TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted July 1, 2012 Report Share Posted July 1, 2012 So, last night my NAD amplifier bit the dust, well sort of blew up. Unfortunately this has left me without an amp to play CD's, records and music from my PC.What would people recommend I buy? My budget is probably around £200 max and I need something that I can put a CD player, turntable, PC and television through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted July 1, 2012 Report Share Posted July 1, 2012 eBay is strewn with hi fi separates. It's difficult to go wrong with an amp. Obviously if you spend loads more you can get a tube amp and get all kinds of wonderful sounds, but for £100-£200, an amp is essentially an amp, in my experience. The speakers are more important, in my personal opinion. I've gone through a few amps and never noticed as much of a shift in sound quality as I have when I bought some Mordaunt Short speakers. They just changed everything.Marantz and Denon are good brands to have a look for. I have a Yamaha amp and that's pretty great too. I tend to go second hand and go for older models, as quite alot of newer amps don't have phono inputs for turntables. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
free tibet Posted July 1, 2012 Report Share Posted July 1, 2012 Hey Jan I have an old technics amp in the loft you can have, its not a bad amp and has fuck loads of inputs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted July 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 1, 2012 Hey Jan I have an old technics amp in the loft you can have, its not a bad amp and has fuck loads of inputsThat would be absolutely amazing! Thanks so much, it would be great to tide me over.I am thinking that this amp would be good: http://www.whathifi.com/review/nad-c316bee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted July 1, 2012 Report Share Posted July 1, 2012 Does your turntable have a built in preamp?If not, that amp doesn't seem to have a phono stage, from what I can see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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