5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute steal!

c.l. · 28 January 2017

(function() { P.when('cr-A', 'ready').execute(function(A) { if(typeof A.toggleExpanderAriaLabel === 'function') { A.toggleExpanderAriaLabel('review_text_read_more', 'Read more of this review', 'Read less of this review'); } }); })(); .review-text-read-more-expander:focus-visible { outline: 2px solid #2162a1; outline-offset: 2px; border-radius: 5px; } I have been into hi-fi for the last 30 years. I was recently asked by a friend about this amp as he wanted something cheap to go with an internet radio. He wanted it to power an old pair of mission speakers. I was not aware that this sort of product was available, and for the price I was very sceptical. However the reviews piqued my interest and at £18.53 delivered I decided to buy one and have a play. The seller said it would arrive a few weeks later between 21/1/17 and 31/1/17. It duly arrived on 21/1/17. It was very well packaged and when opened I was surprised by the build quality of the amp, much better than I expected. All the amp controls worked smoothly and even the spring clip cable connecters were good. The power supply unit seems also to be well made with the exception of the UK mains plug which can easily be changed. The specs for the amp stated 20 amps RMS but the amp says 25 watts! Also as well as the single stereo phono input there is a shared 3.5mm jack I put. I connected the amp to a pair of what dale diamond 9s with 43 strand cable and a QED Bluetooth puck into the phono input. Using a Google Nexus 7 and Spotify premium I sat down to listen. I started with the amp in direct mode, the tone controls out of circuit but was disappointed by the flat thin sound that I was greeted with. I switched the tone controls into circuit and continued to play. First up some reggae to test the bass. Notching the bass showed this little amp is not shy with deep bass, considering the size of the speakers very impressive. My wife swore I had the subwoofer turned on. I settled on bass to 1 oclock as this gave a good response over a wide range of musical genres without any booming. With the treble I also ended at 1 oclock. Over the few days I have been listening I am absolutely blown away by the sound quality occurred from such a small cheap unit. If it was packaged in a full sized case with a £200 price tag I would not be disappointed. I am now listening to Jessica Hoop, kismet acoustic, and this sounds as good as my Arcam solo, if not better, lovely open midrange. I was initially worried that with a cheap power supply that the noise floor would be intrusive but no, silence in the quiet passages. I cannot comment on reliability or longevity or the various other amps that are similar, mine is LP-V3S,not actually the model I ordered. All I can say is that this little amp is an absolute bargain, size isn't everything.

5.0 out of 5 stars Just the job - a good, basic pre-amp at a good price, with no Bluetooth latency

B. · 24 November 2024

It's like a phone that just makes phone calls: no bells and whistles (except you can to use its tone controls). Signal tweaks can done at source, and speaker quality is your choice. Sound quality is always subjective, but it seems good to me.I stream and play video on my PC, but my 40 year old amp died. I bought a Bluetooth amp: it's great for audio, but the audio latency made the sync difficult for video (VLC can be adjusted with some fiddling), but hopeless for streaming. That's going on ebay.This unit is wired, so no latency, and perfect video sync.The inputs and speaker output are standard, and transferred from my old amp with no problem.It has a great footprint - smaller than a takeaway carton, so it will fit anywhere.No problems with it so far, but even if it broke down once a year, I'd still get the same.

4.0 out of 5 stars Works as specified, though power cable is a bit short.

I. · 4 January 2025

No complaints, for its price it works great, the EQ knobs I would recommend just leaving out and changing the EQ in software, but I cant really fault the product for it at such a low price point.Hooked up to my speakers, sound is great, though getting the amp on my desk was a bit tricky, as the DC wall adapter provided had quite a short cable, it being only about 1 meter long, though I'm sure that that would be enough to suffice the needs of most people.Would recommend, at this price point, I feel like this is the best value for money you could get.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Little Simple Amplifier

R.S. · 30 December 2024

I bought this so that I could use a pair of old hi-fi speakers with my PC. (Just for info you cant connect hifi speakers to a PC without an amp of some description). Space is very limited on my desk and the amp needs to sit in a small (4 inch) gap between my screen and one of the speakers. This amplifier fitted perfectly and works wonderfully. The quality of sound is brilliant and the volume, treble and bass controls work well and provide more than adequate adjustable controls for my purposes. I am very happy with this purchase and would recommend to anyone with limited budget, space or both!!

5.0 out of 5 stars Impossible

Y. · 9 June 2020

I store a lot of music files on my desktop pc, 99.9% are flac files, I usually listen with headphones,expensive headphones at that. I also run an optical out from my desktop sound card ( Asus Xonar Essence STX) to my main hifi system, which cost in excess of £4,000.Sometimes when listening to music with headphones, or watching a movie I found the headphones could get uncomfortable after a while and also headphones are very 'isolating', thats to say if my wife was to say something to me I wouldn't hear her at all with headphones on.I decided to try this little amp with a pair of JBL Control One Speakers that I wasn't using on my home theatre system having replaced them with some QA3020i Loudspeakers.I can only really comment on my initial impressions here, I cant offer any opinion as to the longevity of this product, its durability , reliablity etc, however, I can comment on what I hear and I hear what I consider to be quite remakable, the sound is crystal clear, very impressive bass, plenty of volume. I could go into using all the buzz words that audio folk love to use but theres no point here.I sit here listening to music and I honestly find it impossible to believe I am listening to an amp and speakers with the combined price of less than £75, If this company can conjure up this level of magic for £25.00 then what they must be capable of achieving on a bigger budget is food for thought indeed.I see British Audio companies selling amplifiers for ridiculous amounts of money, theres no way in this world they can justify the price when companies like this can offer a quality product thats honest in what it can do and what it cant.My advice, next time you are looking at buying an integrated amplifer, just take time to think about it before you commit, for £25.00 give this a go first if all you need is an amp with a single input. Happy listening.