Very expensive🙂 and yellow ampboard is known. $12 is this unknown one:
??50W*2???? ???TA2024 PK TPA3116-??????
??50W*2???? ???TA2024 PK TPA3116-??????
😱 gotta keep her sweet as wanted 2 new toroid transformers couple of days ago, and she well aware of my desperate need for some oak boards for new OB's. She thinks its a cheap hobby.....
Hot dang! Feeding frenzy coming on. $23 for a boxed amp with connectors and knobs. Unheard of. Free shipping too. Like I don't have enough amps already. But wait, I don't have many boxed amps.
This is about same price as a Lepai amp and this box and amp are better.
I have a nit to pick with Breeze Audio amps are the unshielded inductors that flop around and break.
This is about same price as a Lepai amp and this box and amp are better.
I have a nit to pick with Breeze Audio amps are the unshielded inductors that flop around and break.
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Don't like enclosure. That was a draw for me with the "breeze" with yellow board. Wouldn't be keeping the board in it for long!
23.00? that is good. What's the opinion on the sound quality of this Breeze audio compared to the YJ blue board, in stock form?
Not experienced the breeze audio stuff myself, if its genuine of course, but I think Lukas Fikas has spoken well of them. And he has designed and manufactured some of the most perfect amps in the last few years!
Don't forget it's got a power on/off switch too.
There's a version with tone controls too!
Don't forget it's got a power on/off switch too.
Erm.... that's a "mute" switch, actually 🙂
If you go and plug in a "live" DC power, you'll have a nice light show (or, rather, spark show), regardless of the position that switch... 🙂
It irritated me so much that I rewired it to act as an actual "power switch", and solved "mute" by adding a diode and a resistor.... Much better now 🙂
Never could understand why the heck the designer made it a "mute" switch instead of "power".... To avoid turn-on pop, perhaps?
BTW, it's not a bad amp at all.
When I got it, I soon sold my old NAD amp, and the Breeze has been my main amp for almost a year now.
Supposedly the 2.1 version (with tone controls and "sub" output) isn't that good....
I have a Breeze 2.1. The stereo part worked fine but sub part did not have enough of an adjustable XO - basically fixed at 350Hz regardless of position of frequency knob. That would be fine if stereo channels were high passed at 350Hz but they were full range. As 2.0 probably sounds better than stock YJ blue.
Edit: sounds like 2.0 sounds good based on post above mine.
Edit: sounds like 2.0 sounds good based on post above mine.
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Has anyone found a good 2.1 amp? I know this keeps coming up but I haven’t yet seen any recommendations.
Genuine. That's the issue. "Original and Genuine" TPA3116 amps change parts like I change underwear
Jadrins link shows an amp which looks the same but front panel not claiming to be Breeze audio in letter type. I doubt the amps are different, so I would be doubtful of any manufacturers name on case.
I bought 2 of what the seller claimed "official" YJ blues, turned out to be HSDZ printed on pcb.
Just been looking again at yellow board in pic of the link I posted.... Circuit does look like mute, rather than power...mislabeled switch? Mislabelled manufacturer!
What is amusing is the right cap behind the volume know.... Is that a huge solder melt in front left corner?
Quality control? Not a great promo picture to post in a sale ad!!!!
What is amusing is the right cap behind the volume know.... Is that a huge solder melt in front left corner?
Quality control? Not a great promo picture to post in a sale ad!!!!
Regarding mislabeled controls on cheap Chinese amps: some (all?) of the Lepai TP2020 amps had the bass tone control knob labeled "boss".
In the big thread here for that amp, someone asked what the "boss" knob was for. Someone else replied that it controls the amount of Bruce Springsteen that comes through. 🙂
In the big thread here for that amp, someone asked what the "boss" knob was for. Someone else replied that it controls the amount of Bruce Springsteen that comes through. 🙂
The Breeze also has 7498 power amplifier written on it. Amp in a box for that money is splendid, even with the little curiosity features. It's also a tiny package, 105x90 if memory serves...
I feel they refer to the box/packaging with that 20x15 size. I have the board-only, ordered through UK eBay. It's 100 (plus component overhang) by about 84. It's titchy. 🙂
I know what it says, but it's still a "mute" switch. 🙂
I know, I have purchased almost a dozen of them over the past year or so...
And on the back where the speaker connectors are, it says "SPERKERS" 🙂
The hifi 2.0 amp is a good little amp right out of the box. It's also quick to take it apart and slide out the pcb for more mods 🙂 If you change out the cooling fin it also has a layout that allows for some easy modding. I've written a mini review of it some couple of hundred pages back ^^. Only problem that I see with it is the low quality capacitors used, so I wouldn't give more than 19-21V for long periods of time.