Behringer A 500

[wee tee cee]

Can anyone with experience of one of these amps give me an honest opinion? Helluva lot of amp for the money, I can run it as a mono block so looking at two. If its no great shakes sonically I would prefer to know.

[Macca]

I've got a couple of them for sale if you want to try them out cheap. Say a ton forty for the pair plus delivery.

[Macca]

Should mention if you want to monoblock them it has to be into 8 ohms or greater. Which is why I bought them and why I don't use them. Oh and they dont like the croft micro basic pre amp. But sound fine with my other pre amps.

[hoopsontoast]

I used a single one as the bass amp in my previous active setup. Either up to around 800Hz or 2kHz and I thought it sounded excellent, as much power as you could realistically need and it ran cool even when used at higher levels and long periods.
Mine had an issue with hum but that was solved running the front pots down to half way and using a bit more on the pre volume (or gain in the MiniDSP/active crossover).

[wee tee cee]

Should mention if you want to monoblock them it has to be into 8 ohms or greater. Which is why I bought them and why I don't use them. Oh and they dont like the croft micro basic pre amp. But sound fine with my other pre amps.

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[wee tee cee]

Should mention if you want to monoblock them it has to be into 8 ohms or greater. Which is why I bought them and why I don't use them. Oh and they dont like the croft micro basic pre amp. But sound fine with my other pre amps.

Intend to give them a go with a tisbury pre and 63s/Spendor SP1s.......some SS oumph!
Read Jerries (jandl) write up on the wam.....will give it a go and let folks know how I get on.......

[Macca]

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[DSJR]

Intend to give them a go with a tisbury pre and 63s/Spendor SP1s.......some SS oumph!
Read Jerries (jandl) write up on the wam.....will give it a go and let folks know how I get on.......

No disrespect, but if this amp doesn't like the Croft basic preamp, then a passive may actually be even worse.. The better solid state preamps offer a very low output impedance which should be fine I think. You can buy some good oldies for not too much - MF XP 100, original Cyrus preamp and AVI S2000 are three that come immediately to mind. I haven't used the TEC one for £60 or so, but the chip used should be good for this purpose....

[wee tee cee]

Dave,
Will give it a go with the passive....should be interesting!!!!

[DSJR]

Good for you and I genuinely hope it works well for you