For all intents and purposes,if you take the trouble to search and read the applicable links ( which was provided in some of the postings in this thread), you can draw your own conclusion whether it is 'audiophile' or not. My review in the earlier postings, included.
BTW, What is "car power sound"? Don't under estimate some of the current car audio systems as they are really in the audiophile league.

In the end of the day, its your money and your ears. A basic RM55 amp against a RM5K amp. You decide!
As you can see it is not only the cost factor that is involved here, its the SOUND QUALITY, hence the modding and upgrade activities.

This post has been edited by jazzy939: Aug 18 2008, 12:51 PM

Yup, Jazzy939 this clear enough.

i use it in my car, all i can say is wow.

i use to have a 2k amp runing the same speaker with the same electronic crossover on a head unit which cost 1.6k

now im runing the same speaker and electronic crossover, but 2 x T-amp and my samsung handphone as source, initially i though it was me, but my friend audited my car and he say wow too, much better then my last setup

there are too much good review in the net which require really little intro here, ppl with few k setup are blown away by this little thing. but i beleive i might be the 1st to use it in car, so there goes my review

xtorm,
I believe so.. ie you're the one to use the TA2024 in the car!
Who would believe a puny little amp would be capable of doing what big amps sometime fail to do
BTW, has Tripath gone out of business?

tripath technolgy inc have filled for bankrupt last year i think...can read here

Hmm...how come a company that produced such a nice products gone bankrupt huh?
TA2024 is not new, it has been produced since a few years back

This post has been edited by ongbs: Aug 18 2008, 07:23 PM

jazzy during operation between your 'two patient' you've change different capacitor to experiment the sq....can you tell me what factors that need to consider when changing caps???? value...type brand.....and different characteristic between each mF value???

What jazzy change is the input caps. For input caps generally there is few things that should be considered:

1) Its best to use non-polar caps, or better non electrolytic caps. It is best to use non polar caps here if its electrolytic, and best to use non electrolytic (film caps, like polypropylene, polyester, or its metallised variant) but there is some good electrolytic caps like non polar Rubycon Blackgate NX HQ that is suitable for circuit that carrying audio (like input caps)

2) The capacitance: Best to stick with stock value, but if you want more bass, try a higher capacitance. Like jazzy change to 10uF from stock 2uF, it improves bass response considerably

That is based on my experience and my knowledge. Perhaps a more veteran and hardcore modder like empire23, LittleGhost or Ijan can give more info regarding this

muchas gracias sanyor....maybe uncle jazzy wanto to add more here

This post has been edited by gabanyayaya: Aug 18 2008, 10:29 PM

t-amp is gonna be legend, there isn't gonna be any more t-amp in future

such a waste, they are attached to some big names and yet failed, so sad

www.tripath.com <-- no longer available

oh yakah,..

seriously too bad!

btw today awfully quiet all enjoying thier amp?

how abt others? like no respone...hahhaa

Quite because no photos upload from you

Well, you haven't t replace the 4 inductor coils yet right?

Well put najmods. And thats about it gabanyayaya
Actually by changing the values of the input caps, you're changing the 'filter network' either to become low pass filter, also called high cut/treble cut filter OR high pass filter. In this case its a low pass filter.
A low-pass filter is a filter that passes low-frequency signals but attenuates (reduces the amplitude of) signals with frequencies higher than the cutoff frequency.
Read here for more info: low pass filters

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Added on August 19, 2008, 8:09 amIt is sad and disheartening to know such a news.
Is this the end of Class D/Class T?
Conspiracy from other manufacturers?

Will other manufacturer able to license the technology for the manufacturing of such chips?

If not, we're dealing with a technology thats going to be obsolete.. Might as well grab as much chips as possible

Chip amps will never be and sound the same again


This post has been edited by jazzy939: Aug 19 2008, 08:09 AM

Ya lor.. why so quiet nowadys?
You guys have to excuse me as on weekdays I have no access to internet at night due to my location, however during office hours is not a problem

Anyway, the toroid inductor I checked with farnell, they costs about RM5+ EACH. We need four that close to half the price of the T-Amp itself!
You guys wanna buy ready made?
I'm going to wound it myself! No big deal.. The cost may be half of that. Just that I don't have the time right now until weekends.. Let me do it first k. Then if anyone else wants it, I'll make more..

Now waiting for another pair to arrive..

i think most of the time we 3 post nia

ongbs, u also put more piclah nolah i havent replace those inductor, foil 1 are nice thos...but bloody expensive

jazzy if you can do some air core low inductance and resistance unit, why not! they are easy to make...yes but no inductance metermah.

the other pair if no issue at all hopefully it arrive next monday!!

eh you planing to do full balance bi-amp setup ah!! ahahaha

after some thinking i might play with the balance thing...hmmm

after some reading about inductors(as usual)
the air core will be the 'ultimate upgrade'. I think it's gonna be 'huge'.. so i'll test out with the ferrite ring first if it is worthwhile.. as it is now.. I am satisfied and comfortable with what I heard.

now.. trying to either get an inductance meter, make or making an 'adaptor' to be used with my DMM..

full balance bi-amp.. sheesh.. don't tempt me!

Quite tempting, i been looking for the T-amp chip for long time. gonna hold my desire first, need to save up some money before getting crazy into DIYing again.

Jazzy939: inductance meter is not cheap toy, if u consider china brand is different issue. but why not consider getting a digital scope?

huh? measuring inductance need digital scope?
Then bro jazzy will sell us a "bump", not coils anymore

Well, according to the specs those coils are 10uH, not really know how's the value will affect SQ?
If the sound quality didn't improve much that is not worth changing as this board is quite small,
keep on changing components will make it look messy
Some how if air core maybe we need to connect the coils out from the board due to limited space!

This post has been edited by ongbs: Aug 19 2008, 11:00 AM

bro ah....not many ppl here got their t-amp kits on hand....that's why most of the time we are running "3 men show"
you faster sell more amp then here will look like "share market" liau

bro wui223,
the inductance meter would be a whole lot cheaper than the digital scope, yes?

the T-Amp is an almost ready product. Just plug(PSU/battery,input and speakers) and play..

Found this LC meter kit... interesting.. USD59.95 +12 shpg.

This post has been edited by jazzy939: Aug 19 2008, 02:47 PM


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