GaN-based Class D power amps

Fantastic review by Howard Milstein over at The Sound Advocate:

https://www.thesoundadvocate.com/2020/10/review-orchard-audio-starkrimson-amplifier/

Stuart Yaniger - AudioXpress

"Personally, I'm certainly leaning towards making amps such as BOSC the last ones I'll ever own."

and

"No matter what sort of music I played from acoustic jazz to Americana-folk to electronic progressive rock, whether my own minimally miked uncompressed recording or highly produced loud studio rock the amplifiers did exactly what they were supposed to, noiselessly, without stress or strain, and in a perfectly transparent way."

Before I go into any detail, let me say up front that these amps are something special. Detail and clarity galore with a transparency that grabs your attention and doesn’t let go. The amps run cool to the touch and are so small that they can be easily stashed away out of site in any system. In my opinion, they punch way above their price point and easily turn a background music system into something that cannot be easily ignored... or at least, that was my experience.

Bottom line: I thoroughly enjoyed my time with the BOSC amps and think they form an amazing combo with the PecanPi Streamer. Their strength for me is that they were able to take what was a background music system at best to something far, far better.  I have no doubt that they will shine best when matched with a high-quality pair of speakers.  If you like your music open, honest, highly engaging with life-like detail readily conveyed, I think these are absolutely worth a listen.