"Hunting" chance to blast my little amp kaw-kaw....wife and toy keep on complaining too loud, how to burn further huh? :'(
I am downstair and they are in inside the bed room, still want to complaint?    Pity me

And I am one of the 'old' night owl too!

At night the T-Amp can be really loud! In the day, the volume setting on my pre-amp would be between 9-10 o'clock position. At night, 8 o'clock is kinda loud! best part is even at 'low' volume at night, you don't lose the resolutions.. the whole spectrum of sound is still there n fact there is 'more'...

My T-Amp is also downstairs.. the consolation is, so far no complaints yet! 

Probably this is already stale news but here’s my own experience with the T-amp kit:

I helped my colleague (one of the guys I managed to poison) to solder an el-cheapo RM3.00 volume potentiometer to the T-amp using JP’s 40sen per metre multistrands wire and plugged it into and bypassing the built-in amp of a JVC UX-5000 midi compo in my office.

When the sound comes about after ridding off some initial hums, viola, it sang so well. I had never heard my JVC midi to sound so complete before – the clarity, details, tone of instruments, macro dynamics, decay, the emotion factor, PRaT and not forgetting the bass I am now hearing through the 3” paper-cone speakers are awesome. I was also able to notice the recording of a particular CD was made from aged master tape, yes, the T-amp is that transparent! And all these from a RM55 kit amp? Hard to believe but it’s definitely true. So much so, when we finally took out the T-amp from the JVC midi, it was rendered not listenable anymore – blur by comparison.

The day proceeded with both guys I poisoned calling /sms-ing me at my mobile even at wee hours of the night. Boy, both are badly poisoned and excited by the unbelievable sound they are getting from their T-amps.

A finding by my friend (the other guy poisoned by me) – he has been following comments made by forumers of this thread and he experimented with some input caps himself before finally settled for my extra pieces of made-in-Portugal Vishay 2.2uF 63V polypropylene caps. He noticed that the slight pop sound to loudspeakers after changing input caps are still there even with these caps and thought perhaps the offending small caps which came standard with the T-amp kit are more to discharge off the extra charge stored in the caps and so to take care of pop sound rather than to enhance the sound quality. He felt with Vishay 2.2uF, the highs are more apparent, sweeter-sounding and more ‘flesh’ to vocals. Hmmm, ……

As for my own T-amp, I shall be fixing a 24-steps 50K ohm discreet attenuator to it and commence work after office today after having double-confirmed the input/output soldering points to it. And at rate things are progressing, I reckon I will spend my entire weekend with my T-amp. 

haven't blast it >48 hours liau 

yea but he like loud music, pity him
aiya bro it consume so little electricity, just let it run with your ipodlor...both consume very little electricity
you are home!!! ahhaa its more like you nvr been away
hey there, K.C. friend?

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Added on September 10, 2008, 9:27 ambtw great new in the morning!!

goods for 3rd batch arrived!!! ongbs, balance amping?

Trip is excellent! Can't wait to be back though!

whoa.. 15! And all snapped up? Must be really poisonous this thread! With the low price you gave and excellent reviews, it is hard to say no/resist! In fact it's like 'sin' to say no... hahaha

Any chance of a 4th. batch? What about the opamps that you mentioned earlier? What are your plans?

yea but he like loud music, pity him
aiya bro it consume so little electricity, just let it run with your ipodlor...both consume very little electricity
you are home!!! ahhaa its more like you nvr been away
hey there, K.C. friend?

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Added on September 10, 2008, 9:27 ambtw great new in the morning!!

goods for 3rd batch arrived!!! ongbs, balance amping?

Good morning, all.

Xtorm, have all of your batch 3 stocks been snapped up, could spare me just one pc?

Yup, this ekool chap didnot even comment anything; wonder why he quoted me?

haha u goto let it sing to burn in lah...

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Added on September 10, 2008, 10:49 am
haha thanks to you guys for being so supportive!

yea i will try without input cap this weekend

Y.C.,
Nahh am not in SIN city.. hehe but merely 2 1/2 hours by flight to the east. 1 hour time difference I think you have a fair idea where

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yea i will try without input cap this weekend

Not really loud lah...maybe my ears "kong" or they have ultra sensitive ears 
My T-amp is On all the time bro, but "without" singing lah
Standby mode only 65mA, you can't even "feel" it  printed on the E.bill 

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Added on September 10, 2008, 11:14 am

I kept on "refleshing" 3 times early morning, try to figure out what he want to "write" 

ongbs, 65mA is like nothing eh? What about the power consumption of the SMPS?

Question: In the stock form, a polarised 1uF is connected in parallel with a NP 1uF(the yellow coloured one) right?
Why a polarised cap is used?  I'd this has got something to do with the DC biased input design of the T-Amp, no?

I hope ekool will be back.. I'm a curious why quoting the whole post without any comments.. lost for words? 

Aiya...can't be quite this time
bro, I totally "ter-ignored" that SPMS liau....hmm...should be around 5W I think 

But most of the T-amps designs didn't have this DC caps right...?

this is call The Lost World (minus "L")   

hahaha.. no worries! 5W? Really?
Hmmm my lenovo laptop PSU here (output 20V 3.25A) is stamped 65W..
Still I would consider 'negligible' eh?

Most maybe.. It is just the design on this TA2024 that is different I think.. 

The Lost World(minus the "L").. I like it!