[ILUG-Social] amps...

[Smith, Graham - Computing Technician]

Mmm cloney audio.. *drool*

they got some nice stuff...
no lifestyle stuff - B&O stuff
and all that looks nice, but
nowhere near as good a sound
quality as seperates. 

We've a few (quite old) B&O things at home.
They're based on phillips components internally
which have been tweaked for better
sound and so on. They're very fragile
though. And ridiculously expensive
to get repaired. They do look very nice 
but given the choice i'd rather seperates.

ok i'm waffling - check out Creek - they used
to do some very small amps for relatively
reasonable price. On a slightly different
approach you could check out active speakers
- ie: speakers with in-built amplification.

G.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Liam Bedford [mailto:lbedford at lbedford.org]
Sent: 04 April 2002 10:26
To: social at linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG-Social] amps...


On Thu, 4 Apr 2002 10:44:52 +0200
David Neary <bolsh at gimp.org> blurted in message
20020404104452.B11865 at wanadoo.fr:

> kevin lyda wrote:
> > have i asked about this already?  i'm looking for a place that sells
> > small amplifiers.  something similar in size to the slimp3.
> 
Try Richer Sounds? What kind of amp, and what for? I've never heard of the
slimp3..

(just googled for it, and it looks kinda small alright)... do you want a
hifi quality amp, or just something reasonable? Does it have to look good?

greenweld might have something (www.greenweld.co.uk) or try Maplins for
all the parts <g>

> B&O on the North Quays (Bachelor's Walk, maybe?) have some pretty 
> cool stuff, 
I know Kevin's loaded with VA Linux shares, but Bang & Olufsen???
>and there's a place opposite Aungier St. DIT which 
> also has lots of arty looking expensive slimline audio equipment. 
DubLinn HiFi... again, for the people to whom putting down 12K on a CD
player makes sense...> For functional, but not necessarily small, Richer
Sounds is pretty > good - back in the less central location on the south
Quays> between the Ha'Penny Bridge and Parliament St.
>
There's also all the smaller places (HiFi corner, Roberts (nasty icky
place), Cloney Audio in Blackrock). Problem will be if you want small,
you're into serious lifestyle stuff, and it's seriously expensive normally.

L.
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