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Ok. This is not an amplifier to play Madison Square Garden with. It is perfect to warm up with, or to use (as I do) in audition situations in studio rooms for film and musical theater.
I find it surprisingly loud for its small size, and have had no problem with the battery staying put. However, it does (the battery) run out a bit quickly.
Again, this is a great convenience to pop in a duffle bag and use to warm up with, audition with (for theater/film)and practice on, if you live in say, an apartment and can't blow down the house with noise. I still have to tone the volume down in my place in NYC.
If you really expect more than that for forty bucks, well....You get what I mean.

I don't know why this has such a weak rating. I am a musician thats on the road once in awhile. I use this to warm up real quick before going out, or if I'm writing music and want to hear something other than the strings ringing when I'm by the computer. This has really helped me with alot of stuff. It's not a amp to buy if you wanna use it like you're primary amp. It's just a little toy to warm up on or carry around with you when you need it. Like if you where to go on vacation and wanna play real quick it's there. The sound isn't too bad for a 1 watt amp. I personally love this little amp. It's well worth $40.00 bucks in my opinion.

I was extremely disappointed in this amplifier. It is small and cute-looking, but very cheaply made. The transistor battery connection is shoddy and the power to the amp is disrupted whenever the battery wiggles, which is quite often. In fact, I can't even comment on the sound, although I wasn't expecting much for the price, because the power pops on and off so often. The problem seems to be that the battery connection depends on pressure, but the case isn't tight enough to keep the termini engaged. The entire battery compartment is a design that I've never seen before with transistor batteries. Picture the usual transitor battery snappy-thing if they decided that wires and snaps were too expensive.

I tried to wedge increasingly large pieces of paper into the battery compartment to create enough pressure to keep the power going, but it became too much of a balancing act. Any time my son wanted to practice, we had fifteen minutes of fiddling with the amp to try to get it to work.

Don't waste your money on this unit. The manufacturer sure didn't waste any money making it. You can get a small, quality revamped amp for just $10-15 dollar more.

I bought this amp because it was cheap and small. Worst 20 dollars I ever spent. First of all, it sounds like absolute crap, no matter how you adjust the tone and volume knobs. Secondly, I had to break a CD jewel case and take some plastic and wedge it into the battery compartment so that the battery would work all the time. Otherwise no power would get to it at all.

And it's much smaller than I thought it would be, too. Which in itself isn't too bad, but it's smaller than a paperback copy of "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" by Douglas Adams.

I use it as a bookend now. It's not even a good bookend because it's so light.


Avoid.