T5 Infinium 5-watt Class-A Tube Head

My favorite amp head I’ve ever had. From the first time many many years ago I bought this amp put it in the combo form. After owning several black stars a tiny terror on Marshall and other amps I bought this to use with my cab and this is absolutely my favorite app of all the a.m. so I’ve had After owning several black stars a tiny terror on Marshall and other amps I bought this to use with my cab and this is absolutely my favorite app of all the amps I’ve had. It’s simple but it takes pedals amazingly I didn’t use the lake paddles until I tried some with this and it’s not going to be a metal lamp but it’s self but all you have to do is add a little tube screamer or something and this amp can do anything. Very low on wanted noise levels and the power attenuator is great to have. On full 5 watts with high gain the volume could literally blow your ears out could literally blow your ears out. By it self with full gain it all have an amazing bluesy crunch and on half gay and it just sounds fantastic by itself too. Designed and engineered in Germany. For the price and quality this is great. Even for a higher price it would be worth it. Has everything you need. Just use a nice cab/speaker and it will sound amazing.

I have read other review about bugera (yes they had problems when they first started) I wanted a "PRACTISE" amp not one to take on stage. Although I would not be ashamed to ! this is my third Bugera I have two Bugera G5 Infinium 5-watt Class-A Tube Heads, running in stereo to two 4x12,s. one bugera cab 16 ohms Total and one into the despised line 6 cab at 16 oms (not exactly the proper match) and i love the different voicings from two cabs that you can buy used for a $ 100.00 us. and the 2 line 6 cabs i have ,both have "Celestian seventy/80 eighty watt 16 ohm speakers in them. now, this little jewel, that produces awsome tone @ 4 ohms out to one of my line 6 cabs that i rewired for 4ohm mono 16 ohm mono or 8 in stereo. maybe i just dont hear the bad stuff everybody talks about. but i know with this little guy the 5 watt setting is extremely loud for 5 watts. there is no lack of top or bottom end. Hello, for 99.00 i just paid for this,I can not even buy a build your own tube amp kit that is half as good for 215.00 not to mention auto biasing. I know people cringe when i tell them i use line 6 cabs....LOL>> but , Again I can not buy a sheet of baltic birch and build my box for under a 100.00 then you have speakers,tolex,castors,hardware,jack plate, bottom line I know how to use an EQ if it warrants. thus far not needed, Buy one !! the prices are going up, go to you tube and check out reviews, almost every popular channel to us guitarists that was bashing bugera is now singing thier praises.

I'm comparing this to my little smoked Epiphone junior amp also running a 12ax7 and ecc83. Sound very similar but only 1/2 the volume compared to the Epiphone on full 5W setting. It looks awesome like a 1950 toaster. Running into my frankenstein 1970 Audioanalyst speaker cab it is really quiet going into a 4 ohm 12 inch weber. It screams going into a 4 inch. You can remedy the volume putting a distortion pedal in front then it will be good for playing in the house and not pissing anyone off unless sleeping. Reverb is very good and not over the top. If I could, I'd go back in time and get another $99 Epiphone but this is pretty nice for a tiny practice amp. I will have to try out swapping the tubes with ruby old school and tung sols to see if they stocked it with crappy ones. update-I have swapped out the tubes for a ruby and tung sol and it is a tiny bit louder. I'm quite pleased with it. I don't play clean anyway so it can scream decently with a distortion and wah in the front. It can do a decent screamy job too if gain and volume all the way up with phat switch on going into a 12 inch speaker. Another update-it is quite a bit louder going into my cheap Fender 4 ohm 4x12 cab for some reason but what am I gonna do? I want to run it into a 1x12 portable. I don't know why but it hates the Weber 4 ohm 12 inch single speaker. Not much volume at all. I have since gotten an Orange Micro Dark and damn this one is SO much louder and and SO much more gain. Super happy with the Orange for a little more $.

I bought this as a bedroom amp and paired it with the recommended vintage 30 1x12 cab. The great thing about it is that you can crank the amp and still have a reasonable volume. I haven't messed with pedals because I have other amps with effect loops. Going straight into the amp you get great clean tones up to a really nice dirty but not too distorted tone that a lot of people are looking for. It doesn't have enough gain on it's own for metal in my opinion, but like I said, I haven't put pedals into it. If you're using headphones make sure you have some that are high quality enough. I use a $50 pair of AKG headphones and there's breakup and a generally noticeable reduction in sound quality compared to the Celestion. I bought JJ tubes as replacements when I ordered it but I haven't put them in because the stock ones sound fantastic. 100% recommended. I also have a V22 combo and this has a very different character. I'm impressed enough that I might buy a G series from them too.

I am getting back into playing music, this time for pleasure, after fifty years of not playing. It's sort of one of the things I plan to do when I retire in a few years. Anyway, I bought the T5 to replace a Vox modeling amp; not that there was anything wrong with the Vox but no matter how many times I try, I cannot live with a solid state amp for any length of time. I had thought that it wouldn't matter and that time would have made solid state better, but no, I still long for the sound of tubes. The Bugera has several things going for it: 1) it's beautiful to look at, 2) it offers multiple output settings so I can play without bothering my neighbors, 3) it uses just two tubes (12AX7 and EL84), and 4) it's cheap! I paired it with a Fender 1x12 cab and it sounds great, even at 0.1watt. Does it sound as good as my Orange TremLord 30? No, but it's less than a quarter of the price and will be far cheaper to operate. Call me a happy camper!

Overall, I think this a great practice amp but I think they could do better with their selection of components. After nine months of using it once or twice a week it started to snap crackle and pop. Easy enough to diagnose that it was a faulty EL34 power tube. Not wanting to make a warranty claim, but wanting to verify that was the problem I ordered a new tube and problem solved. So, I contacted the Bugera company filling out all of the information they needed, told them the fix, asked if they were having problems with these tubes, and asking if I could at least get compensated for the price of the tube. The response was “Well tubes need to be replaced when they go bad”. I do not know where they source their tubes, and over the years I have replaced many in my other amps, but not after limited use.

Love this likely amp for home use/ practice and just messing around. The attenuator is a nice feature to experiment with high gain without annoying the family. Great clean tones . Reverb is a nice feature on a small tube amp and it’s pretty solid. I have it running through a 1X12 Fender (Super Champ XD) cabinet. Sweetwater is an awesome music store. This is the first time I bought through Sweetwater on Amazon. No complaints there either.

When this amp worked it sounded great. I've had it for about 4 months and the amp shuts down after about ten minutes of use. I've contacted Bugera Support three times with no response. Great Amp for the price but when something goes wrong you will wish you had purchased something else.