[Real Man of Genius]

Picked up some decent bookshelf speakers and I would like to hook them up to my Dell Dimension 5150 Desktop.
Soooo .... need an amp. Does not have to have a DAC but if if does, swell.
Not looking for anything great, just adequate.
Does anything exist that's decent for $100 or less?

Or is there another option?

 

[.Sup]

look on Pioneer's web site

for example
http://www.nextag.co.uk/Pioneer-A-10...E08BDA57A883CF

 

[Real Man of Genius]

Thanks, looks like Pioneer starts with the Elite @ about $200.

Your link looks like a UK only model?

 

[linuxworks]

used home stereo for home theater. people are upgrading (sigh) to get that true-hd junk and so you can get used 'good' receivers for a song. they will have decent (enough) internal dacs, preamps, digital volume controls and amp sections.

I'm positive you can find stuff in the $100 range used. yamaha, HK, onkyo, etc.

 

[.Sup]

here:
Trends Audio TA 10.1 - Class T integrated amplifier - [English]
its 120$, hopefully you can afford a bit more

 

[Ham Sandwich]

Tweak City Audio has a little class D amp called Gizmo. 25 wpc at 4 ohms, not sure what it does at 8 ohms.

The new crop of little class D amps are intriguing. A desktop audio friendly size. I have not yet heard one though.

 

[bludragon]

$100 is not very much for an amp.
I would look here:

Search results

 

[linuxworks]

those tripath thingies are cheap, put out enough clean power and need little space and little heatsinking. if I had a reason to, I've give them a try.

search for tripath - that should work.

 

[CodeToad]

Search Ebay for "Lepai", decent little tripath for cheap...and good Engrish too.

 

[Real Man of Genius]

Thanks, I think the Lepai should work nicely.

 

[genclaymore]

Qinpu Q1 is 39(59 after shipping) dollars on head-direct, it will drive 8ohms speakers. Also Q2 is 79(99 after shipping).

 

[tstarn06]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ham Sandwich /img/forum/go_quote.gif Tweak City Audio has a little class D amp called Gizmo. 25 wpc at 4 ohms, not sure what it does at 8 ohms. The new crop of little class D amps are intriguing. A desktop audio friendly size. I have not yet heard one though.

X2 on the Gizmo. It replace my cherished T-Amp ($29), and it's got plenty of juice, and also has a sub-out if you ever need it. I use it with two vintage KLH speakers and my Zune (via dock), and it's fantastic. Never hooked to my PC, but if you can still get one, do. Nice, sturdy box, small. Excellent speaker connections, etc.

 

[Real Man of Genius]

Quote:

Originally Posted by genclaymore /img/forum/go_quote.gif Qinpu Q1 is 39(59 after shipping) dollars on head-direct, it will drive 8ohms speakers. Also Q2 is 79(99 after shipping).

Me likey the looks of the Q2.
Mmmm tube.

 

[linuxworks]

I had no reason to try one of these.

and that is precisely why I just ordered one.

sigh.

'...wallet...'. yeah. right.

 

[CodeToad]

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