Pyle Wireless Bluetooth Home Audio Amplifier - 100W 5.1 Channel Home Theater Power Stereo Receiver, Surround Sound w/ HDMI, AUX, FM Antenna, Subwoofer Speaker Input, 12V Adapter, Black - PFA560BT

Update#2: Amp is still working well, but the same cannot be said about the remote for it, or at least the remote functions. Pyle has been good and trying to send new remotes, but non of them are able to control the unit. This is an issue since the unit is mounted on the ceiling and the only way to get to it is on a ladder. I now have 4 remotes that do nothing. I tried to explain to Pyle that I believe the issue is something other than the remote, and they just said that they would close my ticket. Unfortunately, there is no way to control the unit now without getting on a ladder to adjust things, which isn't feasible.Amp looks to be well built. I will be installing it in a training classroom with a five speaker set up to replace an outdated amp and speakers that are currently there. After reading reviews, this product looks to fit my needs, plus the price was great. Hoping that it will work well. Will update after installed.Update: Amp paired with 5 Acoustic Audio R191 in ceiling speakers and sounds great. Sound quality is much improved over the failed system that was previously installed many years ago. One improvement that could be made is the blue led display. The amp is mounted on the ceiling and it is very difficult to read from a distance.

Make sure you use high speed HDMI cables if you're using this on your patio and you can also buy a weatherproof box and custom fit it inside it you do have to take the inside of the box out for the receiver to fit inside I custom-mounted it to the bottom of a Samsung TV It seems to be okay so far It was a little tricky but if you're handy with tools and you decide to hang the TV in your patio and put it in a weatherproof box you can see in the photos below how I did this and then I bought a weatherproof cover for it when it rains All good we're very happy with it and paired this with four Polk audio outdoor weather speakers sounds great for the value and when we want to watch a movie on the patio works okay. Remote is a little funky but you just have to take your time with it and be patient. The first unit I bought I sent back as it was the wrong configuration this one seems to work fine Don't expect it to be a rock opera but for the quality and sound that it provides it's just fine for a small patioAs you can see I took a couple close-up pictures I put a couple dabs of silicone sealant on the corners just so it wouldn't slip out as once you take the guts out of this weatherproof box there's nothing really to hold it in but once you get the cables connected and secured and feed them out of the back of the box which is a little tricky be careful not to disconnect them when you're putting them inside the best way is to feed them in through the back of the box before you seal the unit in there and gently pull the cables out as you push the unit inside the weatherproof box if this is what you'd like to do to weatherize the unit. We have had no issues with it since we installed it and it's been in almost a year For most of the sources it sounds fine and some nice feature to be able to use your phone with the Bluetooth feature if you want to listen to music remotely with your phone with various apps we have the television on a swivel mount so it can swivel around to the hot tub while you're in the hot tub you can watch it there or on the patio very versatile and we're happy

Pyle PFA540BT.5 Technical EvaluationI couldn't find much technical information about this unit online so decided to order one and discover for myself what it actually does. After playing with it for a couple of hours, here is what I learned.1. It advertises itself as a stereo (not surround) processor.Like most devices that can handle HDMI input, the PFA540BT uses Extended Display Identification Data (EDID) to tell other devices about its capabilities. True 5.1 audio receivers provide a list of 5.1 formats that they can process. This unit does not. The practical consequence is that your streaming device will politely find ways to send stereo content rather than surround-sound content. It's also a big clue that it can't process audio encoded in any of the common 5.1 formats.2. It can send audio to six channelsThe PFA540BT provides connections for five speakers (FL, FR, FC, SL, SR) plus an RCA connection for a subwoofer. I was able to get intelligible audio out of all six channels. In that sense, it's a 5.1 surround-sound amplifier. At first glance, this seems inconsistent with finding #1 above. That's where it gets interesting. Read on.3. It has a "surround" toggleSome reviewers on Amazon noted that the earlier model had a "surround" button that appeared to work backwards from what they expected, but that it had been "fixed" for this upgraded model. After some experimentation, I think I understand what they meant. To make sense of what this button does, it's important to remember that this amplifier can't process surround sound input. It works with only two input channels: front left (FL) and front right (FR). When the button is in the "off" position, it acts just like an ordinary stereo receiver. It plays the FL input through the FL output and the FR input through the FR output. It also merges both stereo input channels into one mono channel and plays it through the subwoofer output. That's it. The other three output channels (FC, SL, SR) remain silent.FL -> FLFR -> FRFL + FR -> SWWhen the surround button is in the "on" position, the receiver does exactly what it does with the button in the "off" position, but then it also uses the remaining three channels. My unit introduced a significant amount of noise to the surround channels (SL, SR) so I couldn't be completely sure, but here's what I think I heard. The surround channels duplicated the front channels. The center channel (FC) duplicated the subwoofer channel (SW). In table form:FL -> FLFR -> FRFL + FR -> SWFL -> SLFR -> SRFL + FR -> FC4. It truly can't process Dolby (AC3), DTS, or plain AAC surround soundJust for fun, I used an EDID generator to disguise the PFA540BT.5 as a true surround-sound receiver. Then I force-fed it 5.1 surround-sound content in three of the most common formats. It produced nothing but noise. Call that truth in advertising.THE BOTTOM LINEI tried to imagine a use case where the PFA540BT.5 would be an ideal choice. It's small and runs on twelve volts, which happens to match common automotive electrical systems. It's also cheap. As other reviewers have noted, it's too quiet to be useful in a moving vehicle but it could play a role in a mobile theater system -- if you're OK with five channel stereo rather than true surround sound. On the other hand, you could produce the same result but with more power by splitting your stereo source between two stereo amps, one of which might be built into your vehicle.I suppose that means I don't understand why anyone would want to buy this thing.

Very pleased and very simple to connect everything. What drew me in initially was the price and how small it is. My office is an old conference room and it had 5 speakers still mounted to the walls. I was able to connect them, plus a sub woofer, a TV and a fire stick. Bluetooth works great with my phone. I still have 1 HDMI input for a DVD player that was still left in the office. Co-workers were impressed with how small yet powerful the receiver is.