I'm blown away by the Sonic Impact tripath amp.

Amandarae,

I have audtioned several of the above mentioned audiophool units; battery juice is something Entirely different, trust me. The First Watt is the most important, and when this thing is harnessed to compatible, read: >95db speaks, it gets pretty special. And Very, very different. Then you add battery powered, non-OS DAC, and different still. Your equation of Mo Money = Mo Betta is wrong here.

Dmason,

I am surprised! You are just speculating I suppose. All I am trying to say is that power supply , as all other amps, is the most important thing. As you audition the amps I mentioned, the more refined and sophisticated the power supply design is. I have an MLTL (95dB) Fostex based speaker. I have a concrete idea what it sounds in my system. I also have a 300B (8 watts) amp,where I can relate the synergy of both.

As to the first Watt, I agree. But what makes this first Watt? Current multiplied by the impedance squared. The current comes from the power supply, always. From my reading, PWM module is a valve that decreases or increases the modulation of the current pulse in a particular time domain. It does not amplify any signal.

Auditioning the amps will give you a glimpse of what you should be expecting as you plan to incorporate it to your system. It does not give you the entire picture at all. Until you own it, work on the balance, and have it for some time, then you can only be sure if the amp is right for you.

As to Mo Money = Mo Betta, I do not know about that. Only fools will say such a thing in a public forum since you are only asking for trouble. Forgive me, but I read and re-read my previous post. Nowhere did I made such an outrageous claim nor such "equation" as you put it.

39 bucks... man, that is cheap enough even ol slappy can get into it.
And not only can slappy get into it, slappy just ordered one. At this price, why the hell not?

IT BETTER BE GOOD! THAT WAS MY BEER MONEY FOR THIS AFTERNOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've played around with the Sonic Impact with just double AA batteries. It sounds better than the respected JVC RX-F10 digital to me.

Amandarae,

Sorry if I ruffled your feathers, I am just so over people making sweeping generalizations where $$ issues in terms of kwality, are supposed to be a key factor. In what? "Ultimate" enjoyment? I think the phrase "up the ladder," understandably brought on my spate, as in, "here we go again. Unfortunately you got swept up. Good to see some grounding, pardon the pun! You're on my side.

Having said that, Vinnie's little creation makes a joke out of ALOT of what is out there.