Dayton Audio DTA-1 Portable Desktop Amplifier Review

[EdT586]

These amps can compare with traditional amps costing $5000+ !

[superawesomefilm]

You are awesome, really enjoy watching your videos, very professional and entertaining. Which is your favourite portable amp & why? I was about to order e7 but now slightly overloaded with information.

[DeckhandDavy]

@superawesomefilm My favorite amp is currently the Headphonia Headstage. It is of amazing quality, super slim and portable, and best of all, can handle ALL of my headphones with aplomb. I use my iStreamer DAC when paired to my Macbook. It's an unbeatable combo!

[svtm105]

@DeckhandDavy how exactly do you connect your iStreamer DAC to your Mac? i thought the iStreamer was only for iDevices

[L77kim77l]

Thanks, great video. Heard so lot about it, guess now I really will order them...

[notreallydaedalus]

Have you ever compared this with the Lepai amp?

[MelBreeeezy]

my speakers have a subwoofers and speakers negative and positive wires so how does that work? put both speakers and subwoofers wire together?

[henryasuega]

How long can it last when on batteries?

[dyarod]

Could you list the songs you've used? I like the last one, but can't figure out the artist :p

[khuhhhhhhhhh]

@dyarod last song is 100 % by Chromeo

First Song is Pastorale In C Minor by Jacques Loussier

[godspellailability]

Thanks for the nice video. Keep it coming. Also, nice recording instrument you have there.

[Cagliari1234]

dude you have a nice tatse in music ...u need t start listing the songs u use.

keep up the fantastic work!!!

[DeckhandDavy]

@Cagliari1234 Thank you! I'll be sure to include the tracks on all future work. :)

[gychang00]

thanks for a nice review. I want to use it to PC and ipod connection but need a selector switch. what other component is needed?, old integrated amp work with this as the selector switch?

[DeckhandDavy]

@gychang00 Thank you! yes, the limitation is the single 3.5mm jack. I would do exactly as you mentioned, which would be to feed all of your sources into the receiver, and use an rca to 3.5mm jack from the line out on the receiver..most receivers have this.

Thanks for watching!

[kartug01]

I'm looking for an amplifier with 4 (actually 8 individual) of those speaker wire input thingys. Cause my speakers have 2 drivers each.

I've searched around a bit and i just can't find one. Maybe you could point me in the right direction?

[DeckhandDavy]

@kartug01 Thanks for watching!

Actually, you will need to bi-wire each speaker into 1 pair of positive/negative connectors for the right and left channel on the amp. The amp does not need additional terminals. It can get tricky, so I suggest googling 'how to bi wire speakers'. There are plenty of great articles out there on how to do this. Good luck!

[grower64]

These really are a great little amps. I have two of them one on my computer and one in the shop. It is just fun to get so much sound out of such a small amp.

[weasel2htm]

Thumbs up for a good review, (and Daft Punk)

[joshuaaaronpeet]

Nice review and what kind of speakers are those they look nice

[DeckhandDavy]

@joshuaaaronpeet Thanks for watching. :)

The speakers are Mordaunt Short 902i's. Fantastic speakers for the money.

[TokyozzFinest]

glad to see you got rid of that disturbing logo in the intro :)

[DeckhandDavy]

@TokyozzFinest Yup, was time for a update!

[MatthevvDo]

damn that looks sexy