$39 guitar amp

[amz-fx]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2566630226&category=10171&rd=1

It's probably worth $39 just to get the speaker, box and chassis....  

I don't have anything to do with this seller or product, just ran across it.

regards, Jack

[petemoore]

Less than 20 Big Macs, or one guitar amp...which do you would last longer?

[Dan N]

The shipping charge is 34.95. Kind of a deal breaker...

[Mike Nichting]

Big macs~!!!  the Big Macs would last longer at least as a spare tire goes they would :-)

[Mark Hammer]

A quick search indicates that there are a LOT of dealers selling this amp within a couple bucks of $39...worldwide.  Somebody, somewhere must have either an outlet near you (e.g., Best Buy sells them), or more reasonable shipping costs.

I'm a little skeptical of the power ratings, though.  Perhaps Pyle are proud members of the Computer Speaker Power Ratings Association.  You know, those folks who brought you the 3" 360W-PMP speakers in a plastic case for $9.99.

If the PPG250A isn't loud enough for your grandmother to hear with her hearing aid up full, they also have 400-800W models with 8" speakers for another $10-30 more.

[Ge_Whiz]

I was impressed by the 2 x 400W rack-mount amplifier labelled "For Car Use Only". Gee, I ALWAYS wondered what that rack was for in my car - and I just hung my coat on it. :?

Maybe I could buy a rack-mount effects unit with a synthesized "broom broom" noise for when I drive off...

[hodad]

Maybe I could buy a rack-mount effects unit with a synthesized "broom broom" noise for when I drive off...

Well, there is a PCB made by Ken Stone (Cat Girl Synth) called a "V8 Simulator".  Perhaps it's just what you're looking for.

[David]

Mark:

I had a bass cabinet for a long time that had a 12" Pyle "Driver" speaker.  It sounded terrific, and I sure wish I still had it!  If they kept their speaker quality up in the intervening 20 years, there would be nothing wrong with the speaker in this amp.

[Mark Hammer]

A lot of people like Pyle speakers, and they are reasonably priced.

The amplifier itself might be a decent product too.  There is a tremendous consistency in quality emerging from the use of power amp chips and inexpensive high quality op-amps and caps, and there aren't that many different ways to produce 3-band EQ or diode clipping, so I expect it to sound acceptable and at least as good as the other low-end competition (Fender Frontman, Crate, teeny Vox and solid-state Peaveys, etc).

Anyone who believes that a $39 amp with a 6.5" speaker and  the phrase "200W" beside it is going to "rock the house", though, probably has another thing coming.  Chances are probably pretty good that it uses an SGS-Thompson or NatSem chip in the 25W range, and the listed power rating is some sort of twisted measurement involving what it could do for a millisecond without spontaneously combusting, on a good day, with the wind at its back.  Certainly the sort of power supply one would need to generate that sort of wattage into a 4-8ohm load would, on its own, cost more than $39.

On the other hand, if they want $35 for shipping, maybe the transformer IS that big....  :wink:

[Ansil]

Big macs~!!!  the Big Macs would last longer at least as a spare tire goes they would :-)

yeah man do you knowhow long it takes a big mac to breakdown, its like styrofoam,  a coulpe of thousand years.  lol

[Erik]

My first thought was that this auction was a joke... A big Pyle of sh*t to be discovered once the shipping box was opened.