Re: Integrated amplifier upgrade advice/suggestions

Keith G wrote: 


I totally agree with Eric Barbour, who stated that many
CD player/SS amp/speaker combinations sound as if
they were designed to strip paint off walls, not for the
reproduction of  music.




Marshalls do a good line in valve amps designed to do *just that*...!!! ;-)



Not at all, to strip paint you would use a Peavy SS guitar amp (maybe showing age here). A Marshall *would* take the plaster off the walls though.

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Nick
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