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    My advice - sell your wife and buy the Audiolab!!!
    
    That's the only one I've got experience of because that's the one I
    have, but I'm very happy with it. I replaced an A&R A60 with the 8000A
    when I moved to a larger room and was very pleasantly surprised by the
    overall improvement in sound (even better than the demo). It also looks
    good and is very solidly made. 

    Thanks but I'm happy married... The equipment tower is part of a
    larger furniture, and of course, everything matches in the room
    (it is a 15'x19' which improved the quality sound got in our previous
    home, even with the SANSUI). It's a pitti but that amp doesn't fit
    at all (why aren't according to "standards" ???).
    
    Any other idea ?
    
    Thanks
    Jose

    
    
    Not sure about the Head Phones socket but why bother when you can
    annoy the neighbours. QUAD is the one your after, meets all requirements
    exept possibly head phones. 306 turns out 55 watts and the 606 over
    100 (i think....but the 606 maybe a bit expensive)
    
    
    
    		Grub.....

    I have a SANSUi AU-G11X what do you all think of this amp?

    I have heard rumors of late of a new Linn amp, suposedly called
    the "Intek" ...suposed to sell for around �500 quid...
    
    Anyone know anything about it...Does it exist, or is it yet another
    myth of a product from Linn....?
    
    Juju
    xxxx
    
    By the way, I am bearing in mind the comment by Linns designer,
    Mr Dalgleish, who says Linn are trying to make a Linn "system" more
    affordable to the individual, following on from the launch of the
    basik turntable. This is why I am led to believe an integrated amp
    is a poszsibility. 
    
    I have not read any magazines except What Hi-Fi of late, so if someone
    more informed would care to inform....
    
    

    .....although I haven't heard or seen it. I think HFR may have reviewed
    it, if they haven't I'm sure it won't be long before they do.
    
    If it's built to the same standard as the LK1/LK280, it'll be superb.
    
    Dave

    Do the Linn amps actually sound that good ? I cannot remember hearing
    much in the way of complimentary reviews of them, and word of mouth
    was that they were "nothing special".
    
    Any Lk owners wish to correct me ?
    
    Juju
    xxxx
    

    The latest revision LK amps don't sound of anything. They just
    disappear. I was in the market for a Naim NAP250 to upgrade my 140, or
    to ditch my Naim amps and buy the Linn (about �200 less, nett cost);
    I'd already borrowed a 250 so I knew it would deliver what I wanted,
    but to check out the options I borrowed a dem set of Linn amps.
    
    I had a list of tracks I wanted to use as audition material, but time
    and again I found myself just listening to a whole side, or album even.
    That convinced me. You could say it's midrange was clear, treble sweet,
    etc., but for me the way it made me just sit, listen and enjoy was the
    crunch. The LK280 also goes *loud* without the sound stage
    disintegrating or getting hard, or bright; the volume control is just
    the zoom control on a camera - just choose what row you want to sit
    in....
    
    Don't believe all you read in HiFi Review (Malcolm Steward doesn't work
    there anymore)! True, early models did sound flat and veiled; the
    latest revisions definitely do not, although getting the best out of
    them requires a little effort with interconnect directionality - which
    may be why reviews differ so much.
    
    Source quality is all-important if any amp is to give its best, of
    course.
    
    Build quality is superb and should carry over to the Intek.
    
    The moral? Listen before you buy.
    
    Dave

Steve Bright who used to work in Digital as a contractor had LK amps.

I liked them, although I haven't had the chance to compare them with a well
known Naim yet.

Mark.