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    Red face Auna amplifiers

    Hi

    I am being offered, second hand, an Auna amp for £40, this claims to be a 1500w Hi-Fi amplifier...
    Now, the Auna website seems genuine and reliable, and the company seems fine... But there are a lot of reviews on the web about the company, and they all seem bad. So, my question is: Is Auna a bad make, or is it just their certain models/just their Hi-Fi amplifiers/just their Car amplifiers?

    Auna AMP-6100 is the model

    Cheers

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    Re: Auna amplifiers

    That would be a pretend 1600 watts, made up from :

    2 x 120W RMS plus 4 x 40W RMS = 400 watts RMS.

    The trick is the RMS. They are quoting the good old "peak music power output, or PMPO (or fake as we call it).

    40 quid ????

    Rubbish, dont waste your money.
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    Re: Auna amplifiers

    What g8ina said.

    Personally, I'd dismiss out of hand, any claim of 1500w amplifiers. As said, that'll almost certainly be peak power, and I'm not aware of reputable companies using anything other that RMS (root-mean-squared, a sort of average measurement of waveform) in years. Decades, even.

    I'd also question 1500w and "hifi". Why anyone would need 1500w amplifier power in a domestic situation beats me. First, if that were RMS, you'd need to be VERY careful what speakers you hooked up to it, and ever turning it up above a tiny fraction of maimum power, or you'd vaporise the voice coils in high frequency speakers and probably melt the crossovers. Oh, okay, "vaporise" might be overstating it, but you'd blow most speakers easily. And if you didn't, I hope your listening room is about the size of a large town's Town Hall, because in the average bedroom/living room, you'd either blow the double glazing out of it's frames, or shred listener's eardrums.

    As for £40, you can get some bargains on quite old amps at that price provided you, first, know what you're looking at, and second, are able to fix the problems you are quite likely to encounter on old gear. But it's a bit of a minefield, so tread carefully.


    PS. I know nothing about Auna, either good or bad. I've never heard of them. I base my opinion directly on that 1500w power claim, which personally, I'd treat with not so such a pinch of salt as a mountain of it.

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    Re: Auna amplifiers

    Any recommendations on good amplifier?

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    Re: Auna amplifiers

    I had bad experience with used amplifiers, whenever I need one, I always pick new

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    Re: Auna amplifiers

    Quote Originally Posted by samuel0 View Post
    I had bad experience with used amplifiers, whenever I need one, I always pick new
    So I am replying to myself I decided to purchase a new amplifier, probably something from this non-commercial **SNIP** , I think **SNIP** might become a great option as it has enough power to sustain high-level speakers and solid protection mode.




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