Trends audio ta-10.1 class-t amplifiers

A class-T amplifier is a switching Class D amplifier, something I was unaware of until discussing digital amplifiers with a friend a while ago. It is an implementation of class-D amplifiers, but uses proprietary techniques to control the pulse width modulation to produce what is claimed to be a better performance eg, lower noise, lower distortion, etc than other Class D amplifier designs. Among the publicly disclosed differences is real time control of the switching frequency depending on the input signal and amplfied output. One of the first to become famous designs was the TDA based amplifiers, at their low distortion low output they were predominantly first used in a 5.

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• Trends Ta-10.1 Mini Class-t Stereo Amplifier T-amp Tripath Ta2024 2x15w
• Trends TA-10.1 Mini Class-T Stereo Amplifier T-Amp Tripath TA2024 2x15W
• Ta-amplifier suselysh
• Trends Audio releases a dual power supply for BA-10 Bi-amp
• Trends TA-10.1 Class-T stereo amplifier wins 2007 Great Digital AMP Shootout at Stereomojo.com !
• Trends TA-10.2 SE ‘Class-T’ integrated amplifier review
• Trends Audio TA-10 Integrated Amplifiers
• Trends Audio BA-10 Bi-amp Audio System
• Best small AMP for £100?
• Trends Audio BA-10: real hi-fi, only smaller

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Trends Ta-10.1 Mini Class-t Stereo Amplifier T-amp Tripath Ta2024 2x15w

This review page is supported in part by the sponsor whose ad is displayed above. Every cultural or linguistic group has its own collection of words of wisdom. The Chinese just overwhelm themselves to the point of being excessive. One could easily tread the line if one wasn't careful with every move of the body and every turn of the mind. So here's one for the audiophiles who are so accustomed to walking a fine line all the time: "Happy are the poor if they are content.

Wretched are the rich if they are insatiable. Don't get me wrong, both these guys are happy. At least they both claim to have found their Holy Grail, although one would not blink to upgrade his if something holier came in sight. The real questions worth pondering are: Who is rich and who is poor you know I am not referring to monetary terms? And who has the golden ear? Or what is the true meaning of golden ear? In other words, golden ear for what? Bear with me for more case studies among friends.

I know a number of musicians. Let me single out a violinist conductor, a concert pianist and a piano duo. All these musicians are still active and in the prime of their careers teaching, performing and recording. None of these people own a 'decent' HiFi system by our standard, or by any standard for that matter.

Yet they can tell the smallest detail in tonal shadings and nuance in musical interpretation. My violinist conductor friend has such a busy schedule that the only time he listens to recordings other than in recording studios is while he's driving. The piano duo is a married couple emigrated from the Ukraine many years ago, bringing with them their prized collection of Russian LPs unknown to the western world.

I had the privilege of listening to a few on their very humble pick-up and receiver setup. Once we were comparing a number of recordings of Liszt's Sonata in B minor made by various pianists.

As guided by my hosts' insights into the interpretations, I began to hear what they could hear even on such a Lo-Fi system. That's what I call golden ears. The other pianist friend Gloria Saarinen has a proud discography of 20 CDs or so, from solo works, vocal accompanist to chamber music. Recently she came to my place to test-run her new recordings. I was amazed by how well she was able to tell the subtleties between different mixes. That's what I call a golden ear. Yet, at home, all she has is a simple, mass-market audio system of outdated technology.

I have better gear but she has better ears. How embarrassing. Again, please don't get me wrong. I have no intention to snub audiophiles.

I just couldn't stress enough the importance of music over equipment. We often say a piece of equipment is involving and another is not. But the real question is whether you are willing to let yourself get involved or not.

It is the music that involves, not the tight bass or the soundstage and definitely not the equipment. Let your ears be music-trained, not equipment-trained. The best way to do that is, like my music friends, through some humble equipment.

For too long, we've let the price tags of equipment lead us into an insatiable quest for the Holy Grail. After all, it's human nature that if you spend thousands and thousands of dollars, you expect to hear tighter bass, a bigger soundstage and more. But once you are able to listen 'poor' and take the price factor out of equation, you will be free from the audiophile syndrome. You'll be surprised that the lower the price, the easier and quicker the music resurfaces.

One such piece of equipment is the TA from Trends Audio. The so-called Class-T amplification has been around for a long time since and I am not the first one to discover its musical merit.

Guys, isn't that what high fidelity is all about? The Sonic Impact T-amp was originally designed for portability and therefore runs on eight AA batteries but ended up striking the chord with some of the more discerning ears who, as Jeff enthusiastically reported when the price tag was revealed, were flabbergasted by "its combination of light weight, small size and heavyweight performance. Officially launched on May 9, , Trends Audio of Hong Kong had the unfair advantage of studying the Super T-amp for more than 6 months and their TA obviously had the upper hand of improving on already proven formula.

Can you imagine how short the signal paths are? It weighs only 1. By the way, I should point out that the speaker binding posts are insulated with clear plastic for short-circuit protection - a must for such tiny chassis whereby a cramped rear panel is unavoidable. However, it's what's inside that really gets audiophile hearts aflutter once they see the air-core inductors and other goodies.

The air core inductors in this case play a significant role as a low pass filter LPF which is the critical component to filter those high frequency generated in the Pulse Width Modulated PWM switching from the output signals. Apparently, air cores perform better than the cheaper magnetic cores. Speaking of gain factor earlier, the TA remains faithful to the original Tripath design and keeps it at 12 times. The other more ambitious T-amp pushes for higher gain of up to While it seems to be louder than the TA, the distortion is obvious when you dial up the volume.

You probably notice some discussion about that on audio forum pages like audiocircle. Bias adjustment for a digital amp? Unscrew four screws and remove the top. There are two mini potentiometers for adjusting output bias and to obtain optimum sound while minimizing the power-on transients which are inherent in the Tripath chip or rather, most Class-D amps such as NuForce.

According to Ricky Leung, Trends Audio's chief designer, adjusting bias is important for Tripath amps. Too high a DC bias voltage will increase the background noise, reduce the actual signal-to-noise ratio and degrade the sound performance. And, it may also be harmful to speakers, reducing their life expectancy, especially for low impedance speakers.

The amps were factory-set prior to shipping but we know how rough a journey that could be. In addition to the review amp I received, I ordered some more as Christmas gifts for friends and saved some spares for myself to experiment with multi channel. The worst case was just above 8mV, still well within the Tripath chip tolerance. During my two months with four TAs, I checked the bias after approximately every 20 hours of play and found the fluctuation to be within 2.

That's very stable. For accuracy, it's good to run the amp for at least 5 minutes before you take the reading. You do not need the amp to be loaded connected to speakers to take the reading.

The trimmer close to the front panel controls the right channel. Trained to jump obstacles Now the most interesting part: on the PCB right next to the volume pot, there are eight pins and four jumpers for you to juggle around in case you want to bypass the volume control and turn the amp into a power amp.

Isn't that clever? For the DIYers, you'll also notice that on the PCB there are nearly exclusively through-hole components for you to modify to your heart's content. Well, except for the TA chip and four SMD diodes for preventing overshoot of the output signals. More on modifications later. The IEC main power receptacle allow you to choose your own power cable if you don't fancy the standard cable that comes with the bundle.

But I wonder how many people would bother. That's not bad by tube amp standards and adequately qualifies for 'audiophile' grade sound quality. Price wise, the TA would throw the rest of most any system out of balance, even for an average hobbyist.

Understandably, this is not your everyday kind of amp. My task therefore was to find out 1 how humble one could go with a well-matched setup without degrading the overall sonic quality and 2 , how extravagant but still within reason one could push the other way, particularly with introducing a preamp and what the associated sonic gains would be. The dB and CD jigsaw puzzle Judging from the amp's small output power and small power supply, the choice of loudspeakers seems limited.

But is that so? To get my bearings on the whole thing, I started with common sense, which I believe should be a pair of high-efficiency speakers.

Although I'd been warned by Jeff's article that these T-amps could be flabbergasting, I was still flabbergasted. By its effortless and relaxed layering and soundstage reproduction abilities.

By its purity and transparency of sound. Above all, by its priceless presentation of music. In fact, I don't care. For this kind of money, to get this kind of music reproduction, I feel contented and thankful straight from the bottom of my heart. I care not whatever audiophile sonic attributes you throw at me.

I just enjoy my music, thank you very much! On closer hearing, I found the Micron a little too mechanical, in other words too much hifi and not enough music. Permission to speak freely in HiFi dialect since that's my job here: The bass tended to roll off too early at the lowest octave, making the mid-low transition thin. I'd blame the speakers and not the amp because when I replaced the Micron with a pair of really LoFi Quest QTs, to my surprise musicality reigned once more.

What I heard was perhaps a little direct and blatant -- not enough suavity and grace -- but it didn't rob me of music enjoyment. Vocals were arguably a little harsh and spicy but pianos were strikingly forceful, especially when I split up the output signals from the headphone jack with a Y-adapter and fed one pair of headphone-to-RCA cables to the paired Quest QS8II powered subwoofers.

Trends TA-10.1 Mini Class-T Stereo Amplifier T-Amp Tripath TA2024 2x15W

An Oval Office-style Resolute desk, a top-of-the-line Xten Ergonomic Office Chair anthracite, please , a MacBook Air, a Francis Bacon for inspiration and, for sustenance, a rent-a-nanny to serve the noontime tunafish sandwich. Audioengine, which already offered powered loudspeakers that connect directly to a computer, recently added the N22 to its lineup of desktop and bookshelf speakers and wireless adapters. Matched with Audioengine's P4, a compact bookshelf speaker, it's a dynamic little music system that excels at near-field listening — up to 3 or 4 feet away — but lacks both the wattage and speaker size to peel the paint off the walls. For the office or den, though, it'll feel right at home. That's exactly what Audionengine co-founders Brady Bargenquast, a former project manager at Apple, and Dave Evans, a designer, had in mind with the N

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You hear that? Not necessarily the low quality end, mind. Just the low spend end. They feel the tremors emanating from below.

Trends TA-10.1 Class-T stereo amplifier wins 2007 Great Digital AMP Shootout at Stereomojo.com !

First things first: this small amp is a marvel. It certainly exploits all the virtues of the TA chipset making the original T-Amp sound dull, clouded and unrefined in comparison. Yes, take all the good things the T-Amp did and multiply by a factor 10x. Then take all the shortcomings of the original T-Amp light bass range, for example and multiply by 0. The performance with the piano, for example, is simply excellent, regardless of price. And audiophiles know how difficult can be reproducing an acoustic piano correctly.

Trends TA-10.2 SE ‘Class-T’ integrated amplifier review

This review page is supported in part by the sponsor whose ad is displayed above. Every cultural or linguistic group has its own collection of words of wisdom. The Chinese just overwhelm themselves to the point of being excessive. One could easily tread the line if one wasn't careful with every move of the body and every turn of the mind. So here's one for the audiophiles who are so accustomed to walking a fine line all the time: "Happy are the poor if they are content. Wretched are the rich if they are insatiable. Don't get me wrong, both these guys are happy. At least they both claim to have found their Holy Grail, although one would not blink to upgrade his if something holier came in sight.

Trends Audio TA-10 Integrated Amplifiers

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Hey all. I read up on the T-amp and it sounds like an enticing possibility for an audio only listening setup. It seems that Trends Audio produces the best modified T-amp for U. I decided I'd go with these sony bookshelf speakers. The pair goes for 90 dollars on amazon.

Best small AMP for £100?

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Trends Audio BA-10: real hi-fi, only smaller

Model: TA Product Weakness: Limited power output needs pretty sensitive speakers or small room! Product Strengths: Very clear sound, light weight, low power consumption, runs very cool, small dimensions. Room Size LxWxH : 15 ft x 15ft x?