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Apologies to Rod,

Posted by Poindexter (M) on August 12, 2007 at 14:47:32

In Reply to: Gainclone parts for low power , low noise , highest application amp posted by siepi_70@hotmail.com on August 12, 2007 at 12:08:59:

If you go over to DIYAudio forums, there's a gainclone (chip amp) forum, and those guys have tried everything.  I got some good advice over there.

One of the things I was told pretty universally was that all the chips sound essentially identical; the devil is in the details of implementation, and that the big chips can just operate at higher volts/amps, and so can give more power.  The little LM1875, which is what I have, can give about 20 watts into a normal speaker load, so it'll probably do you. None of them like low impedence loads by the way; keep your speaker load up at 8Ω.

Aloha,

Poinz

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