Arylic A50 Review (wireless amplifier)

[Helicopter]

Mcdonald's charges 30 bucks for 4 number 2's with bacon large.

I spent $170 on pizza and champagne for dinner tonight. No need to convince me. I am not the market for this even if it was priced according to its performance.

 

[Alice of Old Vincennes]

Pardon my terrible grammatical mistake, seems I must go back to school.

You misunderstood. You made no mistake. I utilized poetic licence for ironical



effect.

 

[_thelaughingman]

Mcdonald's charges 30 bucks for 4 number 2's with bacon large.

Its a bad implementation of a bargain product

 

[Helicopter]

@amirm I had seriously considered the Arylic A50 recently to pair a set of Klipsch speakers with my TV, after looking around I finally passed on Ayrlic because it didn't have the feature set I wanted. Feel justified from seeing this review that I did not waste my money on something I would've disliked and sounded horrible.

My recommendation is Loxjie A30 in this application.

 

[_thelaughingman]

You misunderstood. You made no mistake. I utilized poetic licence for ironical



effect.

Quite easy and unfortunate to misunderstand electronic communication.

 

[Alice of Old Vincennes]

I spent $170 on pizza and champagne for dinner tonight. No need to convince me. I am not the market for this even if it was priced according to its performance.

I hope the wine was your problem. My test for pizza is based on the Totino pizza standard. I would rather stick 1.39 Totino in the oven that eat any franchise crap.

 

[_thelaughingman]

My recommendationnis Loxjie A30 in this application.

I would love to get my hands on one for the use I have in mind but it's sold out nearly everywhere I've looked.

 

[Alice of Old Vincennes]

Quite easy and unfortunate to misunderstand electronic communication.

Sorry

 

[restorer-john]

As you see, THD+N is around 0.1% which is basically what I got. So our measurements are correct. Furthermore we see the watermark in the datasheet that the part is obsolete. At this point I decided to terminate the review as there are far, far better chip amps available in the same price range.

So @amirm, are you now drawing a line in the sand at ~0.14% THD+N at 5W and terminating the review for any amplifer going forward? I can see -60dB (0.1%) (the red section) as being a nice cutoff, where you can rule out further wasting of review time.

 

[Helicopter]

I hope the wine was your problem. My test for pizza is based on the Totino pizza standard. I would rather stick 1.39 Totino in the oven that eat any franchise crap.

Champagne was $70, pizza $55, tip $45. I figured I needed to cover a few hours of the waitress' time based on the way things looked when I picked them up.

 

[MZKM]

People seem to forget that the most common THD spec for amps is 1% (-40dB), which is what John Atkinson still uses to determine amp wattage. Next common is 0.1% (-60dB), which is about what this achieves. AVRs usually get a hair more brave and tout 0.08% (-62dB), of which I have no idea why they do this.

With the music sources and speakers typically used with this amp, I have no doubt the vast majority of customers of this product don’t hear any issues with respect to noise/distortion. I don’t like the speaker connection, but for <$200 to get AirPlay, Spotify Connect, Bluetooth, DLNA/UPNP, and use their app for (Amazon Music, Tidal, iHeartRadio, etc.), it seems like an awesome little package. Their app also seems to allow multi-device streaming. The 50W 4ohm rating however will mean home theater enthusiasts maybe shouldn’t consider it [EDIT: Looks more like 30W 4ohm actual performance].

On another note, they have a preamp with (besides other things) AirPlay and optical out, does anyone know of other ~$200 options? I see purchase help requests decently often where they want this (setup where they want to keep their amp/DAC and just add AirPlay support).

 

[Helicopter]

So @amirm, are you now drawing a line in the sand at ~0.14% THD+N at 5W and terminating the review for any amplifer going forward? I can see -60dB (0.1%) (the red section) as being a nice cutoff, where you can rule out further wasting of review time.

I think we need to consider price and alternatives, among other factors.

 

[restorer-john]

People seem to forget that the most common THD spec for amps is 1% (-40dB), which is what John Atkinson still uses to determine amp wattage. Next common is 0.1% (-60dB), which is about what this achieves.

I don't think anyone "forgets" that.

0.1% was achievable in 1949 by Harold Leak's range of amplifiers.

http://44bx.com/leak/PointOne2.html

We have moved along quite a bit from there.

 

[Doodski]

I don't think anyone "forgets" that.

0.1% was achievable in 1949 by Harold Leak's range of amplifiers.

http://44bx.com/leak/PointOne2.html

We have moved along quite a bit from there.

DrOOL. Exceptionally nice layout.

 

[Helicopter]

Let us put this in perspective. Yamaha R-S202 is $150. Loxjie A30 is $160 (if you can find it).

 

[MZKM]

Let us put this in perspective. Yamaha R-S202 is $150. Loxjie A30 is $160 (if you can find it).

As far as amps go, absolutely (those both also have Toslink and line-outs for subwoofers).
The Wi-Fi aspect is a decently big deal though. As an iPhone user, AirPlay support is very welcomed, I dislike connecting to Bluetooth (I always turn it off when not in use). This is also the cheapest product I know of where you can do multi-device streaming (I think their site says the app can connect up to 10 of these together).

 

[Dogen]

My recommendation is Loxjie A30 in this application.

Seems impossible to find the Loxjie these days. Is it discontinued?

 

[Helicopter]

Seems impossible to find the Loxjie these days. Is it discontinued?

I don't thinks so. @peterwen would know. Peter, why is it so hard to find the wonderful A30?

 

[Mike-48]

This company seems to be trying to benefit from Auralic's good name. For that reason alone, I would avoid them. (What others do is up to them, of course.)

 

[Alice of Old Vincennes]

So @amirm, are you now drawing a line in the sand at ~0.14% THD+N at 5W and terminating the review for any amplifer going forward? I can see -60dB (0.1%) (the red section) as being a nice cutoff, where you can rule out further wasting of review time.

Oh John, we show our age. I remember Dynaco power amp kit in 71. .5 THD. And that was good. Not sure if I reached Nirvana at that time.with the soldering iron. My ears were young.



iron.