PyleHome Home Audio Power Amplifier System - 2X75W Mini Dual Channel Sound Stereo Receiver Box w/ LED - For Amplified Speakers, CD Player, Theater via 3.5mm RCA - For Studio, Home Use - Pyle PCA3

This the perfect little amplifier for my living room stereo. I really like it! Great value, very good volume control, Bluetooth kicks right in, clear sound quality, remote control, convenient features. I have a pair of Bose 201 Series III speakers and 75 watts per channel is just enough for them.It can possibly drive speakers ten times it's size. For a 45.00 dollar mini amp,it performs like a big amplifier.

I bought this amp as a sub-woofer amp and it does the job! My new Pioneer 919 blahbitty blah receiver has a PRE OUT SUBWOOFER (RCA style) output, and I happened to have a new-in-the-box 12" woofer from Radio Shack that I picked up years ago on clearance for 10 bucks. Add in a $40 sheet of plywood and my build time, and I've got a low cost, high quality sub-woofer.The Pioneer receiver does just about everything except run out and start my car (and I'm wondering if it'll do that!), so it's too dad-gum complicated. In contrast, this amp could hardly be simpler. It has two RCA style inputs (Left and Right), two speaker-wire outputs (Left and Right), Treble gain, Bass gain, Volume, and an On/Off switch.I saw on other reviews that people used the amp to power an old pair of speakers while playing their iPods. I felt that if the sub-woofer thing didn't work out, I could still do that as Plan 'B'. Fortunately, Plan 'A' is working. I have a nice Belkin 25 foot cable with RCA ends coming from the Pre Out Subwoofer out of the receiver and going into one of the channel inputs (Left) on this amp. Then I have a monster cable, bare-end wires coming out of the corresponding (Left) channel output going directly to the Radio Shack 12" woofer. No crossover or filtering! I'm not sure, but I'm guessing the receiver filters out the high freqs and passes only the lower freqs, 800 hz and below.Anyway, it sounds good, does what I want it to do, and even has nice blue LED indicators that light up when the bass pounds out the beat of a song, or explosions from a game. It's about the size of a thick paperback book, and if I needed too, I could easily unplug everything and take the amp out to my garage for duty playing my iPod.

I bought this unit for one purpose - to turn the sound from my HDTV around (the TV speakers naturally face backwards!) and hear it in true stereo. It works just fine for doing this. I was attracted to it for its compactness and simplicity, as well as its very affordable price. I don't need a tuner or multiple inputs nor do I need enormous volume in the small room I'm using it in. The sound quality is surprisingly good, although admittedly I'm not using the best available speakers. The dynamic range is fine and I was surprised at the bass quality. And when the scene is supposed to have no sound, there really is none - I don't hear humming or hissing, even with the sound turned up quite high. I really, really appreciate the unit's compactness given the crowded space in the cabinet I've placed it in.I have two minor complaints about this unit. One is the very meager amount of documentation about the unit provided in the manual and the other is the blue LED dB level display. The LEDs are just too bright! If the unit is facing in the same direction as the TV screen the blazing lights are distracting. Of course it is not a problem if there is something like an opaque door blocking the light. The unit has no remote but that is actually fine with me, given my constantly proliferating collection of remotes for all of my components.A basic, uncomplicated quality sound amplifier was what I was looking for, and it was what I got.

I have a couple of older Sony speakers I picked up from flea market, and, knowing nothing about home theater, etc., I just assumed I could get some speaker wire-to-RCA converters and it would be fine - turns out you need something like this, which I should have known, since I'm a musician, haha!Anyway this works fine - I'm an audiophile to a point but not an expert, so I couldn't tell you if it matches up with the specs, but I've used other Pyle products throughout life and I've never experienced a single issue. These speakers that I have are mediocre so I can bust it out in my office real nice, but I would say your experience with higher quality speakers would almost surely be way better hooked up to this thing. I ran it for about 30 minutes straight on the highest volume I could use with these speakers and I can tell that if you hooked up higher quality speakers to this, you could crank it up real nice. After 30 minutes it was mildly warm, but that's 100% expected if you ask me - you're dealing with a lot of power here.I've seen some reviews saying that the tabs fall off - they are simple spring mechanisms, and in my experience, yes, I could see why people are saying that, because a lot of them are nice and tight in other products, but these are very sensitive and loose. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that, it's just unusual. Be gentle when opening the tabs, and you'll do just fine. In fact, those reviews helped me watch out for that very thing.I've not purchased anything like this before, so I'm sure there are better options (certainly the newer models probably do better), but this works great for what I needed. Also, the bluetooth, SD, and USB work just fine, but you can only control them with the remote so do not lose that. I believe you could hook this up to other audio components like an EQ bank or something if you wanted, but again I'm just powering a little record player thing I got for the holidays one time, and I wanted to be able to play some records.Finally, it feels very well made. The exterior is metal, and the knobs are very responsive. The LED lights make me feel cool because they respond to the music. Oh, and this thing is definitely for stereo, not surround sound, by the way.Bottom line, if you're a hardcore audiophile, this thing wasn't made for that. You have to spend a lot of money if you want extreme quality and perfect performance. If you're just a regular Joe and want to make some loud stereo music happen and you have halfway decent speakers, this is for you.