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

So, you look at the layout and you see sonic failings?  What, the AC cable is kinda close to one input cable?  How much sonic degradation will that do?  Can you quantify it?  Did you move the input cable an inch or so farther away and then heard nirvana?  This is all the ASR people have is measurements.....and cables that are theoretically not perfectly tied up.  No listening......just bad mouthing. 

The only thing that really matters is how something sounds.  What matters to many is being right........and making things wrong.  A much higher vibe is to make things right.....to praise....to uplift....to care.....to be truly helpful....to what people really want.  What do you want?  To be happy?  or be right? 

Our ears are the best test equipment known to man.

Nonsense, ears are enjoyment equipment. If you want tests, use man-made test equipment.

One thing I have learned in audio, whenever an audiophile says he can't hear, believe him. No matter what anyone else says abraxalito, I believe you. 

Sorry, you cannot know how something sounds by measuring it.  You have to listen......the ear knows what sounds good.........this is the best test.  Yes, you can get measurements out of a machine....and they have some use in audio.  But they do not tell you how it sounds.  Very different from drag racing......drag racing is power, weight, traction, gearing and drag.....you can measure all those things and make a car via these specs and it will make the quarter mile exactly as you calculate.  Audio is nothing like that......most things that change the sound....CANNOT, I repeat, CANNOT be measured.  So, the only way to know which amp gets down the quarter mile the fastest is to listen in your own system versus another amp......that is the only way to test it.

You are of course correct. Literally. Sound literally cannot be measured. This is just a fact. But it is a fact many of us miss because we confuse and conflate sound with pressure waves.

Pressure waves we can measure. This is literally what we measure with dB, pressure waves. When pressure waves reach a human ear they can sometimes be perceived as sound. Sometimes, because frequency or amplitude may fall outside human perception. But this is the key to understanding, hearing sounds is a human psychological perception. Physical measurement of pressure waves is not.

 

People who fail to grasp this crucial point are perpetually puzzled and unable to answer the simplest question: If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one there to hear it does it make a sound? This is not a trick question. The answer is NO! The tree falling vibrates the air. Vibrations in air are not sounds. Human beings hear sounds. Microphones do not. 

This is so obvious, it should be Audio 101. Instead, look how many pretend to be audiophiles while not even understanding this most basic concept.