LSA Voyager GAN Amplifier


Just got mine last week.  After 24 hours of play all I can say is that this is not your father's class D amplifier.  There is not one thing about its sound that reminds me of the class D gremlins that I do not like.  The low end filled in and now has deep impact, the midrange is the love child of a beautiful tube and clean hybrid amp - just gorgeous.  Highs are very clean and extended. Spatial cues are top notch. My system has had some damn good tube and solid state amps in it before and it has never sounded this good.  I am blown away with the quality of sound coming from class D amplification at this price point.

This 300 wpc amplifier is a real winner.....
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In another thread I recently read that Underwood offers no home trial/return policy.  If I'm remembering correctly it was tvad w.r.t. some power conditioning equipment. Can anyone confirm?
@ricevs  You missed Atmasphere's GaN monoblocks, which I believe are in beta testing, and were provisionally quoted at something like 5K the pair.  These could be the amps to give the Audions a run for their money.
The Voyager still holds the gold in time elapsed between initial announcement and eventual ship.  This last year there have definitely been some supply-side delays and shortages, which I seem to remember Atmas mentioning.
I'm not familiar with the Texas Instruments "Purepath" class D module, but it evidently isn't a GaNfet design, which seem to be producing the best sound these days.
The Orchard stereo amp is currently 2.5K, preorder, and shipping September/October (heard that before?).  But I think that pricemay eventually go up.

The Voyager is 3K and the Warp One currently 1K.

Someone needs to compare the Starkrimson Ultra with the Voyager, when the Ultra drops.
I don't see any images on-line yet of the innards of the Peachtree, but the back panel is organized completely differently from the Voyager.  Of course the modules and power supply may still be the same.
I'm confused.  Are we any clearer now as to how similar the insides of the Voyager and the Peachtree are?
@yyz I find it odd that that amount of hiss would be intrinsic to this unit.  I forget where you are with the bleed-through issue, but I have to say that a trip back to the manufacturer seems to be indicated.

A comparison with the Peachtree, which apparently shares a lot of the innards, would have been instructive.

Perhaps we should reflect for a moment on the length of time that the Voyager was in "development". It was announced and then its release was repeatedly pushed back over a considerable period of time.

This is pure speculation, but it makes you wonder if the original idea was for something proprietary and unique to LSA, and that for whatever reason (technology, supply, cost) that eventually didn’t work out, at which point the more "off-the-shelf" items found inside were substituted.

Has anyone seen a photo of the Peachtre GAN400 with the cover off?  The componentry is supposed to be quite similar to the Voyager, and I'd be really interested to compare pics of the insides of both, side by side.

@jerryg123 Thanks, much appreciated, but no real need. When the Voyager and the GAN400 first hit the market, there was some scuttlebutt that the componentry inside the two units was essentially the same, but housed in very different cases. While having the same reservations as most about ASF, the photos they provided of the inside of the Voyager were interesting, and I was just curious whether (a) the scuttlebutt was true, and (b) there was a better layout inside the Peachtree.

Very interesting what you say about the new Bel Canto. Just curious, did you ever consider a Benchmark?