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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
andypandy
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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.

Really!! then those types of mods to me then state, they are brewed up in the darkest recesses of Haiti, by certain tribes, with bone through their noses. Andy.

 

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nonoise
11,130 posts
 

Have you posted here before, under different aliases?

andypandy
49 posts
 

Yes maybe one of those Haitian tribesmen? Andy

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twoleftears
5,320 posts
 

Perhaps we should reflect for a moment on the length of time that the Voyager was in "development". It was announced and then its release was repeatedly pushed back over a considerable period of time.

This is pure speculation, but it makes you wonder if the original idea was for something proprietary and unique to LSA, and that for whatever reason (technology, supply, cost) that eventually didn’t work out, at which point the more "off-the-shelf" items found inside were substituted.

amplifierdude
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EPC:

 

https://epc-co.com/epc

 

Hired EAS to build them a demo board to show off their GaN devices. It was for sale for a few years at Digikey and other distributors around the world. Digikey discontinued it due to lack of sales (because of cost and no improvement in performance over several other cheap class D amps). Then EAS decided to rework the module for OEM sales. However since then companies like Icepower came up with better performing amp modules with integrated supplies for only $68 each including shipping worldwide in lots of 20. So I don’t expect much further interest.

 

 

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