"Keith G" wrote in
:

The place to start is with any reasonable amp (begged, borrowed or
stolen) of not less than, say, 30 wpc possibly from eBay (there's
plenty of people here who will advise if candidates are chosen) and
try and find the best speaker match to the room. Bass is usually the
let-down - people think they need lots of it and usually end up
muddying the overall sound picture with 'room boom' &c.


Yes, don't get caught up with bigger is better - it may not be.

On eBay right now there are 678 amplifiers, the first one I have had
experience of is this one:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Cambridge-Audi...lifier_W0QQite
mZ5861343993QQcategoryZ3280QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

and I would recommend it to anyone starting the whole selection
process. It's a fine little amp, if not broken, IMO...

YES - I will agree with Keith here. I started out 4 years ago with an amp
very similar to that from Cambridge and very nice it was too. I had it for
a year then 'upgraded' - I am still upgrading and still searching!


This one:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...343175&fromMak
eTrack=true

I will BUY, if the price stays anywhere like it atm!!

(In fact I am now the current high bidder, so I hope no-one here does
the dirty on me!! ;-)

Class A? I had better bid on it ;-P

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Cessna172

"Cessna172" wrote in message
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"Keith G" wrote in
:

The place to start is with any reasonable amp (begged, borrowed or
stolen) of not less than, say, 30 wpc possibly from eBay (there's
plenty of people here who will advise if candidates are chosen) and
try and find the best speaker match to the room. Bass is usually the
let-down - people think they need lots of it and usually end up
muddying the overall sound picture with 'room boom' &c.


Yes, don't get caught up with bigger is better - it may not be.

On eBay right now there are 678 amplifiers, the first one I have had
experience of is this one:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Cambridge-Audi...lifier_W0QQite
mZ5861343993QQcategoryZ3280QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

and I would recommend it to anyone starting the whole selection
process. It's a fine little amp, if not broken, IMO...

YES - I will agree with Keith here. I started out 4 years ago with an amp
very similar to that from Cambridge and very nice it was too. I had it for
a year then 'upgraded' - I am still upgrading and still searching!


'Sidegrading', it's called....

;-)




This one:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...343175&fromMak
eTrack=true

I will BUY, if the price stays anywhere like it atm!!

(In fact I am now the current high bidder, so I hope no-one here does
the dirty on me!! ;-)

Class A? I had better bid on it ;-P



Too late - that one's history, it'll go well over a hundred by the time it's
done, I should think.....

I thought the poor cosmetics would keep the price down, but not the case it
would seem.(I'm sure I've bought from that seller before...???) I do want to
run Class A SS up against valves to see if there are similarities, but I
want to do it for 'nowt' - I don't think I'm going to get a Sugden for
peanuts though.......

(There *is* another.... ;-)