Relatives of the Sonic Impact T-Amp

[VintageNut]

interesting products.


http://www.audiotrak.co.uk/music_production/dr_amp/dr_amp.shtml

http://diyparadise.com/charlize.html


http://www.tnt-audio.com/ampli/tripath_amps_e.html

 

[fredt300b]

Here's the 41Hz Audio Amp 6 in test mode (It's the almost invisible circuit board on the bottm shelf of the equipment rack. I just completed it today and it sounds amazingly good - quite a bit better, even in its stock mode, than the Sonic Impact. It's $39 plus $11 shipping from http://www.41hz.com/

 

[Strawman]

Looks like it would be fun to play with.

 

[fredt300b]

I completed the Amp 6 last night using a 15 volt, 50VA toroid transformer from Digikey, Zen coupling caps from Northcreek Music, and all the other parts from Parts Express. At first it sounded a bit bright and lacked dimensionality, but those characteristics have disappeared with some break in time. In fact, I was comparing it to a Parasound HCA-1000A Ss amp and a pair of Bottlehead Paramour 2A3 tube SET amps this morning and found the sound of the Amp 6 is somewhere in between the other two. I'm very happy with the sound of this little amp.

More pictures at http://fredt300b.smugmug.com/gallery/913706

 

[VintageNut]

That's a neat construction there Fred. What was your total cost to build it?

 

[doug s.]

I completed the Amp 6 last night using a 15 volt, 50VA toroid transformer from Digikey, Zen coupling caps from Northcreek Music, and all the other parts from Parts Express. At first it sounded a bit bright and lacked dimensionality, but those characteristics have disappeared with some break in time. In fact, I was comparing it to a Parasound HCA-1000A Ss amp and a pair of Bottlehead Paramour 2A3 tube SET amps this morning and found the sound of the Amp 6 is somewhere in between the other two. I'm very happy with the sound of this little amp.

More pictures at http://fredt300b.smugmug.com/gallery/913706

yes, that's really sweet. curious, tho, w/all the talk about aircore inductors - have ya thought about a change there?

doug s.

 

[fredt300b]

That's a neat construction there Fred. What was your total cost to build it?

Total cost is about $100. The amp kit and the toroidal transformer account for about half, the rest is in the case, bottom cover, RCA's, speaker connectors, IEC, switch, and upgrade coupling caps.

 

[fredt300b]

yes, that's really sweet. curious, tho, w/all the talk about aircore inductors - have ya thought about a change there?
doug s.

No, the board is so small that I prefer to make as few changes as possible after all the soldering is done.