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

I was one of the original members back when the forum was dead. It was me who told him how to increase the traffic to the forum. It was only because he took my advice that the forum is where it’s at today. But when I seen his true motives, I had enough.
 

He invented the internet too.  

Just noticed that Amir deleted most of my likes from my old ASR profile. He was so jealous when I had more than he did. 

And the only thing ASR sycophants care about is 1khz SINAD.

 

Try as I might, I can’t fathom why you come to this forum to piss and moan about what is going on at a different forum. If you have an issue with ASR and the owner, why aren’t you over there ranting? I don’t, and I am pretty sure most others don’t, care about your issues with ASR.

Just noticed that Amir deleted most of my likes from my old ASR profile. He was so jealous when I had more than he did.

You are boring me.

Just explaining ASR to folks who don’t understand what it’s all about. There’s been lots of talk here on this thread about ASR before I arrived.

Would there  be harmonic distortion from a 15khz tone that humans could hear or a band limited amp would amplify?

@djones51  No. The reason that tone is used is to look for intermodulations. Those can be quite a bit lower in frequency depending on what other tones are used in the test. How well it does with this test can say a lot about how relaxed/easy going the amp is to listen to since intermodulation distortion is very audible.

The point of the 15khz tone is to see if the amp struggles with those frequencies. As most amps have a much harder time as the frequency climbs above 1khz.

I seriously doubt any class D amp would 'struggle' with a 15KHz tone. If they are at all competent, the amp would just sit there and do it all day. 

I agree with the rest of this quote though- most amps have insufficient feedback owing to insufficient gain bandwidth product to support the feedback at higher frequencies- so the distortion often rises above 1KHz (contributing to harshness and brightness). I think this might be why distortion is often measured at only 100Hz, so as to cover up that issue. I agree that the spec sheets are mostly marketing tools because they almost never tell you any of the more meaningful information, such as you pointed out above ('...THD+N vs power vs frequency over a 20-20k bandwidth'). Such a graph would instantly show who has the gain bandwidth product and who doesn't. Heaven help us if the spec sheets actually showed something useful...