Hi Jerry,Quote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
See here-
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HLLY-TAMP-90-9...#ht_9242wt_762
A great little amp,even better driven with a good pre.
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Hi Jerry,Quote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
See here-
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HLLY-TAMP-90-9...#ht_9242wt_762
A great little amp,even better driven with a good pre.
Hamish has one I sold to him,and he reckoned it was much better than the Bantam he had,which is a generally highly-regarded UK tuned tripath amp.
I would ask what the chances are of you still having the Wadia by the time Scalford Hall rolls round, but I don't think I'll hold my breath... ;)
Yep, it would be a great addition to our Scalford system, wouldn't it! :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by twelvebears
I'll try my best - but ye Gods, man, it's over 5 months away .... :eyebrows:
Hmmm ..... :scratch: .... I should borrow twelvebears' avatar - I can't decide what to do!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ali Tait
a) get a HLLY 90 amp
or
b) get another 2020 and bi-amp
I suspect I'll go for the latter and leave the HLLY 90 on my Want List, it seems a more natural progression. :) It really is sounding fab!
Have you tried a t-amp with the TA2020 chip, Ali?
Here's a thought Jerry :) Why not go for the HLLY & bi-amp, i'm sure that the bigger amp will be a lot happier doing bass/mid duties than a 20Watter :eyebrows:Quote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
Sorry to add to the confusion :lolsign:
Hmm, yeah, thanks for that, Mark! ;)
Thing is, I am entranced by the astonishing transparency of the TA2020 amp ... sometimes small amps do that better than larger amps.
Has anyone tried both TA2020 and TA2022-based amps?
I believe Hamish has,and was surprised by how much better the Hlly was.
I can't say that i have knowingly heard any class T amps, but from the design perspective they'll be much more linear or if you like "cleaner sounding" at lower volume levels. The reason for this is simple, like a class D amp it uses a switching output stage & reconstitutes the signal via a low pass filter to get rid as best as possible the fundamental switching frequency of the output stage.Quote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
Unlike class D, T amps use a much higher switching frequency (MHz range) at "low" volume levels where linearity is important, this results in slightly less efficiency (due to increased switching losses) but better sound :) Over a few Watts of output your 20W class T will revert to a lower switching frequency to increase efficiency but at the expense of linearity ;)
With class T amps in other words you'll likely get a better sound up to a higher volume level with a bigger amp that'll possibly go to 10W+ using the higher frequency switching before it needs to lower the switching frequency to 400KHz approximately.
With other amplifier types i might tend to agree with you, in this case i'm afraid i couldn't :eyebrows:
My apologies if you already knew this information :doh:
Thanks Mark - no, I didn't know that.
The thing is the TA2020 amp I have is way more transparent than the older TA2024 chip sound that I am familiar with. So IME not all T-amps are born equal!
I've not heard a 2022-based amp though.
... HAMISH !!! - where are you when someone needs you? :lol: