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Date: 2008-01-22 Misleading promotion I bought the AudioSource Amp 100 to replace a 30-year-old Harmam-Kardon that had died - I used it to make cassette copies of old phonograph records. The Amp100 does accept the signal from my turntable and pre-amp and puts the sound on the speakers, proving that there was nothing wrong with my system but the dead stereo amplifier. However, although the Amp 100 clearly has stereo output jacks, the signal there will not provide anything useful to the cassette deck. Way down in the fine print of the instructions I discovered that this "output" is referred to as a "pass-through", which apparently means it is unamplified. Phooey! Date: 2008-01-19 Does just about what it says! This amp is powering some remote speakers, where we wanted a seperate volume control. It's cheap, works great. My only complaint is that, while you can hook up two pairs of speakers, it will only power one at a time! This is not an issue for what we're doing with it, but came as a minor surprise. Good product at a great price. Date: 2008-01-18 Not Bad A few points from my short time with this product using it as an amp for my computer pushing two bookshelf speakers- -I read all the other reviews, and the instructions so I use input 2 and don't have any problems with it turning itself off. -The binding posts in the back are rather hard to maneuver around if you are using larger gauge wires. -Power off isn't delayed or anything fancy like on other receivers, it's just a hard switch so you get the little "fwwoomp" noise. -It is constructed very well and doesn't seem to heat up at all. For the price, it is a great little piece, but it does seem a little low on power (couldn't push my towers well at all) but they do make a more powerful version. Date: 2008-01-12 Not quite perfect Well, it's acceptable, given the price. I exchanged the first one Amazon shipped me, because even input line 2, and even when set to "Manual" mode, was not turning on when a quiet input signal was actually present. The second one shipped to me works better. You definitely can only use line 2 if you might ever have a quiet signal (such as a pianissimo passage or rest in the middle of a piece!) and don't want your amplifier to decide all on its own to suddenly turn off, and then miss some music before it decides to turn on again. We are using it to drive two bookshelf speakers with a single input line from our iMac. Date: 2008-01-04 AudioSource Amp 100 has auto "on" and "off" I bought this power amplifier for my desktop computer to play a small pair of external speakers (B&W M-1's). It sounds great and has been working flawlessly for several weeks. It easily connects to the computer's stereo 1/8" analog audio jack (either headphone jack or line-out jack). Besides the attractive price it has a very nice power savings feature whereby it turns "off" and "on" by itself. Specifically, the power amplifier automatically goes into standby (i.e. very low power mode) after 10 minutes of not having detected any signal from the audio source (i.e. the computer). And it automatically turns "on" instantly when it detects an audio signal. So, basically you do not have to remember to turn this power amplifier "off" or "on". Note: To connect everything I only needed some speaker wire and an inexpensive audio cable available at any Radio Shack or other electronics store having a 1/8" male stereo connector on one end and RCA connectors (left & right channel) on the other end .
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