Gordon MacPherson wrote:

Thnking about replacing my very old Cambdge amp and Ditton 44 speakers. Up
to around £1500 to play with. Thinking about the B&W 863 speakers and no
idea about an amp. Thoughts please

B&W good, or something from the likes of Monitor Audio. Also worth
looking at the Mordaunt-Short Avant 908i at £500. These have a matching
centre and bipolar rears available if you want to go to 5.1/7.1 at a
later date.

Amp... something from Arcam, A70 or A90.

Don't forget some decent speaker cable - opinions are divided on this
group but it does make a difference. Audio Innovations Silver Bi-wire at
£5/metre is good, or if you can run to it Chord Rumour 4 at £20/metre.
I've used both, had the AI stuff originally and upgraded to the Rumour 4
when I got the Arcam AVR250 amp.

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