Monoprice Stereo Hybrid Tube Amplifier 2019 Edition, 25 Watt With Bluetooth, Wired RCA, Optical, Coaxial, and USB Connections, and Subwoofer Out

I've owned this amp for a while now and it has more than shined for I use it for. It's not going to shake the walls but it has enough juice to fill a space with clean absolute sound. Add a DAC and be impressed.

I had mine for a few years now. I just got a spdif for my motherboard to connect to the unit and when I connected the coax didgital cable to the back of the unit for the 1st time the plug pushed it self in. I heard the crack sound of cheap plastic holding it to the body of the unit. The machine is great but this BS is unacceptable. Monoprice Great quality but cheaply made to break. 1 star for poor quality of the product

Awesome little amp. I connected it to a pair Dali floor standing speakers. It just sounds great. The bluetooth connectivity is very convenient.

Very versatile and economical amplifier. Granted, I bought it for the vintage style and compact design, but the performance and audio quality is impressive when I tested it using turntable, SACD player, etc., and some "better than average" speakers. My everyday use is the USB source with Klipsch bookshelves, and 8" subwoofer and the result is better than expected, even with the less than optimal source material. 5-stars.

Very versatile amp with nice useful options . Only thing I would improve is amount of power . If you have a file , song , video ... with low recorded volume it could be too low to enjoy specially if in louder environment . Also has a headphone jack but the sound for headphones is not the greatest . I'm giving it 4 stars because of what you get for the price .

I tried this amp on a friend's audio amp. The optical input worked well. But I could not use the attached FM tuner, because it's audio is not in CD/DVD format. The phono input is much to loud for auxiliary audio. Perhaps a switch could be installed to bypass the phono section when one does not have a preamplified phono. One could also switch off the RIAA equilizer, making the phono input a microphone input. Maybe an adapter could be made for the usb port so that it could receive auxilliary audio.

Nice compact unit, powers good size speakers to feed iPhone Tunes. Would buy this again in a heartbeat.

For the price the Monoprice 25 watt stereo hybrid tube amplifier is well worth it. It is visually stunning. neon like blue lights illuminate its tubes, power switch, and VU meter readout glass. A high-tech retrofit vibe. I purchased it to connect a bass speaker and I couldn't be more pleased with the sound!

Looks good, functions OK as a headphone amp. DAC is very limited and sounds cheap. At the price, it?s still a bargain. Can hardly buy the tubes for that.

I am getting into tube amps but have been an audiophile for quite some time. I was looking for a good 2.1/2.0 setup for my new office and saw this amp was on sale so I jumped on it. I paired it with some B&W 601s2s and is being fed by my PC with a Soundblaster ZxR via SPDIF optical cable. The sound is very warm, too warm, for my tastes, actually. Which says a lot given the neutral/bright sound profile of the B&Ws. I have the treble set to 6 in order to unveil the upper frequencies. I could really use a parametric EQ to get the sound "right", but until then I plan on upgrading the tubes (~$75) and possibly the capacitors (someone on YT did that and said it was much improved). Overall I am happy with the amp, and if those upgrades yield improvements I'll be very happy. Two negatives are the L/R on the headphone jack are backwards. This is fixed by swapping your earphones around, however, most higher end headphones are directional and this would not be possible. Also, the VU meter hardly works at all, maybe a 1mm wiggle every now and then under moderate volume levels. To get it to move more, the amp has to be pushing out near the maximum levels where distortion starts to creep in. I'll update whenever I get those upgrades in place.

Overall I like this tube amp. It looks great and the sound quality is quite good, especially for the price. It has one annoying flaw -- it produces an audible pop when the source audio starts and stops...sounds like a noise gate of some kind. The pop is quiet, but still annoying...every time audio starts and stops from any source input.

Sounds great. Only issue is slight hum when using the phono input.

Great deal for the asking price, this warm fuzzy unit enhances and completes my collection of vintage components. It sounds really good coupled with a set of Monoprice towers. Would recommend and buy again.

Overall, I?m pleased with this product based on the price point. I?m using this in my medium sized living room for playing records and Bluetooth via iPhone. Playing through pioneer SP-BS22-LR speakers. Turntable is a Dual 510 With a Bellari VP549 phono amp. The built in phono amp In the mono price hybrid amp is not much to be desired (it?s terrible actually) so I?m using the Bellari phono amp and am pretty happy with this setup.

Purchased for streaming music and it does the job. It's nice to have tone controls for those of us find it necessary to adjust the sound to our liking. Have not tried the sub woofer. It's powerful enough for my taste. If you live to drive around in your auto and crave to rattle it apart with basssss from hippie hoppy noise look elsewhere, and please drive elsewhere as well.

Great tube amp with plenty of inputs. I use it as a headphone amplifier. It sounds good. Then I connected a Kenwood pre-amp and the Tube Amplifier came to life. Highly recommend this value priced product that provides the warm and robust sound of vintage stereo and connectivity for all the new gadgets.

I had bought one a couple years ago, all amber color. I guess I didn?t see thes had blue lights on the tubes. Pretty but I?d rather have the amber retro look.

The tube lights, Power halo, and VU meter are BRIGHT blue and the BT LED is amber. The photo shows amber lights which would look MUCH better. The blue looks cheap and toy like. Sound is fine for what it is. Runs a pair of Bose 201's well. VU meter is pretty lazy even at moderate listening volume in a small office setting. Was on sale for New Year so for the price it's fine.

IT work good and sounds good but it would be nice to have a longer distance for the Blue Tooth.

Not a reference amp, but it sounds pretty great even with cheap home theater speakers and a powered sub. The bad: A slight audible click whenever it doesn't detect a source, at least with TOSLINK. This can happen during silence mid-playback. No control over crossover point. Audio static with Netflix app? See pic captions: Dolby Digital isn't supported and must be de-selected in device settings: Sound settings > Device Properties > Additional Device Properties > Supported Formats