category 'mini-hifi'
You know an amp is going to be a real winner when the marketing promotes its Toshiba TA8254 over and over, but the unit actually contains the lower-spec STMicroelectronics TDA7377....
The board is laid out almost identically to the Lepai LP-2020A+, however if you look closely at the traces and component positioning/labels, you can see that it was re-laid-out and...
This one isn’t part of the Lepai, Lepy, Lvpin trifecta of branding awesomeness, but since it’s in the same box and claims to be “Class-T”, I figured it was worth...
While the board itself is green instead of red, the layout looks to be identical to the Lepai LP-2020A+. However, the components are definitely different. For example, the Lvpin uses...
Parts-Express claims this one is the “one true successor” to the Lepai LP-2020A+. They claim that they designed this amp around the Texas Instruments TPA3118 because the Tripath TA2020 has...
It doesn’t take long to realize that this amp is nowhere near as good as its namesake. To start off with, the product description includes such gems as “Class D...
There are many little amps that claim to be “Class-T” (a kitschy, propriety name for Tripath’s Class-D amp chips and accompanying feedback control circuitry) or “better”, come in the same...
This is the amp that started the “cheap and tiny but actually hi-fi” amp craze. Parts Express claims (through one very serious spokesdude, I might add) that they discontinued the...
