LSA Voyager GAN Amplifier

If you are not willing to put in the effort to learn what is common knowledge to so many others in what appears to be your chosen field of business there is little I can do.
 

It's not in his financial interest to admit what others have proven in numerous studies. People who have swallowed the koolaid aren't interested in the truth, it's a faith based belief system.

@tweak1 

Thanks for the input. Do you know at what freq the 12" crosses over to the concentric tweeter?  Don't know it it gets to beaming.

I asked about the X5 because a 12" mid and a 9" high tweeter crossing around 1.1-1.4kHz is supposed to lobe and mid also beam, and that Deltalite has been praised in other forum. But then again I can't hear lobbing with that same tweeter and my 8"s in MTM  xo at 1.8kHz even though it's supposed to be lobbing...so better to ask for first hand experience. 

You guys win....no doubt. Certainly measurements mean everything. So, why are you here on a subjective listening forum? eh? Why not just get a 1975 Pioneer receiver (certainly has low distortion numbers) and a pair of Advent speakers and be done with it. Why would you waste all your precious time trying to convince people that they cannot hear.......or that they cannot believe what they hear? Clearly you guys have a motive for being here. Certainly, you will not convince anyone that your are right......nor will I. The people who listen and decide by listening will keep doing it and the people who decide on what components to buy by specs will keep doing it. Long live us all. I am done this this game. Over and out........at least on this nonsense part of this thread.

By the way, the research paper you linked shows nothing.  It is not even about .1 versus .00001 distortion static numbers.....which is what Objectivists worship.  It is about adding distortion and clipping on purpose to see how it affects sound.  Come on....you can do better than that.....well, actually not, because there are NO tests about different levels of static measured distortion and sound quality.  If there were, then you guys would be quoted it all the time.

It will be interesting to see what Timing3435 thinks of the Topping amp versus the Voyager......$350 versus $3000 and better measurements versus tweaky listened to thang. I may buy a Topping myself to use as a back up amp, and of course, mod the crap out of it.

Happy listening.....and happy measuring. It is all good.

@ricevs, the adult and mature response would be to admit that you are wrong and that we really do know a lot about distortion and how that impacts listening experience.

The is not a "subjective listening forum". It is an audio forum. Those that refuse to learn are destined to repeat mistakes. If you refuse to learn the extensive things we know about sound and how that impacts our subjective listening impression or even to accept that that knowledge exists, then how do you ever hope to design products that more than a few people will subjectively like?

You brought up Nelson pass before. He purposely creates amplifiers that do not accurately reproduce analog waveforms. Not all his amps do this, and not all do that in the same amount. He does this because he has done the work and studied what he can do to his amplifiers to create a better subjective listening experience with a target market. Not everyone likes his amplifiers and you may like one and not another. And because he did the work to find out what people subjectively like and how his amplifier can deliver it, all an "objective" exercise I might add, he is able to charge far more for his amps.

There is nothing "tweaky" or "listened" to w.r.t the LSA. It is off the shelf modules in a box with performance as absolutely dictated by its architecture.