Quiet Amp for Home Use

[Amplified]

Have an Aguilar TH500 but the fan seems to be very loud. Is there any amp that does not need fans? Anything below $3k is fine.

 

[B-string]

For home use and smallish/small medium gigs G-K MB200.

 

[Downunderwonder]

mb200 has a fan, but I've never heard mine.

 

[Downunderwonder]

Maybe your amp has a dud fan.

 

[JimmyM]

Fans. Pfffft.

 

[Lfsbera]

Hartke A70! Not too big, silent, and plenty of controls for helping you get the sound that you want! Just traded my small Roland for one and I´m amazed!

 

[joel406]

My practice amp is a computer with headphones. Dead silent to everyone else in the house.

 

[AMp'D.2play]

Assuming this isn't a troll post - quiet, home-use amp w/ a $3k budget?! - I'd suggest you get your amp checked.

The fan on myTH500 is as quiet as a whisper. My GK MB800 fan is more noticeable when it kicks on; but even then, I never hear it when I'm actually playing. Only if I'm sitting in my quiet practice room taking a pause while I read something.

 

[edencab]

Traynor Amps

done!.IMHO
lightweight, powerful as all hell, many many features, better and less $ than the GK, dead quiet fan, no hiss

 

[stigbeve]

I had some suggestions but they are all over three thousand dollars

 

[Passinwind]

Have an Aguilar TH500 but the fan seems to be very loud. Is there any amp that does not need fans? Anything below $3k is fine.

Acoustic Image, or many older G-Ks, tube amps (B-15?), etc etc. On that budget you could buy a nice old school convection cooled power amp and a killer tube preamp too. Old Haflers are pretty cheap and sound great.

Fans are absolutely unacceptable for playing at home as far as I'm concerned, so you are definitely not alone in your wants.

 

[tfer]

I had some suggestions but they are all over three thousand dollars

Exactly. Finding a 20-50w amp for less than $3K is next to impossible.

But, I'd be willing to help a brother and sell him my Ampeg B-108 for $2500. It's probably worth the whole $3K, but I'd feel like I was ripping him off - after all, it is used...

 

[Selta]

You're willing to spend up to $3k? I'd buy a Fractal Audio Axe-Fx XL+ [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]

 

[Plectrum72]

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Just within your budget.

 

[SamJ]

this ^^^^^^

 

[Skasteadyb]

I have an mb500 and also have never heard the fan

 

[jessicabass]

Traynor Amps

done!.IMHO
lightweight, powerful as all hell, many many features, better and less $ than the GK, dead quiet fan, no hiss

The sb110 is a hell of an amp!

 

[chris_b]

Both of my TH500 fans are noisy when they switch in. Doesn't bother me but I can see that they could annoy.

With that budget I'd look at the AER Amp One or Amp Two.

Beautiful sounding combos.

 

[darwin-bass]

I sold my TH-350 for exactly this reason. The fan, while quiet, was loud enough to be annoying. I replaced it with a Genz Benz (rip) Shuttle 3.0 which has no cooling fan.

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[Thumper19605]

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/amPlugBassG2

I love this for practice, mp3 player plugs right in.