"TonyL" wrote in message
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I have a couple of elderly Wharfedale speaker units, originally bought as
kits. Since popping one of the 12" bass drivers they have been in
retirement
but I recently replaced them with some generic 12" units and they sound
OK,
considering their age. I want to use them as super duper PC speakers and
need an amplifier to drive them from the line level output of my Creative
Soundblaster card. The advice of you pundits would be appreciated.

I'm guessing around 50 W per channel. No frills, just low THD, low noise,
cheap, flat response. I'm prepared to build stuff so long as the component
count is low... monolithic amp modules, perhaps ?

What about something like this ?
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?...5& doy=search

That tempts me because I happen to have a 20A 13.8 V power supply lying
around.

You can probably run it off of the extra amps in the 12 volt power supply of
your PC, provided you modify the remote power-on line so that it comes on
after the PC has had a chance to stabilize.