very interesting.... $39 amp gets good review

[psonic]

I actually bought one...happened to be at my local Target store and saw the kit with case and speakers on clearance for $35, it also has an adaptor to run it off a portable CD player. You have to buy the adaptor to connect to a standard CD / DVD player. I can at least get some use out of it when we travel and needs tunes. At any rate, currently I only own Dynaudio Audience 60 towers, hardly the speaker to use on a low powered amp like this. But defiantly, I connected it to my Rotel CD player and Dane 60s. From what I read, digital amps are happy with low impedances. I played it for about 3 hours straight and here are my thoughts - this amplifier is more powerful than it looks! It easily drove the Danes to fairly loud levels without distortion at all, not bad considering it's an 86db 4ohm speaker. One caveat though, it was not able to muster bass out of this speaker. What it was able to do is give a purity of sound, no SS grain, separation, and clarity that easily surpasses my Rotel separates (and my past SS amps) - quite a feat. I wonder how much better it will sound once run-in for a few hundred hours and on very sensitive speakers. They may, surprisingly sound like the reviewer described - scary.

Actually batteries can have a definate advantage in having no transformer noise. Secondly, he ran the amp on some very very sensitive speakers, as would be run by SET amps usually. Also if you noticed, the amps chipset is the same as what is in a $3000 Class T digital amp. This amp just puts a super-cheap case and parts around the chip, sparing the power supply also. It is very possible that it sounded remarkably well on the right speakers, considering what I heard on my dynes.

[Kaboom]

considering its a digital device i am inclined to think u might not get any advantage from wearing it in. Am i wrong?
so with this little wonder gadget on the market, should i even consider buying a 500$ Rotel RA01? will there by any performance difference between the two?

[psonic]

Yea it won't rock the house or match the bass output and it needs very very sensitive speaks to give any bass and sound full. You can alawys buy one and try, it's kinda like running a little single ended tube amp. Only way cheaper...

Oh yea, and I meant to put a (cough!) next to run-in! Hehe, really I have never had a new amplifier so I don't know about run-in...I question it also.

[niknik]

Nice :-D

I wanna try one! For the price it would a nice experiment!

Anybody knows where I can get it other than Target Online? -they do not ship Internationally....

[psonic]

Where are you? Try this for starters...I have seen them all over the web....

http://www.google.com/froogle?q=t-amp

[niknik]

thanks psonic!

I couldn't find a dealer that shipped internationally -but the 4th one in your link does -so I'm in for trying this little creature out ;-) It's gonna run my Kef 104.2's -they are 4ohms 92dB -

I look forward to try this little thing out, quite funny I must say! :-)

Did you do any mods to it?

As Jeff Day writes:

"What if with a few hot-rod tricks, one could improve upon the T-amp's minor -- and I emphasize minor -- shortcomings? What if one could gain a little more bass slam? What would it sound like if one ditched the cheap volume pot, added a beefier power supply, some good RCA inputs and decent binding posts? Would it give it a deeper soundstage and the bloom of valves? What if you added a visually stunning wooden Cain & Cain chassis? Oh Terry, have I got an idea! Stay tuned........."

Interesting :-D

[psonic]

I have not done any mods to it but I'm sure the sky is the limit, so to speak. I just want to hear it on sensitive speakers for starters! The T-Amp instructions claims it puts out more power when using the AC power adaptor, so adding a nice beefy 13V transformer may be a good start. And I'm sure the volume control on it is only worth about $.50! The list goes on and on! Actually, Teac makes a 3 channel amp based on this chipset that goes for $100-200 online. The main difference being build quality and built-in power supply.

http://www.tommytube.com/Teac-tripat...the_teac_a.htm