If you have been in my kitchen in the past quarter of a year you have probably seen the wires and electrical components spread out on my kitchen table. Last night I decided to finish it a it took about 4 more hours of very slow soldering to finish a very fantastic amp. It is sort of an old style DIY HiFi. It uses a new type of amplifier and is super clean sounding with very high efficiency meaning small size and a low amount of heat. It also means it has loads of tiny pins to solder that are way too close to each other. I am very pleased with it and plan on building a nice box so I can take it off the towel. Also, I plan on making a much more powerful amp or maybe even a multi channel one. This entry is a little short, I think I am too excited. I will have to wait another day and fill this out.
Update: So now that I have spent some time with the amp, in its still bare board form. I am still very pleased with the easy sound of the amp. I don’t have any speakers with an efficiency high enough to really explore high end hifi like a nice pair of La Scala II’s. I will probably just build some simple Voight Pipes in my spare time and use those for my office speakers. That would be a weird adventure.
This amp sounds great but for the intended purpose of powering my computer speakers it is too good. I hear all the compression artifacts spread over the internet. I went with a prebuilt amp of similar design I had. It isn’t as nice as mine and has a little smoother high end so the compression artifacts aren’t that bad. I am using some Polk Monitor 40 speakers and they have a pretty crisp high end so I might try some other speakers and see if my amp fits better with those speakers than the Monitor 40′s do with mine.
I don’t really like the Polk Monitor speakers. Mainly I don’t like what other people like about them.
Hi Elvis! Just thought I’d see what you had been up to on the internets and stumbled across this entry. I love these class D amps. I’m using a slightly modified Sonic Impact T-amp and am endlessly amused by how small it is.
Anyway, hope all is well!
The amp I built was a little too clean for internet audio but I love it when I use it. I am using a regular T-Amp connected to a Mackie mixer as the volume knob and mixer.