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In Reply to: RE: Small and cheap integrated amps on ebay ... any good one ? posted by beppe61 on November 10, 2015 at 00:40:35
How does 3 dollars sound? Yes, you can spend more, 5 7 10 12 dollars for one. They are TDA7297 amps, and you can find lots of them on eBay. And they actually sound pretty good. Just add a 12v power supply (at least 1 amp works well) or you can even use a 12v SLA battery. 15 watts/channel, and they really sound better than they should for how ridiculously cheap they are. You may as well buy a bunch of them because they can be pretty poorly made, sometimes you need to re-solder the contacts. It seems like you couldn't even buy the parts to make it yourself for what they charge for them. But they are fun to play around with, sound good, and you can use them outside and not have to worry about them. Of course the biggest worry is that they are so tiny that they can easily get knocked over and lost...
--Matt
"When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot."
--Dalai Lama
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Hi and thanks for the reply.
Amazing little thing indeed.
However i would like to get a complete amp, with case and decent quality connectors.
I am always on the move and i cannot DIM properly.
I am also very very bad with the soldering iron.
But it is a very impressive board and looking at ebay i can see a huge number of interesting boards.
Maybe i should consider really assembling one myself ... some boards look very beautiful.
I will take some more time to study.
So many different chip.
Thanks again.
Kind regards,
bg
Hi-
You don't need to assemble the board, it comes already made, but some of them are really cheaply done, a friend of mine and I bought 4 of them, two worked perfectly, but two needed to have some connections resoldered to work. I also have another one that I paid 5 dollars for that works perfectly. You do have to attach a 12v power source to it, and attach the speaker wires which can be tricky because the connecting blocks are so tiny.
But it is fun to play with, and sounds pretty good.
You can add an enclosure to it if you want, you can spend as much or as little to it as you desire.
--Matt
"When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot."
--Dalai Lama
Hi and thanks again.
But the idea is to get a finished unit with case and good speaker connections for spades.
I had the T-amp some years ago and did not like the cheap plastic case.
It was also a little underpowered
Thanks again.
Kind regards,
bg
Edits: 11/13/15
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