Pyle - 5 Channel Shelf Mount Bluetooth Receiver, Home Theater Amplifier, Speaker Amplifier, Bluetooth Wireless Streaming, MP3/USB/SD/AUX/FM Radio, 200 Watt, Digital ID3 LCD Display - by PDA7BU.5

This works great for our living room!

Has lots of bells and whistles i haven't discovered yet. Good unit. So far, it does what advertised.

This receiver worked out perfect , plenty of power , clear sound.

Fairly decent receiver with easy setup. Have 5 large tower speakers hooked up to it for surround sound and the volume knob hardly leaves a quarter of the way up because its fairly loud. Even when playing music im scared to turn it past halfway! Bluetooth works well and connects easily. Only draw back is the remote doesn't really work effectively so you have to get up to adjust the volume. Oh, and bonus feature, the microphone jacks also work with my bass guitar's amp cord.

How is it acceptable to sell a "rack mount" amplifier that can't be rack mounted? What kind of product manager would approve this insanity? It ships with four feet attached internally to the device. These are clearly problematic right off the bat for rack mounting. A rack "U" is a static measurement that never changes. The solution on the manufacturer's website to make this device, advertised as rack mountable, actually rack mountable, you must remove the feet yourself. Fine, I guess. ...only you can't remove the feet at all unless you completely dissemble the device. Not just a few screws -- we're talking over 10 screws of multiple different threads and lengths, and depending on how you do it, someone could waste even more time removing the knobs and retaining nuts since two of the screws are hidden underneath circuit boards. Another 16 pieces of hardware to remove. It is ludicrous that the official recommendation of the manufacturer to make their device work as advertised is to fully disassemble it. But, I stuck it out and did it anyway. ...but then the screws on the underside are not inset and they stick out, clearly exceeding the static dimensions of a rack U and are unprotected by the front plate like the top screws are. This causes the amplifier to scratch the device underneath. Damaging neighboring devices is somehow acceptable to Pyle. We're now at the second different reason why a device advertised as rack mountable is not rack mountable. The whole point of a rack mountable device is to live within the constraints of a rack with devices that operate with other devices on top or below it. So, I removed the screws, which caused the device to lose its rigidity, but I did it anyway because it won't be moved much. ...but next is the third flaw, and this one is fatal: the rack ears don't even align to a rack! We're not talking a matter of a 1U device extending to 2Us -- they are literally spaced too far apart no matter how you vertically align them. Is it perhaps 1.5Us instead? Nope! They don't fit in-between Us, either. So here we have a "rack mountable" device, advertised as rack mountable, which can't actually be rack mounted for three completely different reasons. Genuinely impressive, Pyle. I went above and beyond to find a way to make it work. I should send them a bill.