Re: The Audiophoolery Thread.
On the subject of a "nothing special" amplifier sounding good and thereby being dressed up and sold for a high price...
Not so long ago I was given an Am$trad tower system with speakers, the whole thing was tatty and rough having been in a shed for years.
I salvaged the cassette deck for parts, The BSR turntable was the cheapest most plastic grotty thing I have ever seen so that went in the bin with the rest of it!
The speaker cabinets were the ones with the flashing LEDs on them and in what I now know to be the best assembly method were of course glued together.
When I broke them apart I found they were fitted with Celestion speakers.
I was very surprised to find that! I expected Alan would have specified the cheapest grot he could have got his hands on!
So maybe that is the secret of good sound - Good speakers and you can get away with murder (to a degree) as far as the amp is concerned... I regret now not testing the thing to see how much that deck rumbled!
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