stoleowncar
New Member
Hi, bit of a lurker because I browse thrift stores for speakers and come here often, but now new member asking for some advice.
Anywho:
I want to gift my friend a cheap (~30$ budget pretty much) speaker amp and give him one of my older speakers that I got from the thrift store (decent speakers mind you) as part of a gift exchange that we've decided upon with another person or two. Last January, I got a Lepai LP-2020A+ amp for that price, and it's been working great even with its bundled PSU. Now I wanted to get the same thing for him, but come to find out that Lepai is gone. There's a company called Lepy selling 2020A amps, but 2020A (note missing + sign) chips are rebranded Yamaha ICs that aren't actually the hallmark Tripath chips that Lepai used to sell for so little money. They're just normal Class D amps. At least that's what I've read.
Does anyone here have the 2020A and the original 2020A+ to compare? Technically I could do it, but I don't want to open the gift, and I might choose to return it anyway...
And actually on that subject, is there even another option in this price range that's any better? I'm giving him a choice of mostly older 8 ohm speakers such as the Pinnacle AC400 or the Design Acoustics PS55. Definitely not forking over any of my DCM CX's.
Anywho:
I want to gift my friend a cheap (~30$ budget pretty much) speaker amp and give him one of my older speakers that I got from the thrift store (decent speakers mind you) as part of a gift exchange that we've decided upon with another person or two. Last January, I got a Lepai LP-2020A+ amp for that price, and it's been working great even with its bundled PSU. Now I wanted to get the same thing for him, but come to find out that Lepai is gone. There's a company called Lepy selling 2020A amps, but 2020A (note missing + sign) chips are rebranded Yamaha ICs that aren't actually the hallmark Tripath chips that Lepai used to sell for so little money. They're just normal Class D amps. At least that's what I've read.
Does anyone here have the 2020A and the original 2020A+ to compare? Technically I could do it, but I don't want to open the gift, and I might choose to return it anyway...
And actually on that subject, is there even another option in this price range that's any better? I'm giving him a choice of mostly older 8 ohm speakers such as the Pinnacle AC400 or the Design Acoustics PS55. Definitely not forking over any of my DCM CX's.
