LSA Voyager GAN Amplifier

Tweakie Ric says trust your ears but what he really means is trust his ears because only he knows what sounds better and best. All his money making self promoting tweaks that take an amp to an 11 are all done without any basis in objective reality- he preaches "everything makes a difference" yet nothing he does can be measured- just "trust him" and his magic ears that everything he thinks is an improvement will be an improvement to all.

Yes, experiments have been done which show that certain measurements can in fact be indicative of the perception of sound. Certain distortion harmonics are generally preferable over others, for example. The job of an amplifier is to reproduce the input at the output as accurately as possible, only larger. Measurements provide an indication as to whether or not the amp is doing it's job. Some people can tolerate or even prefer certain distortions, others want an amp that delivers the input as accurately as possible. Tastes differ but the only people that claim measurements are meaningless and their golden ear is the only arbiter of truth are usually those trying to sell something, like Tweakie Ric.

 

I did not even use the XLR 's so had no idea one was defective.  Again I just wanted to know how it measured vs other  AMPs. Does anyone have a listening experience of this amp vs the Benchmark ABH2  which measures well and some like the sound? 

I talk about the AHB2 monos and the Voyager on a lot of posts on this thread. Stock and EVS modded Voyager,

BTW - The Voyager is a very good amp and the measurements from ASR does not change my opinion on thata.

To @ricevs point, your ears are the final qc in the chain. Even my video calibrator with all his expensive instrumentation, uses his eyes for final settings. It's no different with audio. There is more to audio than measuring equipment can show. For example, intensity, density or projection. Some amps with excellent specs have a capacity to project sound into the room than others with excellent specs. I found this out when I compared a Class A/AB to a Gan class D. Both measure well and the Gan costs almost twice the price. The a/b simply sounded better to my ears because of how it projected sound into the room. I found this to be crucial in order to get more involved in the music. The Gan amp had all the elements of an excellent amp, spec wise, but in the end it just wasn't projecting the music into the room in the same manner despite it being the more powerful of the two. The sum of the parts didn't add up in the end. There was almost no connection to the music, even though it was a clean sound. Test measurements simply don't measure this sort of thing. So in the end, my ears and my connection to the music took priority at  and the class A/B was the better of the two without question mainly due to intensity, density and projection. 

"your ears are the final qc in the chain"  That is exactly what audio is about (that's why there's many flavors of ice cream too) and hearing and not liking something is not a bad thing.  Too many ultracrepidarian people in the thread never leads to a resolution as they have no interest in actual experience and no point in debating when their premise is entirely based on flawed information.  If one buys a package of 9V batteries and then measures one at 7 volts and proclaims the brand sucks it is more or less like sticking your hand out the window and feeling wet and assume that it is raining when it may have been birds flying overhead and doing their business.  To each their own.