PTA2

Great little amp for playing music & using with Bluetooth microphone for quiz night!

Needed this to drive a couple of Tannoy monitors hooked up to my mixing desk after my trusty amp died a dignified death and what a replacement. How do they do this for the price, great little amp and plenty powerful.

Got this to replace my old unit so wanted a general purpose amp with loadsa inputs/sockets to connect all my units like tape decks (yes I am afraid I said tape decks).. turntable, CD player, Digital mixer...mp3 player etc etc. I wasn't disappointed. This unit has lots of RCA inputs, 3.5mm input, 1/4 jack, SD card player and an excellent BT connection. Don't know much about BT but this has not failed to connect on any unit I have tried pairing and also makes the connection within few secs. Also has an FM radio...Nothing wrong with that .... but I think I prefer to run my DAB through the amp via a 3.5 cable. There is a USB slow charge connector on the front of the unit for your phone ... if needed... if you are using your phone for extended periods to play music via the amp. The frequency response sounds pretty good to me.. maybe just a shade too much towards higher/ treble...but that is very subjective and it has fairly good bass/treble response along with a range of EQ presets on the remote. The selector switch system seems a bit quirky to me in that you select which auxiliary unit you want on the selector dial (say "Aux1") and then you need to cycle through the "Mode" button" to match up "Aux" on the display panel. But you soon get the hang of it. Only problem I had was that the "Aux" selector switch pulled off from the spindle when I first got it. Would push back on... but not grippy enough to turn the spindle.. so resorted to some surgery with pliers and superglue!!! Not high tech but it works (but sorry... a star off for that). Apart from that a very neat all purpose amp at a reasonable price if you have multiple devices to connect.

What a beautiful bit of kit works for me!

More false advertising from both Pyle and Amazon. Amazon cleverly positioning themselves as the "not responsible" party.The Pyle PTA2 does NOT have 40Wx2 of output power. At 1% Total harmonic Distortion is has 8Wx2. At 10%THD it has 10Wx2.Therefore the MAXIMUM output power for this amplifier is 10Wx2 (20W total PMPO-Peak Maximum Power Output).Not 40Wx2 (80W total PMPO). Note that maximum power means audio distorted by 10% and bordering unlistenable.The USABLE power of the Pyle PTA2 is 8Wx2 RMS (Root Mean Square), or 16W RMS total. At this power output everything should sound okay.This company and many others selling cheap tat, are notorious for overstating the power output of their products.In the EU any audio product MUST display the RMS power when advertised. Amazon yet again allowing foreign suppliers to flout EU consumer legislation.

Does exactly what it says. Good little amp.

Value for money