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Quality


Sound quality is fantastic very powerful too


Very happy with the quality of this amp


This thing kicks the pants off a cheap lepai amp that gets recommende for budget builds everywhere that little amp sounds good ...  Read More


I could turn down the hum just by maxing out the pres volume and controlling the output with the smsl

Packaging/appearance


The packaging and product are nicely done good foam insert for shipping and nice looking solid product build


I turned the volume to max on the smsl and started cranking the pre amp toward full volume and


Also kudos to amazon for giving me 20 dollars off for damaged packaging


At first listen i plugged my computer into the smsl

Competitiveness


Update 2242017 paired this with a polk audo psw10 subwoofer


I supplement it with an nht 8 powered subwoofer when listening above personal listening volume


Keep in mind this is the amplifier with the 24vdc power supply and although i have not tried the 12vdc model i think smsl has a...  Read More


3118 has no heat sink but dumps it to boardso tread lighter than with external sinked 3116

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  • Our AI detects a high amount of irrelevant reviews for this listing. A number of the reviews included in this product may belong to other variations, editions or versions that may not be representative of the current product being sold.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is high deception involved.
  • Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 58.2% of the reviews are reliable.
  • This product had a total of 310 reviews as of our last analysis date on Feb 20 2022.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I havent opened mine up to see what the actual chip onboard is


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    But when i tried to use an fm tuner as the source as soon as i turned on the amp fm reception went to zero


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I was going to use this in my rv to power speakers in a different area when feeding it with 12v power from the rv it picked up noise from the inverter i suppose


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The amp seems to start clipping especially at the lower frequencies at only a few watts though these seakers arent so sensitive 84db


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The unit runs cool and runs off my 13


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I had one of these for aboput 4 years before it died


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The only thing i didnt like was that it came in just the oem box and wasnt even taped shut


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Almost stacks up to my yamaha nat sound av at 80 watts not in power but clinical clarity

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