Is the Tripath amp an inferior design? I read a German article

Posted by Tekunda (D) on November 4, 2001 at 09:14:18

During my research about a DYI project on an amp based on the Tripath evaluation board, I came across this German website:
http://www.thel-audioworld.de/module/digital/digital.htm
and since I am German (but live in Key Largo) I can explain what I read.
This company started to design an amp based on the Tripath board, but learnded very quickly, that Tripath used very cheap components for this boad, definetely not what you call high-end. Well, they do not have to, since it's only a evaluation board anyway. But the German company felt it necessary to design an amp with an upgraded Tripath board.
Well, they had to stop the project eventually, because of the incredible interference problems they were running into, although they stated, that their improvement was far superior than anything with the "regular" Tripath board.
Here is some of the technic babel: They had a 1 MHz signal of 1 volt inside their speaker cables and many more interference related problems all over the place etc., so they stopped the further development.
So my big question now: If the original Tripath board is nothing more than a very good evaluation board, but cannot called high-end and if they stopped their undertaking of a true Tripath based high-end design because of huge interference problems, what DID Bel Canto do to overcome this problems and develop a true high-end amp based on the Tripath board?
Is this huge price difference between a DYI Tripath amp and Bel Canto Evo200.2 justified in the end, because Bel Canto maybe ran into the same problems, but were able to overcome these, which of course would raise the cost of this amp a lot?

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Topic - Is the Tripath amp an inferior design? I read a German article - Tekunda 09:14:18 11/04/01 (15)

Re: Is the Tripath amp an inferior design? I read a German article - john curl 21:04:01 11/04/01 (1)

Re: Is the Tripath amp an inferior design? I read a German article - Ola 07:50:22 11/05/01 (0)

Just for the record... - C.B. 13:00:15 11/04/01 (11)

Why ridiculing other peoples designs? - Tekunda 15:55:08 11/04/01 (10)

That's no "design", that's just substituting parts - C.B. 19:50:11 11/04/01 (9)

Re: That's no "design", that's just substituting parts - Tekunda 20:08:28 11/04/01 (8)

Re: That's no "design", that's just substituting parts - C.B. 20:41:29 11/04/01 (7)

A final question - Tekunda 05:45:14 11/05/01 (6)

A good question... - C.B. 10:33:20 11/05/01 (5)

Re: A good question... - john curl 11:27:49 11/05/01 (4)

Re: A good question... - C.B. 12:08:27 11/05/01 (3)

So what did Bel Canto do to solve these CE certif. problems - Tekunda 13:26:12 11/05/01 (2)

Re: So what did Bel Canto do to solve these CE certif. problems - Ric Schultz 21:43:26 11/07/01 (0)

Re: So what did Bel Canto do to solve these CE certif. problems - C.B. 13:49:11 11/05/01 (0)

Is the Tripath amp an inferior design? No! - larss 12:25:01 11/04/01 (0)

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