Arylic BP50 Bluetooth Stereo Preamplifier, Home Bluetooth 5.2 Music Receiver, with HDMI ARC, Phono in, RCA Optical out aptX HD Audio Transmitter.

I bought this to connect my turntable to bluetooth speakers. The sound was very poor on my first use, it was overdriving the input which caused distortion. So I delved into the settings and changed the cartridge setting from MM to MC. It now sounds fantastic through my speakers. I know my turntable has a Moving Magnet cartridge so can only assume the app developers have mislabelled the settings.I have also tried it as a DAC for my Samsung phone that doesn't have aptx HD. At first it sounded very quiet and a little bit dull. This was down to my phone turning the "Headphone' output to an ear friendly volume level. When I whacked it up to full volume, musical bliss was restored.So far I have no other problems with it at all. I'm just a bit gutted that Amazon have reduced the price to £99 (as of Feb 28th 2025) with a voucher for a further 10% off.*shakes fist at Amazon*

Bloody marvellous

I bought this item to link my TEAC turntable to my LG TV soundbar/subwoofer via bluetooth. I want minimum speakers in my room and so am prepared to sacrifice a small amount of quality for convenience. I already had a rudimentary BT link-up system in place but this unit replaced that and gave enhancements like preset equaliser settings as well as separate bass/treble/mid range adjustments which means that I can set my soundbar more efficiently. I like plenty of bass on my vinyl but not necessarily on my TV late at night to disturb the neighbours. Now I have the best of both worlds. I do not need to alter the soundbar presets at all and do it all via this pre-amp for my vinyl. One word of advice. I plugged my turntable phono outputs into the turntable phono inputs on this pre-amp. I discovered that it would not play cleanly while the turntable selector was used. I was on the cusp of returning it as faulty when I thought to try the line in selector instead using the remote. THEN it played cleanly. Another gripe is the range of the App is only about 3 feet !! that's all. If you want to use the App, make sure your phone ( I use an Iphone 14) and the unit are no further apart than that. Fortunately the supplied remote control does have a better range (albeit it's not supplied with any batteries, which seems a bit penny pinching to me) Those little niggles meant I could only give 4 stars. It is however a decent unit.

Sadly this good-looking product is of inferior quality. Optical out sometimes works sometimes doesn't. The app is dramatically bad. I returned mine the very next day. It's just poor altogether.

Product arrived in good condition.This preamplifier looks great but a few things on this device won't work like optical, the app won't recognise the device despite Bluetooth being switched on (reset both devices on several occasions.)The only connection that works is the HDMI Arc.I just don't have the time to send the device back so for now I'm going to keep hold of it as I can play my media through HDMI Arc at least.Sound quality is quite impressive plus it does look quite smart and has a premium feel to it. Just a real shame the other connections won't work.Easy to install, just plug and play.Small and compact to fit in tiny space if needed.Overall the device is great for the price despite some faults but I'm happy with it for now.My opinions about the product that I received are not in reflection to the seller in any way as the product was delivered on time and in great condition. It was my decision to keep the product.

This device is absolutely not worth the money, buy a WiiM instead! I know it cost more but the quality is so much better!!