New Walmart-priced goodies coming out of China, this time under the name Trends Hifi. The latest company to jump on the micro watt Tripath amp wagon, Trends' TA-10 is probably the most impressive price/build quality amp to use the famous 8 watt class-T chip. Here's straight from the Trends press release:

"This is a revolution technology among these several eras of the audio techniques...It totally broken the tale story that “the larger, the heavier, the more power consumption, the hotter, the best sound amplifier”. We shoot down the audiophile amplifier in the high sky!"

Tru dat. Check out the SonicFlare roundup of other Tripath amps that totally broken the tale story. Trends is also rocking their new UD-10 USB DAC. USB goes in, everything imaginable comes out. No price on the UD-10 yet, but expect it to be cheap, cheap, cheap!