Pyle-Pro PQA3100 19-Inch Rack Mount 3100-Watt Professional Power Amplifier

Recently rehabbed my old Cerwin Vega DX9 speakers using the Simply Speakers foam rubber surrounds for the 15" woofers that I bought via Amazon. These are home speakers, but they are fuse protected 4 ohm and rated for 400 watts each. Needed a separate amp to run them. Didn't care about fan noise as I needed an amp to crank rock music at concert volume in my living room. Also needed RCA jacks as I used my Yamaha A/V receiver as a pre-amp via the left/right front surround outs to the amp and then 12 gauge wire to these two (monster) speakers. The amp would not be used for home theater. It's only on when it needs to get LOUD listening to aggressive rock powering just the DX9's.I started looking at rack mount pro DJ/club equipment as I like things to last, and home gear just doesn't stand up to the abuse of the power demands of the volume levels that I like. This amp has rubber feet and is the size of home stereo equipment. The rack mount plates are removable.I did an Amazon search for "DJ amplifiers" and saw this Pyle 3100 and couldn't believe the price. I didn't know they were still around. My buddy in the '80's had Pyle car audio that sounded good and never blew up, so they've been making equipment for quite awhile.I'm a big fan of not paying too much and finding "diamonds in the rough" in good sounding cheap-skate stuff. I'm not an audio engineer, but I know the most important component of a solid state amp is the ring transformer and (after a little research) decided to take a chance and order this amp with the idea that if it was a piece of junk, would return it and pay more for a solid state amp from Crown (tube amp costing thousands being out of the question).Got everything hooked up and put Tool's Aenima in the 'ol Sony CD player. Wow! Those old DX9's never sounded so good! String bass growl like I've never heard before. Kick drum punching me in the face. Highs crisp and chiming with lots of space. Really aggressive, dynamic, and warm sounding. I'm sure using a decent receiver as a pre-amp helped. Beauty. Not returning.I've played a lot of music in the last month. Stuff that makes my buddy's system crumble at volume (like Sting's bass on Walking on the Moon from the Police Certifiable live CD) this thing handles no problem. He thinks it's the mighty DX9's making a cheap amp sound good, but it's the fifth, and best sounding, amp I've used to power these speakers. (These speakers blow home stereo amps!)Nit pick time. The power on LED was blinding the crap out of me at eye level sitting on the couch, so I had to cover it with a small piece of blue masking tape to dim it (it's supposed to be that bright for pro use in dark environments). The cooling fan sounds like.....a cooling fan. The amps runs cool to the touch on the outside of the case. Bueno. There's NO WAY this is a 3100 watt amp at a $120 price point. You already knew that.Good sounding amp for cheap. Get it.

I have run this in every configuration possible and the most it ever consumed was about 300W, which means the output is 240W or less based on 80% efficiency. However, I knew that it would be about 10% of the rated power going into the purchase which is why I only took 2 stars off.The good: The clipping indicator lights seem to be pretty accurate, the case is pretty solid, the volume knobs are easy to see in low lighting, speaker protect works well, and it has several output configurations.The bad: The amp only puts out 240W, the power indicator LED is completely obnoxious, the knobs are slightly off when both channels are at the same level, and for quiet moments (example: moment of prayer in a wedding) the fan is a bit loud but not too bad.All in all a good amp for the money, I'd recommend it for people just starting out or who will only use it occasionally.

i JUST CAN'T BELIEVE THAT ANYONE COULD BE PROUD OF PRODUCING A PRODUCT LIKE THIS FIRST PROBLEM WAS RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX. I PLUG THE THING IN USING THE SUPPLIED POWER CORD TURN IT ON...... BEAUTIFUL THEN POOF IT SHUTS DOWN. TURN IT OFF& BACK ON NOTHING WIGGLE THE POWER CORD AND IT COMES ON AND SHUTS OFF AGAIN. READY TO RETURN THIS THING AS I DIDN'T WANT TO CHANCE IT AT MY NEW YEARS EVE GIG. ON A WHIM I SWAPPED OUT THE POWER CORDS AND WHAT DO YOU KNOW IT POWERED UP AND STAYED ON. NOT TRUSTING THIS THING I BROUGHT AS PARE AMP JUST IN CASE AND BOY WAS I RIGHT. SET EVERYTHING UP TURNED IT ON ,EVERYTHING WAS SOUNDING GREAT I WAS ACTUALLY IMPRESSED. WELL I NOTICED A LOWER VOLUME FROM ONE OF THE CHANNELS AND I THOUGHT IT TO POSSIBLY BE THE OUTPUT WIRE FROM MY CONTROLLER . I WENT TO DISCONNECT FROM THE BACK OF THE PYLE O AMP AND THE WHOLE CONNECTION PULLED OUT FROM THE BACK OF THE AMP!!! I HAVE NEVER AND I MEAN NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS HAPPEN AND I HAVE BEEN A MOBILE DJ FOR 35 YEARS JUST PATHETIC. I GUESS I SHOULD HAVE KNOW WHEN I OPENED THE OWNERS MANUAL AND IT WAS WRITTEN IN CHINESE BROKEN ENGLISH. YOU MAY LAUGH BUT THAT IS YOU FIRST CLUE THAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO TAKE A NOT SO FANTASTIC VOYAGE ON THE STRUGGLE BUS.LUCKILY AMAZON HAS AN EASY RETURN POLICY. i AM GOING BACK TO MY VINTAGE AMP THAT i KNOW WON'T LET ME DOWN AT CRUNCH TIME. MORAL OF THE STORY, YA GET WHAT YA PAY FOR

This amplifier is pretty good for the money. The amp just arrived at my house today, i just unboxed it and everything seems to be working perfectly fine. I am using this amp for a home stereo system, i have two speakers running on each channel, 4ohms per channel (which is 8ohms per speaker), this thing handles it like a champ, it can easily shake my house. The sound quality is very good, just make sure you already have a stereo preamplifier, or any other signal processing equipment. To be honest, i was actually kind of skeptical of pyle pro, first off because i have never heard of them before and because they have very little product reviews, but i'm pretty impressed with this amp. If you got some big speakers and need some power on a budget, get this amp, its cheap not to big, but packs a big punch. I gave this amp a five star because it does everything i personally need it to do.