Bugera V5 Infinium

Sound: Surprisingly good! Not noisy at all. Maybe a bit too warm on its own, depends on what you need - i.e. it can feel a bit much in the low mids, darkish, boxy sounding. I mainly use it for cleans, clean /w a bit of break-up and for that that's fine and joyful to play. An eq pedal, or a clean boost with an eq does wonders to it. That said, it takes pedals really reaaally well - fuzz, delays, reverbs, you name it. For ambient stuff with a few external pedals, it's a - chefkiss goes here - pure fun. Would record with it no problem.

Quality: Not great, not terrible - justifies the price. The first one I shipped back as it had white moldish spots on the insides. To be frank, it was a b-stock and it didn't have the silca gel pack when I opened it so, could be due to that. Got a replacement one, and it was fine, however I needed to wipe it clean to remove that residual layer that started accumulating on the insides. Could be because of the way the wood is (un) treated, or how it was stored? Either way, all good with this one now. Controls are sturdy, the front looks nice.

Features: Phones out is not the best, but useful. The built in spring reverb is okay, distorts pretty easily tho. The built in attenuator is why I bought it in the first place and it's the way to go! Handy if you want a little all tube amp tailored for the apartment life. Should be a good modding platform too - swapping tubes or the speaker looks easy enough.

Summary: This turned out to be a price-worthy buy. It's a very warm sounding, compact all tube amp. Love playing it - messing with it on its own or with a few pedals for some soundscape-y sessions. It's a keeper.

Bought the V5 to use with my Peerless Monarch (with floating Zoller pu) for practise, recording and small gigs. Out of the box the amp sounds great - tone & clarity is bang on, gives a good approximation of that Kenny Burrell Midnight Blue sound with the Monarch. Controls are straight forward - gain (push this to get a nice broken crunch for a more bluesy sound), volume, tone (basically adds/cuts treble) & reverb. Reverb is digital & gives a fairly good spring reverb sound. Volume is impressive & with the open back you get that nice wash of sound from the amp. The power attenuator allows to switch between 0.5/1/5 watt settings which obviously impacts on volume but also gives another paramemter to play around with for getting different sounds - particularly around using the gain setting. Also has a headphone output - but I find that it gives a fairly thin sound when used. Overall - a great little valve amp that packs a punch volume wise and gives a great jazz feel.

I was looking for my first tube amp, mainly for home use . I have Mustang LT25, and I narrowed the decision to 3 amps (v5, HB tube15 and Blackstar HT5) and decided to this amp because of the 0.1W option on power attenuator and the price.
And I made great decision,
This amp is loud for home use.
Clean tone is perfect, i love it.
It’s incomparable to LT25. Now I understand what tube amp really means :)
Its a great amp for pedal platform
And, it looks amazing.

Doesn't have a lot of features, but i don't mind.
I love simplicity.

5 stars to Thomann, as always

A great little amp. You'd be surprised how loud this is - on the 1 watt setting with some distortion it's still wall-shaking . I would say this is the ideal candidate if you want a low wattage tube amp for recording and home practice. Don't be put off by the fact that Bugera is owned by Behringer - this is one solid piece of kit. The controls are incredibly simple - just gain, tone, volume and reverb. The digital spring reverb can get a bit silly once you begin to crank it but there's still a very usable range - I leave it around 2 or 3 and it sounds just fine - I don't feel the need to get a reverb pedal. With comparable tube amps I've found the clean tone very lacking e.g. in the Blackstar HT1, but not here. This is definitely not a high gain amp - if that's what you need it for I'd advise either looking elsewhere OR putting a boost or 2 in front of this amp. I prefer getting my dirt from pedals so this was a godsend. One word of warning - this amp is very dark, especially on the wattage attenuated settings (1 watt and 1/2 watt). There's a surprising amount of bass for such a small speaker. I counteract this by using a Boss BD2 as a treble booster. It's definitely not a deal breaker though. The headphone output is useful and I've tried it out a few times, but don't expect anything too good - like most I've tried the sound is a bit distorted and harsh. All in all I heavily recommend this amp - it has all the quality of a Fender, Blackstar or Marshall for a fraction of the price

I bought this amp for our group rehearsals and to play at home. The amp is lovely to hear your guitar - nice tube sound. The overdrive sound is a bit too sharp for my taste, not the rolling warm sound I love. The limit of the 5 Watts shows when you play with band and you want a clean sound. Then you need to turn your gain down and the amp is not loud enough. So the amp is good to play at home or if you always play distorted in a not so loud band. My solution was in the end to buy an Egnater Rebel 20 with the Egnater 112x speaker. I need this because I need to fall in love with my guitar sound (and the others should as well). The V5 is good if you need to hear you guitar without big expectations of a top professional sound.