LSA Voyager GAN Amplifier

@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.

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.

This part of your post is just petty, angry, disrespectful, and inaccurate.

Its just the facts, as I see it...and read it......and it makes you angry because you HAVE to be right.....so you lash out and call me names. Name calling is usually the last defense of the ego. You don’t need your ego. We are all ready beautiful. You don’t have to defend yourself. There is nothing to defend....the ego is an illusion.....created so we can have some fun. Don’t take it so seriously. Love you. Now I am reallly done.....he he. I will not reply to you again. Have a beautiful life.

BTW, the "off the shelf" modules you talk about were listened to and tweaked over a couple year period by various people in the high end community. Check out Mark Shifter’s comments on this (he was one of the main people).  They made it sound the way it does on purpose.....I think they did a very good job.  The measurements were secondary to the listening tests.  And that is just the way it is.  Believe it, or not.  he he...

So, what are you guys listening to this evening? I’m listening to vinyl. Right now - Nirvana - "Unplugged in New York". Sounds pretty darn good, and I’m not even really much of a Nirvana fan.

Peace be with you. And you. And you...

Pink Doughnuts.