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<blockquote data-quote="Sheikh Yerbouti" data-source="post: 746728" data-attributes="member: 9093"><p>To be honest mate, for that sort of money, you'd be best off checking online & round your local hi-fi shops for something in the sale. Often you can get end of line models quite heavily discounted.</p><p></p><p>Rather than looking at features or sonic comparisons, you're probably best off just looking for the biggest discount off RRP you can get. Sound-wise, 100 quid amps will be much of a muchness.</p><p></p><p>I did a quick google of your speakers cos I don't know owt about them, but couldn't find anything, so will assume they are fairly run of the mill 100W (or thereabouts) at 8 Ohm HiFi Speakers...</p><p></p><p>My advice on choosing an amp would be as follows...</p><p></p><p>- Look at RMS output power (don't be fooled by "peak power" figures they are meaningless). Higher RMS power output is a good thing. You are more likely to blow speakers with an underpowered amp than with an overpowered one. Personally, 40W RMS would be the absolute minimum I'd look at. In an ideal world, your amp should be slightly higher rated than your speakers... (40W speakers driven by a 60W amp etc). If your speakers are rated significantly higher than your amp (200W speakers on a 20W amp, say) then you'll risk damaging your speakers to get any kind of volume out of them.</p><p></p><p>- I personally like tone controls on an amp. Not all have them, and it goes against all the HiFi purist arguments, but they are useful. nothing worse than wanting to tweak the EQ on a track to your taste and being unable to do so.</p><p></p><p>- If your speakers are bi-wire-able (each one has 2 sets of terminals on the back) then it's a bonus if you can get an amp with 2 sets of speaker outputs (cable one set of terminals on the speakers to each set of speaker out terminals on the amp, and switch the amp to drive both sets of outputs). Takes double the cable, but makes better use of the amp & will in theory improve the sound.</p><p></p><p>Those are the most important features on a budget amp IMO, you may or may not get all of them depending on what you can find in the sales. It wouldn't surprise me if you see summat like an end of line Marantz reduced from 250 or so to around 100 quid, in which case you'll do fine <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/classics/thumbsup.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":thumbsup:" title="thumbs up :thumbsup:" data-shortname=":thumbsup:" /></p><p></p><p>For the record (soz for the long post) <a href="http://www.richersounds.com/showproduct.php?cda=showproduct&pid=CAMB-A5BLK">here's</a> the Cambridge Audio one I use for my decks. It's nothing special, but 60W is reasonable, it's OK to look at, and decent for the money. Have a measure up for how much speaker cable you need, and if you do go in to Richer Sounds it's always worth having a bit of a haggle with them. Quite often they'll throw in a bit of speaker cable or summat if it will swing a sale, and better speaker cable is a useful upgrade (depending on what you've got already).</p><p></p><p>Hope that helps, good luck, and I'll be interested to hear about what you get!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sheikh Yerbouti, post: 746728, member: 9093"] To be honest mate, for that sort of money, you'd be best off checking online & round your local hi-fi shops for something in the sale. Often you can get end of line models quite heavily discounted. Rather than looking at features or sonic comparisons, you're probably best off just looking for the biggest discount off RRP you can get. Sound-wise, 100 quid amps will be much of a muchness. I did a quick google of your speakers cos I don't know owt about them, but couldn't find anything, so will assume they are fairly run of the mill 100W (or thereabouts) at 8 Ohm HiFi Speakers... My advice on choosing an amp would be as follows... - Look at RMS output power (don't be fooled by "peak power" figures they are meaningless). Higher RMS power output is a good thing. You are more likely to blow speakers with an underpowered amp than with an overpowered one. Personally, 40W RMS would be the absolute minimum I'd look at. In an ideal world, your amp should be slightly higher rated than your speakers... (40W speakers driven by a 60W amp etc). If your speakers are rated significantly higher than your amp (200W speakers on a 20W amp, say) then you'll risk damaging your speakers to get any kind of volume out of them. - I personally like tone controls on an amp. Not all have them, and it goes against all the HiFi purist arguments, but they are useful. nothing worse than wanting to tweak the EQ on a track to your taste and being unable to do so. - If your speakers are bi-wire-able (each one has 2 sets of terminals on the back) then it's a bonus if you can get an amp with 2 sets of speaker outputs (cable one set of terminals on the speakers to each set of speaker out terminals on the amp, and switch the amp to drive both sets of outputs). Takes double the cable, but makes better use of the amp & will in theory improve the sound. Those are the most important features on a budget amp IMO, you may or may not get all of them depending on what you can find in the sales. It wouldn't surprise me if you see summat like an end of line Marantz reduced from 250 or so to around 100 quid, in which case you'll do fine :thumbsup: For the record (soz for the long post) [url=http://www.richersounds.com/showproduct.php?cda=showproduct&pid=CAMB-A5BLK]here's[/url] the Cambridge Audio one I use for my decks. It's nothing special, but 60W is reasonable, it's OK to look at, and decent for the money. Have a measure up for how much speaker cable you need, and if you do go in to Richer Sounds it's always worth having a bit of a haggle with them. Quite often they'll throw in a bit of speaker cable or summat if it will swing a sale, and better speaker cable is a useful upgrade (depending on what you've got already). Hope that helps, good luck, and I'll be interested to hear about what you get! [/QUOTE]
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