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I will be honest up front - whilst I may think I am an audiophile I am not 😆
I need to replace a rather aging Sony amp with something more modern. The rest of my separates seems to have become redundant since iTunes etc 🙄
Just after something to take a feed from my iMac and to power my little mission bookshelf speakers.
Budget is a finger in the air £150 ish.
Any recommendations of brands/models to look for or avoid?
Also if you think I would be better off saving a bit more cash to up my budget do say as I plan on keeping the amp until it dies 🙂
There is not a lot of point spending a lot of money on an amp that will only be given a low quality mp3's from mac signal for it to power some small bookcase style speakers.
Unless you intend in future to upgrade the speakers and use it with a decent cd player or vinyl deck then something like this would more than suffice:-
or
http://www.richersounds.com/product/amplifiers-receivers/cambridge-audio/a1-version-3/camb-a1v3-blk
I'd pick up something like [url= http://www.richersounds.com/product/mini-hifi-systems/onkyo/cr435/onky-cr435-blk ]this Onkyo[/url] then you can listen to radio (including DAB) as well if you wanted.
I actually have a similar Denon one at home with an unreliable CD player (everything else works fine) that's going spare - you can have it for a donation to RUSS or Alzheimers Society.
Thanks guys.
Don't consider whats in my iTunes to be of a low quality 😕
Plan would be to still allow for a feed from my CD deck in the future.
cambridge a1 mk3, as linked to above. Have one and am using similar to you - though a feed from the iphone, and from a CD player.
Fantastic amp
a t-amp with built in dac.
[url= http://www.templeaudio.net/bantamusb.html ]http://www.templeaudio.net/bantamusb.html[/url]
there are other manufacturers out there doing similar products.
Cambridge, Marantz, Yamaha or Rotel (2nd hand).