.