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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I trust you for sure...And the ears of your friends...

You are right there is no simple absolute solution wrapped in one box...

 

I will go the road of opting out of the grid.... 😊

the cheapest upgrade is this 700 bucks gisandel...

my audio system is so perfect now for my ears i sense the only big elephant is the noise floor...

Going from the house i sold to the other i bought was illuminating ... It was an improvement...

but i must go off the grid....Your solution is the cheapest i had seen...

By the way look the battery i discovered... A deal i think 500 canadian dollars ...

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0BX8S2VJ5/?coliid=IKXADUV0BL4GC&colid=1BP2ARF9W3KAX&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it&th=1

 

I own a Sansui alpha 607i i think the consumption is 380 watts 460 VA rated 720 watts maxinmum ...

What do you think ? I use a small battery dac .... I like it... Then only my amplifier will be on the Gisandel+ battery...

 

On your site you suggested a more powerful inverter 5,000 watts  than the one you suggested here, 2000 watts,  my question is : with my amplifier Sansui would i have enought hours of music  between battery charge ?

The 5000 watt Giandel Inverter ($900) does its job well fed by LifePo4 batteries.  If you are using digital amps then one $800 battery will give you sound for 8 hours straight without charging .

I am not an electrical engineer , i apologize for the simplistic question ...😊

 

 

Yes, its cheaper if you buy it directly from Giandel (for now).  If you cannot figure out this inverter thing with research then just call me......I can walk you through it.  I will put more info on my site in a few days that will give more detail about the inverter and battery requirements. 

We have taken this thread way away from amps......but with good intention......so, any more amp info?

No more GaN amp info here, but I am eagerly awaiting your modded GAN 400 to be evaluated by yyzsantabarbara to see how close it got to his Coda 16 when using the LRS+.

@derekw_hawaii Sorry to inform you that I have not sent the amp in to Ric (yet). I am not sure if I will sell it so I may not mod it. Since I sold my amazing RAAL VM-1a this week I needed to figure out how to get both my RAAL phones and my LRS+ to work with the gear I have. One result of this finding lead me to buy the Sanders Sound System MagTech amp today as the replacement for the GAN400 with the LRS+.

I have been using the GAN400 with the RAAL phones the last couple of days and it is very good, but still has that slight hardness. I will use the GAN400 this way for a while. The KRELL Duo XD amps are better on the phones than the GAN400 but I have no money or space for the KRELL at the moment.

I am listening to Robbie Robertson’s debut album on the LRS+ and the GAN400 as I type this, and I have never heard this album sound so good. I used to listen to this album at least once a week for maybe a decade. The 2 best speakers I had in the past were the Thiel CS3.7 and Revel Salon 1, but this LRS+ is just killing both of those with this album. Incredible sound for $1000. The GAN400 is also responsible for this so do not let my comments indicate that the GAN400 is a bad amp.

Even though I have not modded the GAN400 I do not expect Ric to make it sound even close to the CODA #16. The PeachTree GAN1 is an entirely different animal and I like that whole modded GAN1 system almost as much as the #16. I say this as someone who had Ric mod the LSA Voyager 350 GAN amplifier. He made it sound much better. However, it was not as good overall as my CODA #8 with my Thiel CS3.7 (both now sold). The GAN400 is the same internally as the Voyager (per Ric), though sounds stronger on the bass region. If the KRELL Duo were not in the back of my mind, I would have already sent the GAN400 for mods.

The CODA #16 is incredible. One reason I had comfort in buying the Magtech today is because I believe CODA made that amp for Sanders. Roger Sanders helped me figure out how to best setup the RAAL phones and speakers with my remaining gear. Great customer service.