I read good things about Class D chip amps like Tripath and TPA, so I eventually decided to buy a 2 x 100 WPC TPA 3116D2 in 2018. Unfortunately the amp has loose heatsink (it's very cheap anyway), which hasn't been re-glued until recently.
Indeed, the amp is very cheap.
In any case, the...
Ok, finally getting back to this after a year...between health, economy, covid blah...anyway. Did some research to ID way to go essentially looking for an inexpensive ($300-500 max say) small footprint amp for a home office/Bedroom desktop app running worst case Spendor S3/5s from a PC thru USB...