Hello All,

You may be familiar with this ultra-cheap (<$50) and yet extremely well reviewed small amplifier T-Amp (by Sonic Impact). It exists in two versions, both based on the Tripath TP2024 audio chip.

http://www.tnt-audio.com/ampli/t-amp_e.html
Sonic Impact website seems to be gone, so above you see an EN translation of an Italian website page, still the best I could find on T-Amp.

I own the first version, and it does sound great.

It looks exactly as in the picture in the above website, plastic case, plastic knob, very cheap look.I am using this in my parents house in the mountains, which is all wooden and stuff.

Do you happen to know if anyone is producing some nicer wooden case for it? I'll be happy to solder here and there if needed (nothing too complicated) in migrating from the original plastic cheapo case to the new one.

Maybe I am spoiled by Mark's empeg wooden docks, but even something simpler and not as nice would be great and way better than the original.

Yet, i can't seem to find anything on line. I do remember seeing few wooden cases on line, in the past?!

I seem to recall various companies coming out with alternative amps built on the same guts but with fancy cases.

I had one of those as well but ditched it because it had some ground loop issues with my computer. I purchased a USB sound card with built-in amp from a random Chinese vendor. Seemed like quality stuff but died in a year. Now I've got a pricier USB sound card from Teac, again with class D amps, and it's been doing great. It happily drives my 3-way tower speakers with 12" woofers.

Yes. Who know what happened of them.

Interestingly, TP2024 seems to still be at the core of a number of other inexpensive Amps, none of them, apparently, in nice wooden cases.

Related thread: http://empegbbs.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/360875/Re:_Gear_review:_Topping_TP32