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

[psonic]

This little $39 digital amp is said to sound like expensive low powered tube amps...

http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/sonicimpact/t.html

I may have to try one at that price

[Geoffcin]

This little $39 digital amp is said to sound like expensive low powered tube amps...

http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/sonicimpact/t.html

I may have to try one at that price

I especially like the pic of the little amp powering the enourmous Avantguard Duos.

Oh, the reviewer says the're $20 at Target Online.

[Kaboom]

exactly as the guy writing the article predicted, i have real problems digesting that. dude if that thing is really that good why isnt it everywhere by now? he's talking of 40 buck amp that can rival Kbuck amps? i mean, this would be completely revolutionary. Heck perhaps it is a revolution and i'm missing out on it. for 40 bucks it definately makes me think twice of my project of buying a decent Hi-Fi system...
I just have real trouble believing that this thing can sound anywhere CLOSE to megabux systems... Peolple spend upwards of 3k on amps for a reason.
i dont know. perhaps it IS revolutionary, but batt-driven is already enough to put me off it...

[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....

[Feanor]

This little $39 digital amp is said to sound like expensive low powered tube amps...
I may have to try one at that price

I am loving it though. And it does put out 120 watts vs. 15.

[vr6ofpain]

FEATURES • Class-T architecture • Single Supply Operation • “Audiophile” Quality Sound 0.04% THD+N @ 9W, 4. 0.18% IHF-IM @ 1W, 4. 11W @ 4., 0.1% THD+N 6W @ 8., 0.1% THD+N • High Power 15W @ 4., 10% THD+N 10W @ 8., 10% THD+N • High Efficiency 81% @ 15W, 4. 88% @ 10W, 8. • Dynamic Range = 102 dB • Mute and Sleep inputs • Turn-on & turn-off pop suppression • Over-current protection • Over-temperature protection

[vr6ofpain]

why not just pick up the t-amp there too!

http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showd...number=300-952