MillionSwords
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From what I read around on the forums the inventor of Tripath chip is a good engineer but a bad business man.
There was a rumour that the OEM companies who manufactured Tripath chips for Tripath are making them secretly and hence the growing number of Tripath based products on ebay. But not sure what is right.
To build a hi-fi system you need speakers an amp and a dedicated CD-P which are made for hi-fi use. You choose decent speakers based on your room size and an amp to power that and a decent CD-P for a source. And good speaker cables and interconnects to get the best of those components.
The T-amp is in fact a good product but it may not make its way as a part of the main hi-fi system for many as there are no other components to complement the T-amps at similar prices.
When you buy your favourite speakers you wouldn't want to compromise going with a cheap speaker cable or place it on those vibrating cabinets/tables or hang it to the walls.
Sometimes you end up buying a speaker cable which may cost more than the T-amp an interconnect would cost close to that. A speaker stand may cost few times the cost of a T-amp.
Being crazy for collecting those genuine CD's you wouldn't want to play them via a cheap DVD player.
Yes, in that case it may be tougher for those to welcome the shortfalls and accept an amp cheaper than their speaker cable and with a CD-P and speaker stands costing few times the price of the amp at the cost of sacrificing the build quality reliability and the convenience of multiple inputs and a remote of a well built budget integrated amp.
Unless there is a solution for all these shortfalls a T-amp will not make its way as a replacement in a proper hi-fi system. If these short falls are covered then the T-amp wouldn't be affordable as now.
There is no comparison between an integrated amp and a T-amp other than its a personal choice whether if you want to trade off those features like convenience/build quality/reliability/ multiple inputs/better performance for monetary benefit or wanted an integrated amp with out inviting those shortfalls.
Considering this Spam.
