Kinter K3118 Texas Instruments TI Digital Hi-Fi Audio Mini Class D Home Auto DIY Arcade Stereo Amplifier with 12V 3A Power Supply Black

Some time ago I bought an AK-380 amplifier and a 12V 5A power supply for it. And now I've bought a Kinter K3118 and the AK-380 has met it's nemesis.On the same power supply as the AK-380 the Kinter is supplying bass where there wasn't bass before. The 10 or 12 inch bass drivers in my 40+ year old ProLab speakers are now doing some real work. As well as the improved bass there is more music and the music appears more open than before.The Kinter is staying cold. The AK-380 required a big old aluminium CPU cooler on top of it to bring temperatures down once the volume started to be wound up and being played for multi hour sessions.Is it perfect? No. The power supply plug can easily drop out it if you move the Kinter. This is a known problem. I've used a rubber band to help fix it in place but it needs a better modification. For the speaker connections I use banana plugs with pins and they are more awkward - almost impossible - to insert into the Kinter compared to the AK-380. The volume knob could use a dash of colour on it to indicate where it's position is. And the bass and treble controls could do with marking as well. There is also a small speaker pop when you turn the Kinter off. Again this is a known problem.Minor niggles but definitely recommended.

Great value and clean sound - "punches above its weight" - Just be careful of the speaker connector plastic tabs - They're rather flimsy - but as long as you are careful the value proposition far outweighs this wrinkle. I wouldn't use it in a road kit where you are connecting and disconnecting on a frequent basis. Watts and sound for the bucks - Killer good!

I mainly purchased this mini audio amp to replace the one I currently have because of buzzing noise it was making for the living room TV. It sounds better without that annoying buzz and does the job well. That's why my living room TV sounds better when I hooked it up to the RCA audio output behind the TV.

Very nice, small, adaquate power of output for 20ish watts, but the alimentation bloc isn't compatible in europe so i had to use another of mine that adapte for 12V and around 2.5A, which worked even if the product requires 3A theorically (better bit less than anything more !).

I bought this to drive a couple of Klipsch bookshelf speakers for my computer / desk. For 30 bucks I'm very happy with it. Everything sounds good and I've had no issues with the functionality. I think it's a pretty good value for what you get.

My use for this item is as an audio amp for an XTL1500 mobile radio used as a base station at my computer desk. When hooked up to a standard mobile speaker indoors, the fidelity and audio just wasn't to my liking, too much treble and too much background hiss for p25 audio when it is receiving. Just wasn't clean and reminded me of a cheap scanner which this is not.First thing I did when I got it before even hooking it up was take it apart and rip out the Blue LED's. It is gimmicky and cheap looking. All we need is a green or red status LED. Hooking it up was easy. I hooked the amp up directly to the speaker out on the radio (Motorola prefers you don't do this, just dont turn the radio AND amp all the way up or you will fry the speakers and possibly the amp). I found that radio volume at 55-65% works best. I turned the treble all the way down and bass up halfway and it has really cleaned up the audio to my liking. I now just use the amp as volume control and I love it. I also got a set of Pyle 200 watt speakers to go with it which work great. I imagine this will last a very long time being used like this considering its just driving police and fire chatter and not music for hours.

I've used this for about a week streaming music from a PC via the 3.5 audio output and other than a 5 second or so delay while it's powering up it works great for me. It's connected to six home speakers and a powered sub (no other amps) and in a shop where it gets loud, we don't raise the volume beyond 50%. Audio quality is pretty good for the $30 spent

Wow, it works well. And it's super inexpensive!