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With this budget I always can’t figure out why one would want passive and not active setup…
I would expect Dedicated amp customers to be those who think mix and match would do better, willing to spend more and play around with cables etc. at this price point and compactness it seems actives are much better
I'm personally using this to power old SVS SBS-01 bookshelves. Nice, tight bass from 70hz onwards due to having no port, so this should be great to have perfect channel matching and no noisy volume pot (my old amp was an old TPA3116D2-based amp with a noisy potentiometer)
Thanks Amir.
It seems that little unit would produce hiss in the speakers though, so not sure about desktop use... (see the red lines climbing on the left on the Power vs Distortion graphs).
Seems like a pair of them would be good to use with a DSP and digital crossover, using a channel for woofer and a channel for tweeter. $200 for four channels of clean ~30wpc isn't bad at all.
Yes, this is a perfect solution with a minidsp If one wants to begin doing DIY with active speakers. The volume with display is a handy solution while fine tuning gain doing dsp DIY.
There is some competition from Aiyima tpa3255 A08 and A07 with more than twice the power.
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No way I had run them with SMSL DA-6. Too little power. You want a power headroom, even if it is probably sufficient for listening at a lower volume. But when you want to turn up the volume. Nop. ..And I know, listening distance, way you listen and so on but come on.In any case, I would not have that combination.
Feel free to use this calculator. Add sensitivity to the speaker and then tell which effect you have chosen and why. Weigh in that you want some headroom. http://www.mh-audio.nl/Calculators/REAP.html You can select music from this list. Or something else, but in that case tell us how you...
Wel, i use it's precestor (at least an older model with similar specs with the TPA3118 chip), the "SA-36A Pro" as mobile utility amp (testing and measuring speakers everywhere, sometimes also outside with high sensitive speakers in the garden) and it does a great job. It's very clean sounding untill the volume dial is +90 open. This looks much like an upgraded version of that old SA-36A Pro. Not fully high quality, but relative cheap and very cheap for what it delivers. The SA-36A Pro was half the price of this one altough...
It's widely accepted that 2dB is the minimum discernible volume difference, not sure if that rule of thumb applies to channel imbalance in a stereo application.