Parrot Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 In the opening post Brennan already qualified the amp as being for people who think that 5 watts is enough. In other words, if someone is that misguided to begin with . . . Also, there are a lot of assumptions flying fast and furious here, that the modded amp is a killer amp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Robinson Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 If we didn't have contrarians, the world would spin off its axis and wobble wildly off into space. I looked up TriPath and they're really struggling: http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=conewsstory&refer=conews&tkr=TRPH:US&sid=aYNQ0JXu4VqE Seems they have Krispy Kreme syndrome, or forgot how to spell "GAAP". Hope they stay in business, or sell the technology to real semiconductor manufacturer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOSValves Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 ---------------- On 1/5/2005 3:06:08 PM DeanG wrote: Everything strikes you as silly. You forgot to mention that it doesn't have at least 20 watts. ---------------- Take a look at your amp and tell me who's silly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dzapper Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 That looks more like "trial lawyer syndrome" to me Chris. Rick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Dee Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 ---------------- On 1/5/2005 3:14:28 PM paulparrot wrote: Also, there are a lot of assumptions flying fast and furious here, that the modded amp is a killer amp. ---------------- Well, it looks heavy... and it's expensive.... doesn't that mean it will sound good? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deang Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Take a look at your amp and tell me who's silly Don't know, looks O.K. to me. This thread needed a picture of a real amp anyways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike stehr Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 "$400 of mods on a $29 amp strikes me as silly." The guy doesn't use the SI chipamp board, he has his own PCB board made. You can buy the Tri-path eval board for 100 bucks. (That may be what he's doing, and putting them in a case with a battery?) Yeah, the Clari-T amp or whatever is overpriced, IMO. I'm with TPG, a 30 dollar amp SI should be modded a cheap as one could get, with the availible parts on hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfogg Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 I wonder if the things like battery power and such even matter with a digital switching amp? After all the output is created from turning a transistor full power on/off very very quickly so perhaps power supply noise isn't as much an issue as with a more traditional amp? At that price I might pick one up to see what it is like. First up though I'm going to build one of the gainclone 'chip' amps to see what they are like. Shawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fini Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Hey, It'd be fun to make boxes for these guys! Finally, something I know how to do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike stehr Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Some folks that I can recall that made Gainclones, usually went with a AKSA quickset amp? Hugh Dean's amplifiers. I think mostly for more power, but the AKSA amp is kinda neat. I was thinking that today after reading the data on the 2024 TriPath chipamp. It's a HF switching amp with FET's in the chip. So by it's very nature it's a switcher, way out of audible bandwidth so they claim. There was something about using measuring gear with lower bandwidth to get proper measurements? (I didn't assimulate enough...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dzapper Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Parts Express has the SIs for 30 dollars in their new flyer. If others are backordered. Rick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike stehr Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Watch Ebay, the SI amps do come up for auction. I figured I get a SI amp quicker and a bit cheaper. I won it Friday, paid with PayPal on Saturday, and the seller said it was shipped on Monday. Should have it by the end of the week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deang Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 The Teac that Coda linked to was a three channel amp with 30wpc - and less than $100.00. What I don't understand is even when you take this technology all the way like PS Audio does -- and it still doesn't seem "to be all that". There's seven or eight of them on Audiogon right now -- one of the few amps that seems to be dumped out there as fast as they're bought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kev313 Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 C'mon Craig. Dean's amp looks like Donald Trump died and came back to life as an amplifier. ("It's gonna be the hugest, classiest amp out there.") Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBrennan Posted January 5, 2005 Author Share Posted January 5, 2005 Kev---Funny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike stehr Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 "What I don't understand is even when you take this technology all the way like PS Audio does -- and it still doesn't seem "to be all that". There's seven or eight of them on Audiogon right now -- one of the few amps that seems to be dumped out there as fast as they're bought." I figured the SI amp would be good fun factor for 30 bucks, and I gather that's what everyone else is thinking. That's maybe three good drinks in a Lounge? Common sense is to mod with budget in mind, like TPG said, 10 bucks worth of parts, what's piled up in the junk bins....etc... Hey if it sucks, I'll fill it full of bottlerockets and film it on the digi-cam, or perhap's maybe a sparkler bomb for maximum Sonic Impact! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deang Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 No, I don't think it will suck. In fact, if you don't turn it up much it's probably pretty smooth. I keep thinking about them for triamping. You, know -- something with some balls for the bottom, and then a handful of these for the squawkers and tweeters. Ya see, with something like a Beringer and a bunch of these you can experiment on the cheap. It's pretty tempting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike stehr Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 You got me pondering now.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwinr Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 Somehow, I don't think PWK had the SI in mind when he was designing the Heritage series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Robinson Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 They're selling a slightly different version (or rev) of the SI on SJ Deals for about $21. Now that's REALLY cheap. http://www.sjgreatdeals.com/sit5066.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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