The Best Amp for the Price of Dirt

Just in case your interested, I mention the A-500's are operating as new, trouble free. They have risen in price and who knows if the quality is the same but mine continue to be "The Best (cheap mono) Amps for the price of dirt". Of course there are many other receiver-type products that claim to rival the A-500's and that maybe. But for now, with exception of the big buck entree mono blocks these are an outstanding bargins for someone needing power within a budget. They can drive almost any speaker on the planet w/o stress(mono-block configuration).

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As previously discussed, I use two "cheap as dirt" A500s in a monoblock configuration for my desktop, and a third in another office.

I use them for cable TV, CDs, DVDs, and all PC based applications including music.

In about 2 years, I have used them almost every day, and rarely turned them off even through several storms and power outages.

Recently, I wondered if the skeptics might be right as the left channel amp seemed to die, with low volume and heavy distortion in my left speaker.

Further examination, however revealed it was only a loose connection from moving my rolling rack.

So my "cheap as dirt" amps are going strong and better than ever.

I apologize to those of you who sell tweaky overpriced amps for a living while insisting that you always "get what you pay for".

Cheers,

According to Jim Smith's new book "Get Better Sound", identical amps with gain controls are preferred for "vertical bi-amping". I believe these amps will be able to be bi-amped in the manner Jim depicts, another plus.

The tube amps in the "Big Rig" are in for a refirb. The A-500's never sounded so delicate ... Thank you to all ... You can not appreciate how delicate the sound is following 500 hrs of break-in. Thanks ...