bought this amp. is it any good?

[jonbearsmt 919]

i payed 80 bucks, i have many many receivers, and speakers in my house, but u wanna step up in my home audio area. so i see this amp and i figure it maybe worth it.. any one have any input?

[Acidburn 10]

Optimus is the Radio Shack brand

[johnecon2001 82]

That looks old enough to be pre-radio crap

[jonbearsmt 919]

well radio shack items are made by top brand manufacturs, ........ but yes it is an oild radio shack style amp.... my question is not where it came from.. but rather if anyone has ever used it and if i can get a decent sound from it.

[///M5 2,833]

Can't say that I have used that one for anything other than noise, but for $80 there should have been some better options.

[jonbearsmt 919]

help me... where could have have better spent my money?? im clueless in home audio.

[JimJ 11]

It's not that old, I remember that being in the catalogs when they stopped having paper catalogs, probably around '01-'02 IIRC...

well radio shack items are made by top brand manufacturs,

Well, not for several decades

If you have it, you might as well use it until something else comes along...I really wouldn't consider it a "keeper" as there are a lot better things out there for slightly more money.

What are you looking to do?

[jonbearsmt 919]

well to be honest i had a few ideas for this amp... my first was....... to just make it a sub amp.. in my home office i have the following set up......

1 laptop

2 desk tops,

1 kenwood VR 505 for the reciver,

2 yamaha moniors, for audio,

2 RCA book shelfs,

1 8 inch powerd sub....

i have all the PC's on channels where i can select what pc i wish to have audio from.... but i have 2 10's that i figure i could take the output going to my powered subs.. go into this amp..... and then run these two 10's for a better bottom end.......

2 second idea....

im house shopping.. and i will own a garage in the next year... i figured i could also just run speakers off it for my shop... or yard speakers for partys, or what ever!!