What are the best GaN Amplifiers available today?


There have been a number of threads discussing the wonder of GaN and some of the individual amplifiers that have caught peoples attention, including those from AGD, Atma-Sphere, Peachtree, LSA, etc. Has anyone done a shootout against two or more GaN amps? If so, which did you prefer, and why? And on what speakers?

Also, of the one you preferred, do you prefer it over every other amplifier you’ve ever heard? If not, what non-GaN amp do you enjoy more?

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Proposing a "tweak" is not the same as designing an amplifier..

For example i had a better experiment to propose about for sure what cannot be measured BUT could be heard :

Put a 250 gram of quartz on your amplifier...

Put a 250 gram of shungite on your amplifier...

Put the two together now...

You will hear a difference...

I fine tune my S. S. amplifier with these minerals tweaks... Really for the best...

But tweaking is not designing... No more than walking with better crutches are like installing an up to date prosthetic legs or growing a new one ..

And an improvement by design is always better than tweaking a design... So good the tweaks will be ... And they will if you know what you do with your ears...😊

But all of what we can learn from a component  and hearing if  we learn how to modify or tweaks it  are not all  measurable...If we tweak...

But if we design , all that we made MUST BE measurable, by defintion of a good design... And it is better if the designer as atamasphere know about harmonics for sure... And i will trust him precisely because of that...

And he knows that objectivist as subjectivist are deluded focussing on the gear but forgetting about psycho-acoustic basic ...

 

Just buy a certified good quality amp to start with and no need to take chances on tweaks.  

Just buy a certified good quality amp to start with and no need to tweak. 

You can also buy a cheaper amp and tweak it (void the warranty) and potentially have an amp that sounds a lot better. I have (or had) both great stock amps and tweaked amps. I listen to music a ton of hours each day on both types of amps. 

I already own a Sansui alpha...

It work well out of the box and is not a bad S.S. design at all...

But i "helped it" not because it need it... But because my ears are not yours...And i like experimenting and i could do it anyway...

Our hearing work non linearly , this means that a little well chosen specific  level of " noise" can increase the signals/ noise ratio for MY EARS ... Differently for yours... It is called tweaking for this reason...

Also some design dont need this helping hand, because the amplifier will be immersed in a specific mechanical,electrical and acoustic environment which can be already optimal without need for "help" and each one of our ears structure and internal filters and biases are different...

Audio is the art of trade-off ... There is NO PERFECT DESIGN...There is no perfect environment for all and every component... For example some speakers need some type of room , some amplifier work better with some speakers or dac etc ...

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Just buy a certified good quality amp to start with and no need to tweak.