truth or beauty? beauty all the way

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Diapason
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Re: truth or beauty? beauty all the way

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Dunno the exact level, but it's basically in the "replace speakers on TV with something a bit better that can play some music too" ballpark. Budget roughly zero, give or take a few quid.
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I lit on this one before I picked the av amp...

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.vi ... 0899995965

It's the only reasonable one I could find with a remote control option

the " use the tv as a preamp" headphone output to amp method is, to be generous sub-optimal!
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Interesting. Did you drive speakers with it? Were they uber high efficiency?
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I drove a pair of monitor audio bookshelves, it could drive the SAs too...
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