Drakemoor
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I've been reading into all this hype recently about the original T-Amp and it's souped up derivatives using the Tripath TA2024 chip and the reviews gushing praise so with a little money ready to waste i went out and bought a chinese variant (still using the TA2024).
Now i always go into purchases like this with a decent amount of scepticism but even then i've ended up feeling a little underwhelmed with this product. The amp i've bought handles power output exactly as i was expecting, generally quite decent but struggles to fill a larger room, it has some good points in that it images well and generally sounds very clean without any hiss.
My main problem is that there is a significant early roll-off in the upper treble which leaves the whole sound incredibly dull (and leaving the 7khz area fairly exposed makes it sound pretty uneasy on the ear). From what i remember reading this amp should be paired with reserved sounding speakers to tame a slightly forward treble - that is far from what i'm hearing, it was also praised for detail, something which is surely present in the midrange but nowhere to be found above that range - this has been tried with a few sets of speakers, easy and hard to drive with little change.
As i say i wasn't expecting the hyperbole of a 'giant killer matching amps worth $1000' etc but this is doesn't touch a whole host of cheap second hand 1980's amps i've bought at car boot sales let alone anything expensive.
I'm willing to try a different model of TA2024 amplifier, just wanted to know if the reviews are worth taking a pinch (handful) of salt or whether maybe i've just got a bad one?
Now i always go into purchases like this with a decent amount of scepticism but even then i've ended up feeling a little underwhelmed with this product. The amp i've bought handles power output exactly as i was expecting, generally quite decent but struggles to fill a larger room, it has some good points in that it images well and generally sounds very clean without any hiss.
My main problem is that there is a significant early roll-off in the upper treble which leaves the whole sound incredibly dull (and leaving the 7khz area fairly exposed makes it sound pretty uneasy on the ear). From what i remember reading this amp should be paired with reserved sounding speakers to tame a slightly forward treble - that is far from what i'm hearing, it was also praised for detail, something which is surely present in the midrange but nowhere to be found above that range - this has been tried with a few sets of speakers, easy and hard to drive with little change.
As i say i wasn't expecting the hyperbole of a 'giant killer matching amps worth $1000' etc but this is doesn't touch a whole host of cheap second hand 1980's amps i've bought at car boot sales let alone anything expensive.
I'm willing to try a different model of TA2024 amplifier, just wanted to know if the reviews are worth taking a pinch (handful) of salt or whether maybe i've just got a bad one?