"SteveAl" wrote in message
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I'm 'doing up' my office. Part of the deal with my wife is that I can
install a music system and therefore keep out of the living room even
more...
The last time I ventured into 'Hi-Fi' I bought an AVI CD/amp with Ruark
Talisman speakers. This has served us well for 10 or so years (and
continues to do so in the lounge).

I got all enthused about a pleasant, low key system to play mainly
accoustic folk and classical music. I read a few newsgroups and
magazines and they lead me, right or wrong, to buy a chinese valve amp
on Ebay. It's a single-ended 300B job, which I haven't received yet.

I'd like to build some horn-loaded speakers in the not too distant
future, but for now I'd like to buy a suitable, inexpensive pair of
used speakers (Ebay?). Can anyone suggest a suitable pair for a 9
watt/channel amp in my 17ft X 11ft room?

The other component I need is a CD player. I guess I could buy
something new like a Cambridge Azur job (or perhaps Arcam CD 73), but I
was wondering if used CD players of a slightly higher quality are a
sensible buy? Names like Cyrus, Naim, Marantz drift in from the mists
of time...

Any help with these would be appreciated.


Hmm...

Chinese 300B SET and Horns? You'll be smoking, riding motorbikes and
drinking out of dirty glasses next....

OK, you missed the mint Marantz KI Sig CDP which went for a bargain price
recently, but I got a pair of very nice pair of *as new* Fostex FE206Es on
eBay right now with a Reserve set at about half Retail.....

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...e=STRK:MESE:IT

.....and I've got a nice pair of Tannoy 609s (on their own stands) which I
wuz going to plunder for the drivers but decided against it! (Too nice to
vandalise, so I got a pair of Lowthers instead....!! :-) They will probably
be going on eBay soon, unless....??

They would do you very nicely until you got your horns built - so close to
Buschhorns it's hard to split them!! If they interest you email me direct
for a deep and meaningful!

Otherwise, go scrute my site:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/

and heed the warnings therein contained...!! ;-)