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Malcolm H typed:

Forget about valve amps, they are for dinosaurs!

Take a look at
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?...O&U=Templat e

For £100 you get 2x 50w rms 20Hz to 20KHz s/n 98dB


There's lots of solid state amps on the consumer marketplace around that
price range with similar performance. For example:
http://www.avland.co.uk/pioneer/a109/index.htm

DIN S/N not so good, but even so you could probably pin your ears to the
speaker and barely hear anything. The 20Hz-100KHz +- 3dB might be useful for
keeping any passing bats entertained, if there were any loudspeakers that
could radiate over that range.

BTW, I built quite a few valve amps when there was no alternative. I enjoyed
the construction, the sound, the romance of those glowing cathodes. However,
solid state amps also sound great to me and so that is what I have now.

Jo