OK, I dropped the ball. I meant to take care of this weeks ago and now the install is a few days a way.
I need a small amp to bury behind the mirror with the LCD TV. The cavity is pretty big but not big enough for a big powered A/B switch or something like that. Maybe niles or someone makes a teensy one now?
My current thoughts are to savage a pair of powered computer speakers for the amp or take the TV apart and make my own external speaker setup. I'm just going to be driving a DT speaker in the ceiling. I could even wire it in series for a light load.

The Niles TVA50 is 8"x8"x2 3/8" and is a 50 watt per channel stereo amp/automatic switching system.

[Link: knollsystems.com] or [Link: knollsystems.com]

I've had good luck with the TVA-50 for similar 'light work'. About the only thing smaller is the Radio Shack hand held amplifed speaker for $15. (don't actully try useing the r shack piece, that was supposed to be a joke)

Boston Acoustics had a small amp at CEDIA that would fit in a double gang box....

yamaha makes a digital amp that goes into a 2 gang box

Two gang box sounds good, although the niles is a phone call away.


Edit: The TV50 certainly looks versatile but after pricing it out I decided to take a look at hacking the LCD's internal speakers. No problem at all. There is even a hole in the back case to route the speaker wires out of. And the internal speakers are 8 Ohm so it should have no problem driving the DT speaker to moderate volumes without blowing up the internal amplifier. This was a sharp Aquaos set. Thanks for the replies

This message was edited by Ted Wetzel on 11/16/04 12:40 ET.

How about a Russound A-Bus keypad at 8 watts/channel - single gang box.

Just to add to the soup here - Parasound makes a little amp that is half standard component width and 1U high...
[Link: parasound.com]

I looked at that but I the keypad would be hidden, so if it would some how turn itself off....

The new TVA50 really is a nice looking piece, if you haven't looked at it I would suggest doing so.