LSA Voyager GAN Amplifier

And I’ll do listening tests as well. I’m not Amir. I believe cables and connectors make a difference. I just don’t believe that degraded objective performance improves the fidelity. And without measuring, and having the stock amp side by side with the modded amp your ears can fool you.

I have already stated several times that my mods to not change the measurements in any way. As I say.....over and over again.....most things that change and improve the sound CANNOT be measured. You ASR objectivists do not believe this and will take it to your grave......good worm hunitng....he he.

Beauty if what you experience when you are awake. You can awaken right now. Look in the mirror. You are the most beautiful person in the world. Love and kisses.

Most of the assembly and layout things that ASR type people go crazy about have little or nothing to do with the sound. They are making mountains out of molehills...because..........THEY DON’T LISTEN......therefore have NO REAL information about what makes things SOUND the way they do.

I want to add this.....what I just said applies to the mods I am currently doing to all class D amps. In the future, I might be changing the input stages to discrete circuits, etc.....and that may change the distortion characteristics......in fact, it is possible that it could even measure worse........but either way, it will sound better.

Some op amps have some much open loop gain that they have amazing distortion numbers even though they do not sound that great.  Some discrete op amps have less open loop gain (therefore less feedback is needed) and these would not have quite as low of measured distortion but could sound much better.  This is why you have companies like Dartzeel, Ayre, etc., etc. using zero feedback or low feedback circuits.....n fact, the LSA is a low feedback system and one reason it does not measure as well as the Purifi module that has a TON of feedback.   Lots of belief systems about this feedback thing and measurement thing....no right or wrong here....just stating what I know.

The bigger question is do your mods degrade the objective performance? Have you measured to verify?

The biggest question is why you would ask this question? he he. Do jacks measure, do wires measure, does removing a power switch measure, does wire directionalty measure, does damping measure, does removing tons of parts that are not needed measure, do different brands of solder measure, does adding modified bypass caps measure, etc. into fininity measure? You answer.....since you are the one bragging about your test gear. I have no doubt you have measured ALL these things. How do they measure?

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The biggest problem is, even if you come up with some mods that result in a pleasant subjective experience, without the right tools for the job it's impossible to verify if you have an exact match channel to channel, or mod to mod. With high resolution audio gear even extra flux on one tiny component can add distortion. Just look at the difference 1 bad XLR solder job did on the amp Amir measured. The more mods to do, the higher the probability of inconsistencies. That's why a proper engineer verifies each and every job with the proper tools before going out the door.