"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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In article , JustMe
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"Keith G" wrote in message
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"JustMe" wrote


Just one problem. It's boring to listen to.

Looking at a piece of glass can be boring as well. Although I suppose this
depends upon whether you prefer to look at a bit of stained glass or
*through* a window at the scene beyond. :-)

FWIW I use audio equipment to listen to music, speech, films, etc, and
hence don't really want to get the impression that I can 'hear the amp' at
all. However your choice is your decision, not mine. :-)

Well, some would argue that this is the be all and end all of hifi. I'd
argue, as Mike said, that "it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that
swing". I spent the money on the gear to get the maximum pleasure from
my music. If a "straight wire with gain" wont give me that, then a curly
wire with gain will provide me with better value for money.

Fairy snuff.

I've had a couple of valve amps - an Armstrong

Which one?

Looking at the pics on your Armstrong site - it brought back all sorts of
memories and smells - the 222 looks right. I also had a receiver from the
same range - the one on the top left of the "200ads.jpeg" image also
matches.

The amp belonged to my granddad and the receiver to my dad. The receiver was
originally built into a large wooden cabinet, with a Garrard SP25ii
turntable fitted into a cut-out on the top. Both were used with, I think,
Goodmans Sandwich (?) speakers and came bundled with an 8 track recorder
with two cartridges - The Carpenters and Zager and Evans )

I used to have trouble getting hold of the proper two-pin speaker plugs for
the amps and often used to push bare wire into the sockets and blu-tac them
in place - I was young! Used them with all sorts of speakers - and speaker
combinations - and gave them incredible abuse (both in terms of dragging
them around and in how I hooked up the outputs to various combinations of
totally inappropriate speakers in ways that would quickly damage most amps
that I own today - or trigger some sort of protection).

Never once did they fail.

In the end I sold them. Thinking about that now, I wish I hadn't.