TOPPING TP21 Class T Digital Mini Amplifier with Headphone 25 WPC

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TOPPING TP21 Class T Digital Mini Amplifier with Headphone 25 WPC

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Pros & Cons

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Pros

Nifty little amp. Headphone amp is solid, though don't try to drive anything stronger than 250 ohms if you want loudness.

Very well made and a great value for undemanding listening. The quality for the money is simply incredible. The packaging is top quality.

The sound quality is great, really transparent and crystal clear. Vocals are crystal clear and centered. The no nonsense, brushed metal aesthetic of this device is just the thing.

Tp21 is a desktop amp, or small amp to power bookshelf speakers. Solid rca connectors and binding postinhabit the rear panel. Ran my polk audio monitor 40 series 2 speakers. I am using this to power 2 polkrc80i speaks in a room that's ~15x20.

The mid-range on it is a little airy, at times. My only gripe is a small one, i wish the power switch was on the front.

Cons

Wpc is only into 4ohms and at full power it has 10% thd. On the topping, i have to keep the knob at 75-100% for decent volume, and even then the sound gets hissy.

The instruction booklet that came with the topping claims that it is protected by a one year warranty, however no one wants to honor the warranty. My lepai lp-2020a+ gets much louder, and that's rated at 5w less per channel. A worthless number. Best g... Read More

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Quality

The build quality is superb and by the looks of the inside topping uses quality components

The sound quality is great really transparent and crystal clear amplification

Of course quality control kinks may have also been ironed out since the older reviews

Kind of makes me wonder about the quality but oh well stuff happens

Price

Of course my curiosity got the better of me and i decided to try this unit because the price was right and my existing audiosou... Read More

For the price i am very satisfied with this amplifier

Packaging/appearance

I think the sound of the pyle is maybe a little better but i like the simplicity of the tp21

2 another issue i had was out of the box left channel did not work

Competitiveness

I compared the sound of this amp to a qinpu a6000 mk2

Ive been using the amp for a few days and here are my impressionsprosattractive designwell builtfront 3

This is receiving a signal from a fiio e10 dac and is driving a pair of pioneer bs21s

Update 20120128 i succumbed to temptation and bought a tp20 mark ii also

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This product had a total of 73 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 10 2022.