Whoa.. kinda steep but, truly worth it when you're happy! Why bother if it's a Panasonic or not, right?

BTW,
I am at this point of time running an SMPS rated at 12VDC 2.5A feeding my 'lil marvel...
As I earlier pasted from a website, I concur that SMPS is better than linear PSU!
The whole spectrum of sound are now have more 'body'.. it's truly amazing! I can't believe it myself, but at 1.00 am in the morning,
I can hear every little bits of music- the lows, highs, mids, even more.. I only fear now is that, I am NOT going to bed as planned.. it's already monday morning! After the Diana Krall CD I must hit the sack... i must

jazzy how many watt this thing produce....???? 10...??? you're playing it with the TDL....90dB

6W at 0.1% THD!
Yes! Playing using my TDL's RTL3

A puny 'lil thing driving a huge monster!

Just completed Diana Krall's Boulevard of Broken Dreams.
Although the SMPS drove the TA2024 well, it lost to linear PSU in terms of resolution..
Meaning, the differences between vocals, instruments etc is more distinct with linear PSU than SMPS..
I bet using toroids would push the fidelity further.. damn!

Take note I have not replace any other capacitor onboard other than the input caps.
Have to check out how the DIN55 batery will perform. Definitely not tonite! (morning rather!)
Heyy you're sleeping late!

This post has been edited by jazzy939: Aug 18 2008, 01:40 AM

bed???.....I'm going to now......i'm sticking a Cellophane Tape on my eye....

I bought it at 30 bucks from a friend, I do have two AVRs with me but one is too big (front panel plastic) and another one is fully plastic

This casing size just nice, i may put in my smps too, if i want

This post has been edited by ongbs: Aug 18 2008, 01:50 AM

For RM30 its 'cheap'.. but it is not kinda huge housing for a small little thing?
OH, you gonna house the PSU too right? I guess it should be okay..

On my side, after the listening session, I have to conclude that I love the T-Amp sounds with a linear PSU.
It has to be as good as my Bench PSU or better. I would NOT settle for any less..

Actually the housing that I have is even bigger! It's supposed to housea pre-amp and it's PSU, a power amp and it's PSU and mains RFI board.
That project was on hold.. looks like I will use it for the T-Amp.. a definite overkill!

30 consider OK lah since plastic one also >RM15 and I like the size, purposely looking for bigger casing but not too big
pre-amp?
DIY too? can explain more on it?

This post has been edited by ongbs: Aug 18 2008, 02:07 AM

i think this is what he ment by balance amp

not sure tho, 1 stereo board per speaker

Yup. This is what he meant!

I bought a (high quality) pre-amp kit a while back for another project.
I thought of using it with the T-Amp.
I won't use a simple pot for it
At least use a simple buffered pre-amp for the T-Amp...
omg.. too much 'amp'ing here..

bro,

may be you may give another medical report for this amp with/without the pre-amp you mentioned
Let's see which setup giving better SQ.

In a quest to find out how far the T-Amp can and will go, I will!
Bear in mind, I am using my reference pre-amp (a Yamaha) along this while.
It would be interesting to find out how far you can stretch the budget with electronic kits.
I am all for 'bang per buck' setups
Anyway, it won't be happening until the weekends.. need to rebuild the power supply for the kit pre-amp as I am using it for 'something' else..

edit..
I just remembered why I did not use the pre-amp on my other amp, it was insanely accurate and sensitive, revealing almost, if not all the 'flaws' from the source.. amplified everything, noise included!

So far, the Amp-1 or Patient 1 has clocked 11 hours, while Amp-2 or Patient 2 managed 14 hours.
At this juncture Amp-2 is the sweet performer due to the 10uF input caps. I will keep the current configuration for my bi-amping setup which I am planning this week, among other things like the above..


This post has been edited by jazzy939: Aug 18 2008, 09:44 AM

It would be fantastic if I could get my hands on these casings..




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yea i saw tht b4, its damn nice!!

eh btw your patient is clocking really fast and you and ongbs woke up at 6am!!?? but you guys slept at 3++ right? wow

got new from my supplier, 4x100w car amplifier, complete with housing and so on, aspecting rm1k or less...

can be bridge to 200wx2!!

t-amp base, ta2022

IF I can get that casing to be manufactured here, how much would you guys be willing to pay for it?
heyy.. don't be too observant lah.. I normally sleep around 2 and wide awake by 6.. has been routine for so many years..

car amp.. lets wait until we know whats the value of 'less'

power hungry guys may want to move to ta2022..

Yup, nice casing, how much ah?

Thanks for the info bro
Awaiting you test then

Hi jazzy939 what is mean by linear PSU?

Hi, can i know this T-Amp is more likely to audiophile ? Or more like car power sound?

Basically there are two types, linear and switched mode. Do a 'google', there's a wealth of information with regards to these two in terms of design and applications.

This is an extract from wikipedia:

"Linear power supply

An AC powered linear power supply usually uses a transformer to convert the voltage from the wall outlet (mains) to a different, usually a lower voltage. If it is used to produce DC, a rectifier is used. A capacitor is used to smooth the pulsating current from the rectifier."

In other words, it's the normal AC to DC converter. Is this clear enough for you?



This post has been edited by jazzy939: Aug 18 2008, 12:53 PM