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10/02/2005 Entry: "Audiophiles impressed with 20 dollar amp."
Audiophiles impressed with 20 dollar amp.
When I was about ready to give up on the thing the noise finally stopped, and music appeared in it its place. Based on the fact that it did this every time I turned it on, it seems that the little T Amp needs a minute or so to warm up. I began by listening to the new Beck CD, Guero, which I spun as a CD from the laptop's drive rather than as ripped MP3s or AIFFs. Right off the bat the sound certainly didn't bear much resemblance to what I might have expected from a twenty dollar plastic multimedia amplifier which, moments earlier, had assaulted me repeatedly with white noise. Surprisingly open, fast, with great microdynamics and abundant detail was my first impression. The harshness, brittleness and generally grungy nastiness I might have expected from such a product were nowhere to be found.
See also:
Techy piece from 1998 about Class T amplification.
