S.M.S.L AL200 Stereo Integrated Amplifier, 2-Channel Class D Audio Headphone Amp, MA5332MS Chip XMOS XU-316 MQA DSD Native 256, RCA/Bluetooth/USB/Coaxial/Optical Input with IR Remote Control

Lieferung und Verpackung OK. Das Klangbild über die digitalen Eingänge läßt keine Wünsche offen. Für mich ein großes Manko ist das Fehlen der HQ-codecs z.B aptX, AAC, LLC etc. für die Bluetooth-Verbindung. Das Display (7-Segment Anzeige) mutet etwas archaisch an, etwa 80 Jahre, als es noch keine graphischen Pixel Displays gab. Reicht aber aus. Die Leistung reicht für kraftvollen Sound.Alles in einem ist das Gerät zu empfehlen, wenn man kein Bluetooth nutzen möchte.

Great desktop Amp. Lovely sound with plenty of power. Total Bargain.Only quibble is that it doesn't shut off when left dormant a while. Comes on again if there's a power cut. Why?

This amp is pretty good and planty powerfull for my speakers (B&W DM110i). I did A/B comparison with WiiM Amp and I liked the sound bit more although later have much better connectivity options. The thing I find not so great is that I have received returned device as new. It had fingerprints all over it. The package was opened and no protection foil over the display.

Have been trying for 3 days to get a sound out. Bought two Bose 251 speakers and the damn thing doesn’t work. Feels cheap and useless

THE SMSL AL200 SOUNDS MORE LUSH AND DETAILED AND HAS LITTLE MORE BASS COMPARED TO THE SMSL AL300,BOTH UNITS ARE VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENED...YOU WILL BE VERY PLEASED

The S.M.S.L. AL200 amp matches up with Micca RB42 bookshelf speakers very well.

I have a family member who uses a 20-year-old stereo receiver to power a pair of Sonance Mariner speakers on the patio in his South Saint Paul, MN home. He likes to use his Android phone as the source and sometimes uses an Android tablet to watch sports, sending the audio to a Bluetooth receiver for both activities. The receiver began having problems recently so he asked if I had any ideas for a replacement. I was familiar with the somewhat new new "mini amp" category, as I own a Topping DAC pre-amp and companion amplifier for an office system using Sonos as a source and KEF LS50 speakers.I've been following the "sister" company SMSL for some time, and knew they made similarly good products, though aimed more towards the mainstream customer's needs. When the opportunity came up to help with the deck audio project, I knew an SMSL integrated amplifier would be a good choice. My goals for the chosen amplifier would be integrated Bluetooth 5.0 for low-latency audio transmission (a must when playing video with audio), an optical digital input, and an integrated power supply.Many of the small mini-amps use a separate power brick. That's fine to keep the size of the chassis as small as possible, and also to give buyers the option to use larger power supplies to get more power from the amp. But that was not a priority here. We needed a simple, one-chassis solution, bceuase the amplifier is in the garage and needs to be taken into the house during the winter.I settled on this amplifier, as it was a newer model and checked all of the requirement boxes. When it arrived, I rant it thought its paces on a number of speakers at my house, to include a set of older Boston Acoustics floorstanders, as well as some Sonance in-ceiling speakers. I tested the various inputs, using the Bluetooth on my iPhone 12 Max, as well as a Sonos Port using the digital coax output. Tidal Lossless music was the source. I was pleased to see that there's effectively zero audio lag using Bluetooth, and the sound was lush, detailed and open, even though Bluetooth as a rule include some compression of the audio. When it came to playing the Sonos Port, the sound was also excellent.One hallmark of the sound is "heft". The amp has punch, guts, and detail. I'm confident that it'll very easily power just about any speaker in the 4-ohm to 8-ohm range with medium to low sensitivity. One final thing on the sound: there's effectively zero audible hiss, which is a peeve of mine in amps. The background in tracks is quiet, deep.Of special note is the case design. The front panel aluminum is beautifully made and exudes refinement. The knobs have a very solid, positive feel when pressed and rotated. And the case itself has some heft and mass. Overall, it feels very, very well made, at a tier that's far above the price point.Aside from a small front panel display that has a limited number of characters, navigating the menu for inputs, EQ and tone control settings (which I didn't need to use in my system), a 3-stage front panel brightness, using the system was a fairly intuitive process and only took a few attempts to understand the abbreviated function naming.Color me far more impressed than I'd planned to be with the AL200. I know my family member will be pleased with the amplifier and will see it as a very nice upgrade over his older rig. That, and the AL200 will be on my short list of amplifiers to recommend to friends with similar system needs. The only thing I cannot speak to is long-term reliability, as the amplifier is new. SMSL has had a few problems with previous mini amplifiers, but the company seems quite serious about making high-value, near-premium quality products...so hopefully they're through the mistakes made in previous products.In summary, I really like the AL200. I just may buy one, too.

Me reservo ampliar este comentario pues su sonido sigue mejorando tras tres dias.Suena mucho y bien de momento, posee mejor BLUETOOTH ( codec SBC) que el SMLS AO 200 Y DAC integrado de buena conversión.Una vez quemado su sonido es limpio y potente, sin ruido ninguno de fondo y clínico en el sentido de resolutivo y frío... al nivel de ser poco emocionante en su reproducción, lo peor que tiene essu sibilancia del espectro agudo que resulta sobredimensionado respecto al resto, haciendolo incomodo yRelegado respecto a otros dispositivos similares mas amables.Lo he comparado respecto a mi otra posesion, y suena mas ppotente pero no mejor que mi Tangent Ampster BT1 que con tan solo 30w proyecta una ejecución sonora está llena de vitalidad emocionante, chispeante dimensionalidad y ello al margen de sus peores cifras de ruido, distrorsión y potencia respecto del SMSL AL 10, pero ademas tampoco suena mejor que su hermano el SML 8 S que a igualdad de chippero yo siempre he sostenido que el mejor amp. es el que te dé los mejores primeros veinte watios, de ejecución sonora lena de matices, tonalidades y dinámicas micro y macro, tenga solo 20W o 200.

I was very excited for this amp and build quality feels very premium...at first. The first unit I got had a bad optical port out of the box, it sounded awesome over the Bluetooth connection and I hoped that this defect was just a fluke. I returned and got a new one. The new one has a broken power knob that grinds against the metal case and doesn't click in and out properly. I could not afford to spend the effort trying a 3rd unit, I will have to look at other brands unfortunately.

COMPLETLY SILENT BACKGROUND NOISE....USING KLIPSCH LASCALA SPEAKERS 104 SENSITIVE DB 1 WATT INPUT, IGNORE THE NEGATIVE REVIEW ,CAUSED BY A MISMATCHED UPSTREAM SOURCE OR CABLE,SMSL A200 IS A SUPERB AMPLIFIER

I bought this unit for the same reason I bought the Topping MX5. I wanted an all-in-one solution that was more convenient than my DX3 Pro+/PA3s stack, one I could power everything on simultaneously by remote. Bonus points if it can be done within a single chassis and not through multiple with use of a trigger (DX3 Pro+ doesn’t have a trigger anyway). Tone controls are the nice cherry on top, allowing a bit of tweaking depending on the speaker attached. Despite the MX5 being the perfect device on paper, I couldn’t get past its various squeals, hums, and buzzes it created through my speakers as I operated/used it in a normal fashion. Eager to find an alternative, I found the AL200. Does SMSL’s device pick up where the MX5 fell short?Sure! If you want to go insane with its non-stop tinnitus sound it produces.Once connected to my Celan 3, the moment it was powered on there was an nasty high-pitched ringing that came from the tweeters. It’s loud enough to hear easily from my listening position 6ft away and even while playing music at lower volumes. It’s a much worse sound than a typical idle “buzz” you get from noisier amps or tube amps and it very quickly made me think it was coming from inside my head. That random brief moment of tinnitus I periodically get sounds EXACTLY like the sound coming out of my speakers when connected to the AL200. Doesn’t matter the input, volume, cables, or plug I’m using. Same volume, same frequency, non stop. It pierces through whatever music I’m playing and I have yet to get through even one song on this amp because it's so maddening and fatiguing. Only way for me to stop this horrific sound was to turn off the unit (although, it also briefly stopped for a second during input changes). The incredibly thin silver lining is there are no pops or squeals during power up or power down like there was with the MX5, nor are there weird sounds when pausing during bluetooth playback.This is unquestionably a dealbreaker and I wouldn’t keep or use this unit if it was free.Otherwise, this unit had a lot of potential, as did the MX5. As seen from the picture above, the chassis is incredibly thin, but is both wider and deeper than many similar amps/dacs. While it kinda reminds me of a mini PS4 slim, I did prefer the squat size/shape of the MX5 more. The display is very easy to read and it’s nice to have the volume display in whole numbers only (I despise when 0.5 increments are used, looking at you E30, E70). The display can even be turned off via the remote and have the unit still operate normally, which is kinda cool. The remote is about the same size as the typical one Topping uses but feels more cheap. Binding posts also feel super cheap. Knob is nice to turn and feels nicer than the one on DX3 Pro+.Up next, headphone jack. Silent. Not a peep. Tried with my HD6XX, but in doing so, discovered another design flaw. The 1/4th headphone jack is abnormally recessed into the unit. If you use 1/8th headphone jacks with a 1/4th snap on adapter, it will come off and be left stuck in the unit! It was very difficult for me to remove the adapter from the jack due to it being recessed and the jack being super tight. If you use a screw-on adapter, I’d be worried that you’d cause stress on the threads every time you pulled headphones out from the unit. Even if you used a 1/4th plug, depending on the size of it, I’d think it’d still be difficult to grip the jack housing when removing and might result in people pulling it out by the cable. I guess the solution to this is leaving an adapter plugged into the unit, but then you’d always have something sticking out.There’s one more thing. I noticed SMSL had a very similar unit to this one called the AO300 for like 50 more bucks. Another all-in-one unit, but this one has a sub out and dual headphone jacks. But the screen, why oh why? While it looks big, just go watch videos of the unit in operation and you’ll notice the screen is actually MUCH smaller than the reflective window that portrays the screen actually is. You’ll also see how TINY the text is on the display, with microscopic volume numbers. I use mine in a TV based setup and need to see the volume easily. AL200 is much superior in that regard, but I do like the sleek look of the AO300 more.At the end of the day, I’m wondering why I’m now 0 for 2 with these all-in-one units that behave so poorly that one has to question whether they are straight up defective or just have serious design flaws. I don’t know if the power supply within the unit and/or size has something to do with it, since the PA3s and PA7 amps I’ve tried have the power brick outside the unit and are silent. Regardless, I hope I’ll be able to find one of these combo units one day that is actually quiet, while retaining an easy to read volume display. Needless to say, I cannot recommend the AL200 unless you enjoy endless ringing in your ears.