Sonic Impact T-Amp giant killer?

Looks like the TriPath control module is getting some respect. Give it a real power supply and output devices and you got a CarverPro ZR1600 amp which does the same things at 600 watts per channel, for about a grand.

My take is that the Sonic Impact "gets it" about digital amps...good performance at very low cost. On the other hand the Clari T looks like a very neat packaging job, but priced with the (somewhat gullible) audiophile market in mind. I suspect that both will find success in their respective markets.

Yeap your right Eldartford.The Carver does do some things like the Clari T amp.But and this is a big BUT, the Clari T doesn't have the noise floor of the Carver ZR1600 or the unneeded garbage in the signal path. Two of the owners of this little gullible amplifier own the Carvers as well.Soon there will be three since I also owned the Carver ZR1600.Guess which one gets full duty in their systems! Uh...It ain't the Carver!

Gmood1...My 3 CarverPro ZR1600 amps do not have any significant "noise floor", but I did have to "diddle" more than usual to achieve this silence. Consider the following suggestions:

1..Use the ground lift switches as required.
2..Experiment with which AC power line you use, particularly with respect to what the source components are plugged in to.
3..Adjust the input sensitivity jumpers to as low a gain as your preamp will accomodate. I use 2.45vrms for my subwoofers, and 1.23vrms for the low efficiency MG1.6. (The factory setting is 0.775vrms, and there is also a 0.316 setting).
4..Balanced or unbalanced (20 foot) interconnects make no difference (at least in my setup).
5..If you think that the input processing circuitry (garbage) is a problem, and the built in bypass switches don't satisfy you, this stuff is easy to hard bypass with a wire.

I assume that you are not talking about the noisy cooling fan. Remote location of the amp is the only perfect fix for that, although there is a low noise fan mod.

The cost topic has come up before here. Mr Rossi states that his part cost is over $100 before his labor. Also there is no need for a pre-amp for the Clari-T whereas 6moons' best set up with the Sonic Impact was with a pre-amp.

both can be used as a one-input stand alone amp or with a preamp (the Clari T can be configured/constructed either way, whereas with the SI you just crank the volume control to maximum). myself i always prefer a high quality preamp for input switching and phono stages, and i suspect that the Clari T will sound it's best with a high-quality pre as well--not to diminish what i'm sure is great sound through a much higher quality volume pot in it's one input version. if you only have one source, then that certainly does change the comparative equation, and not in a small way.

in the process of constructing a much better quality power supply for the SI--a velleman K7203 highly regulated 3 amp PS kit.