RE: Amplifier and Speakers

["Tawn, Jonathan" <jonathan.tawn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, I use an old Marantz (how poor do I feel when you can use Linn for
your kitchen!!!... he he !!) for my bathroom / study type of place.

I bought it 2nd hand with 2x dodgy inputs (phono and tape) and paid a
whopping =A310 for it - admittedly, it wont win any awards on aesthetics,
b=
ut
stuck in a cupboard with a remote volume switch thing on the wall, nice !

JT
Jonathan Tawn
EDS Desktop Services.


-----Original Message-----
From:	Mark Harrison (Yahoo!) [mailto:mph@xxxxxxx]
Sent:	Friday, 19 March, 2004 13:15
To:	ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject:	Re: [ukha_d] Amplifier and Speakers

Personally, I have a Linn set up in the kitchen, driven by a
Rio Receiver as
the source, so I don't think that the Richer Sounds route is
overkill at
all.

However, I fully endorse the "second-hand hifi is fantastic"
value line.
Most of the hi-fi in my house is second-hand / ex-demo /
previously owned /
insert eumphemism here.

Second-hand speakers are particularly good, since you can
generally tell on
a very quick demo whether they work or not - 99% of failure
modes are
immediately obvious.

Amps are almost as good. If you're realistically going
single-source, then
you can pick up a bargain with "one or two inputs broken"
provided one of
them is still good.

CDs / DVDs are the most dodgy - moving parts =3D things to go
wrong... and
they can have complex failure modes that you don't spot
until too late :-(

M.

----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Tawn, Jonathan" <jonathan.tawn@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 10:27 AM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Amplifier and Speakers


Hi Nick,

What are your thoughts on using a 2nd hand amp ?

Jonathan Tawn
EDS Desktop Services.