Best - A little Alientek D8 'Direct Digital' amp with xmos USB input and STA326 for it's heart. This cost just £80 and, when playing well recorded and simple acoustical music , can still make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Thoroughly enjoyable but after many years of pleasure it is becoming unreliable now. Also a budget 10W per channel Audio Innovations integrated valve amp which was simply magic compared to anything at 3x the price.
Worst VFM- Probably an SME V tone arm for my record deck. Not that it wasn't a really good tone arm but allowing for inflation it would cost £6000 in today's money. Also a big Rotel 6 channel power amp which despite it's claimed 60Wper channel was completely lacking in dynamics compared to the above 10W valve amp.
Worst VFM- Probably an SME V tone arm for my record deck. Not that it wasn't a really good tone arm but allowing for inflation it would cost £6000 in today's money. Also a big Rotel 6 channel power amp which despite it's claimed 60Wper channel was completely lacking in dynamics compared to the above 10W valve amp.
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