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New TEAC power amp based on Hypex Ncore.
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restorer-john
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Nothing to get overly excited about, especially its rated specifications. Looks like a whole lot of unecessary front end circuitry and off the shelf Hypex modules in a nice case with meters. Thing is, it's another product where the extruded heatsink design is just for show- a pity, they could have strapped it on to the side panels and made a really bulletproof implementation.
Should sell like hot-cakes to a certain crowd.
Not much going on with twisted speaker cables or PSU primary feeds.
Should sell like hot-cakes to a certain crowd.
Not much going on with twisted speaker cables or PSU primary feeds.
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restorer-john
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I was waiting for someone to mention that. Clearly those Hypex modules generate their own power.
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Agree, gorgeous implementation, would like to see it reviewed.
MakeMineVinyl
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Egads, are they using the same wire colors for the speaker outputs and AC mains? Nice. And also some idiot mistakenly bolted the Ncore modules to the bottom of the chassis instead of to the heatsinks on the sides. 
Hey, it's got VU meters!!
JSmith
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They have released a few integrated's over the last 2/3 years;
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/teacs-hypex-amps.6202/
https://teac.jp/int/product/ax-505/feature
Would love to see this power amp measured as the VU meters really do it for me... although appears to be vaporware at this point, can't see anywhere to purchase.
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Those are expensive apparently - it's going to cost about $4000 here in Sweden.
MakeMineVinyl
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Perhaps the way-excessive input buffing stage justifies the cost?
These look like 2 Hypex NCore NC250MP mono modules. They chose these instead of the popular NC252MP for extra channel separation (even though a regular NC252MP has about 100 dB separation between channels through most of the band see here).
Though they say there is some special sauce there ("were tuned and designed specifically for TEAC"). Maybe they asked for different caps on the output stage beside the small transformer for some subjective preference?
Though they say there is some special sauce there ("were tuned and designed specifically for TEAC"). Maybe they asked for different caps on the output stage beside the small transformer for some subjective preference?
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How come the layout is beautiful? Speaker cables are untwisted running right on top of unshielded transformers. Line level signal is passed through flat cables over the black and white AC mains cables. Both are probably getting some "hummmm" interference.
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Even as somebody with zero electronics experience I notice the untwisted cables running to the speaker outputs. Every single Hypex implementation manual says to twist them. Apart from that its just standard MP(?) modules. I can guarantee you that Audiophonics amplifiers will measure better because they follow Hypex' instructions. If you want one with a nice design there are plenty of alternatives that are done properly.
weasels
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I'm going to buy a bunch and take myself off the electrical grid!
Hahahaha.
Yep, definitely NC250MPs in there. So nothing "premium" worth mentioning. The rest is useless buzzwords such as toroidal transformers, discrete components and blablabla. In order to make the class D sound warmer, probably.
No price, but I would guess this to be around 3K€. Nothing to rave about, if I happen to be right.
Nice casing and VU meters, tho.
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The 95W power consumption is gonna take care of that
Also the upper operating temperature limit is only 35°C, wich seems very low.
Nango
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See two toroids, nice, could be bigger.
What Hypex (or other class D module) amps would you vouch for?
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