Pyle 4-Channel Waterproof Marine Amplifier, 600 Watt MAX, Car/Stereo Amp, Rugged Design, RCA Out to Amplifier, Weather-Resistant, Marine Grade IP-X6, 6"x3.86"x2.36" Inch

Nice size! Powerfull as well. I stacked 2 of these bad boys, using 1 for 1 10" shallow mounts and the other will have the Scar 8" long throw! All door speakers 6.5 components blast as well. They get a little warm so I added some fans in the compartment and helps alot. Also leveled the cover mat for top air movement. Added fans into the compartment and no problems.Thank you for such a Big little amp. Nice construction .

It's good

I have a fair amount of Pyle audio stuff I've gotten over the years for various applications (boat, utv, garage, etc) and I got it for the same reason most people do--it's relatively inexpensive for what you get. I didn't get it because it offers top of the line power and sound--I think most people know that and don't expect it at this price point. This amp is pretty par for Pyle course in that respect. It's offered at a value price point and does the job. It isn't the cleanest power and there's probably lots of room for improvement, but to do that you'd have to up the price significantly. So reviewing it as a budget level amp, it's hard to not rate this 5 stars.

This is a good amp. So far I haven't had any real issues with it, it's not something you are going to win competitions with but paired with some decent speakers you'll have the equivalent to a premium sound system in your car/truck.

Amazon advertised this as Bluetooth but it's not! Also gets very very hot! DO NOT mount this to any plastic or similar surface as it will melt it!

Pyle of... There's a reason for that nickname. When a company produces mediocre and even low quality audio equipment for decades and wrecks their brand name then it could be surprising when you get an amp of theirs to review that doesn't absolutely suck. I wouldn't call this amp hi-fi but it does the job.Morning, it gets really hot on the side because of how small the chassis is.ProsSmall, efficient, four channel and bridgeable.ConsNot high fidelityThere's a component inside that vibrates and you can faintly hear the music.There's only a single stereo input for a 4-channel amplifier.You can bridge it but you cannot bridge both right channels and then both left channels to go with a high power stereo. This is probably the biggest oversight and biggest failure of this amplifier. Two of the channels had the right idea by swapping the appropriate output drive but they forgot to invert the signal. Basically both right channels are in phase with each other instead of one of them being inverted with the positive and negative terminal swapped like most bridge amplifiers. This means that you can only bridge left and right, and then left and right again into a dual mono. As an electrical engineer I might take apart the preamp filtering section to find out where I need to modify the board to make it inverted. This is such a fail. They could have provided two stereo inputs, which would have solved the problem, or had just been a little bit smarter and inverted the signal going out one of the stereo pairs.the other huge oversight, which is not surprising coming from a pile of.. amplifier is the very small 16 gauge power wire. I was able to load all four channels with 4 ohm power resistors and I was able to get the 50 Watts of power but 30 amps over a 16 gauge cable is dangerous and stupid.As for it being rated for marine, I wouldn't put this in any place where it's going to get wet. There's minimal amount of ceiling around the edges and only about half the board is conformal coded, the half on the outside while the inside is uncoated.As far as their class d architecture goes it's very surprising as they went with a completely discreet class d driver with only a dual op-amp at the heart of it instead of going with a tried and true low noise class d driver like one of the IRS2092s drivers that you find in all of the modern class d amplifiers. Or they could have gone with one of the new ones that have the switching vets built into it but those are top and bottom cooled and it makes it more difficult to get the heat to the chassis.What surprised me to be honest was that I could not discern any major audible distortion. To my ears, which are very trained, it sounded decent. It didn't have huge amounts of power and I was only playing them on some bookshelf speakers.Would I buy this amplifier, no. I was happy to review it for free on Amazon Vines as I am an electrical engineer and an audio enthusiast. I will say that I did see some cut corners like they're grounding connector just floating there pressed against the chassis whose paint on one corner was ground off to make contact with the grounding wire. That is the kind of workmanship I expect from Pyle.If there are other brands out there in the same price point I would go with them for sure.

This arrived nicely packaged. It included some harware and user guide. The amplifier felt durable. I know Pyle isn't top of the line, but neither are the Herdio speakers or powered subs. I didn't expect much but was very happy with the results. I like that it's not too big and fits in my battery box without taking up much room. There is a nice thick rubber cover over the knobs. Hooking this up to my system was very easy. I build a lot of low voltage stuff like solar rechargeable power stations, stereos, entertainment centers, etc. One of my more recent builds was my outdoor surround sound system for movie nights out on the projector. I built it using a boat stereo, outdoor speakers, a couple of 10" powered subs, Lifepo4 batteries, a charge controller, and solar panels. I added this amp to my setup, and it's made a big difference. It's not a true surround sound system because it's only 4 channels and the 2 subs, but it sounds amazing. Between that and watching a movie on my 20-foot screen, everyone loves the setup when we do movie nights in my yard. I am in the middle of building a new system with a cheap touchscreen android stereo. I will probably transfer this amp to the new stereo or get another one like it. I am happy with this.

This works pretty well and is decently made. It is worth what you pay for it.