I love mine. I did modify it a little. First, I didn’t see a reason for the fan. The sound of the fan starting and stopping bothered me. Some listeners it might not. I changed the fan out to one that I can’t hear, at all. Now my amp is perfect. Best bang for the buck.
I had something similar to this. A Rockville blutube amp. It looks a lot like this amp. Then I got a pure tube amp. It was a nobsound 6jp1 amp. I think. It had huge power tube. And like six other tubes. Sounded pretty good. I now have a schitt freya* and a emotiva xpa dr2 power amp. I’ve gotten a little akai as-1030 vintage amp. Sweet warm coloration sound. This is an expensive hobby
If you have rca outs on your home theater receiver like my Denon does, for your left and right front speakers, you sure can. 99% sure the optical isn’t going to work.
I run this with a 10” sub with crossover set at 100hz…Gads of bass. …and the BT works wonderfully when using that input. I agree mids and highs are focused/accurate/uncolored at least through the fatman satellites running with my sub. My ears prefer fast/punchy/accurate lows and mid-lows and I find myself dialing the bass back a bit more often than not. Thanks for your review
So a turntable doesn't sound so good on this unit? Im looking for a small tube preamp/amp like this for that very reason. A friend of mine has a Douk Audio X1 tube amp that he purchased on Amazon and swears by it producing an excellent sound quality from his turntable.
@@blackbeansmatter1280 nabbed another pair off craigslist last week. Drove 3 hours one way. $350 for the pair. Sounded good in his surround sound....got them home and realized a tweeter is dead. New caps soon and a Crites titanium diaphragm...hope all is good.
If you really want to improve this unit go and get some German tubes telefunken just find the matching ones that you will need and you will be extremely happy I am
I love mine. I did modify it a little. First, I didn’t see a reason for the fan. The sound of the fan starting and stopping bothered me. Some listeners it might not. I changed the fan out to one that I can’t hear, at all. Now my amp is perfect. Best bang for the buck.
nice, which fan did you swap in?
Waiting for mine to arrive and as long as it has phone input I’ll be happy!
Great video! Enjoyed the quick jokes and the way you explain things, especially for someone like me who is just starting learn about this space.
I had something similar to this. A Rockville blutube amp. It looks a lot like this amp. Then I got a pure tube amp. It was a nobsound 6jp1 amp. I think. It had huge power tube. And like six other tubes. Sounded pretty good. I now have a schitt freya* and a emotiva xpa dr2 power amp. I’ve gotten a little akai as-1030 vintage amp. Sweet warm coloration sound. This is an expensive hobby
So could you link a home receiver to this using an optical chord?
Did you ever try it?
If you have rca outs on your home theater receiver like my Denon does, for your left and right front speakers, you sure can. 99% sure the optical isn’t going to work.
I run this with a 10” sub with crossover set at 100hz…Gads of bass. …and the BT works wonderfully when using that input. I agree mids and highs are focused/accurate/uncolored at least through the fatman satellites running with my sub. My ears prefer fast/punchy/accurate lows and mid-lows and I find myself dialing the bass back a bit more often than not. Thanks for your review
So a turntable doesn't sound so good on this unit? Im looking for a small tube preamp/amp like this for that very reason. A friend of mine has a Douk Audio X1 tube amp that he purchased on Amazon and swears by it producing an excellent sound quality from his turntable.
Just unboxed and connected to vintage klipsch KG4 speakers using bluetooth Tidal ap. After a little warmup, sounds mighty sweet.
Those KG4 are killer speakers
@@blackbeansmatter1280 nabbed another pair off craigslist last week. Drove 3 hours one way. $350 for the pair. Sounded good in his surround sound....got them home and realized a tweeter is dead. New caps soon and a Crites titanium diaphragm...hope all is good.
did you hook up the sub amp?
Mine has low volume static on right channel after about 50 hours of total play. Should I replace the tubes? Annoying sound.
Great video! I do need a preamp for the turntable? What kind of turntable does it play? Belt drive or magnetic? Thanks!
It has a phono input. I'm using a Pro Ject Essential III which has no preamp of it's own. Just plug it into the HTA100. Works great.
Moving magnet not moving coil.
Do you know if this will run a pair of Forte 2's ?
Are you kidding me? With the efficiency of the Forte's you can run them with one watt, they are rated at 100 decibels per one watt input per meter
How much do you wanna bet the warm glow from the tubes are LEDs. Notice how they snap right on.
You are wrong.
with a subwoofer it sound just fine, i have a 12'' subwoofer hooked up to mine it rattles the house and it Christal clear.
If you really want to improve this unit go and get some German tubes telefunken just find the matching ones that you will need and you will be extremely happy I am
What type of German tubes and numbers thanks
Try running with single driver, full range, high efficiency speakers no crossover.
The phono stage is a bit poor, but the rest is spot on.
Try parallel wiring. Half your homs, double your output…(if your speakers allow)
love mine....if you buy this for sixties vinyl....beatles etc....you dont listen to these for booming overwhelming bass...."no no ...treble is it"
Now if we could get one with a USB DAC built in rather than just file playback
Jeez... What'd you expect for $230? lol
Exactly! Sometimes I think these morons that are doing these reviews are forgetting that they are not doing the review on a $5,000 tube amp. Sheesh
It would probably sound great with a subwoofer.
I run mine with a set of Elac 6.2’s and I find no need for a sub.
Get a subwoofer since you like base
The phono preamp on this unit is actually the worst part of the amp, if you want to improve the sound quality buy a dedicated phono preamp
What do you mean? I'm dedicating this to my turn. Table, how bad is it hit me up? Let me know what I need. Thank you.
Their fake tube amps the tubes are just for show. Lol.
wrong.
They're, not their. What are you basing your claim on?? Those are the preamp side only, not the amp, which is solid state.
They are the pre-amp.