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Topic: Smart TA 242 Amp- how many watts?
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Oscar Neundorfer
Master Film Handler
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Posts: 275
From: Senoia, GA
Registered: May 2000
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posted 05-16-2010 09:01 PM
Louis, I am not sure which amp you are talking about, but it is definitely not the TA242. It was and is an excellent amplifier, although not very high powered. But for its day, it was quite good. Whatever you measured that had such distortion was either a different amp, or you had a defective one.
The basic design was the Hafler, but the power supply was far and away better. It was even stable into 2 Ohms, although you would blow the speaker fuse if you pushed it too hard. I have tested it at 2 Ohms with an oversized fuse, and it worked perfectly fine.
There was the original TA240 which had a potted amplifier module of British origin which was a piece of junk. Later we changed the TA240 to the Hafler module. We should have changed the model number at the time but did not. Later there were some slight improvements (don't remember the details) and it became the TA242.
We sold thousands of these amps, and I daresay there are still plenty in service. The most common problem was the Molex connectors which gave some trouble with poor connections.
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