£200/$250 amp recommendations?

[x Princess Leliana x]

So I'm looking to upgrade from a denon pma-520AE to something with the above budget, needs are an optical in (for my PC) and ideally a phono stage, but that isn't essential. 

 

"Loudness" is another nice feature to have since I heavily listen to low volumes, but I can also just get an equaliser to combat this. 

 

Ideally I'd get a peachtree audio decco 2 but they are extremely hard to track down here in the UK, so I want to get some other ideas going.

[Derkoli]

On 2/9/2020 at 4:15 PM, x Princess Leliana x said:

So I'm looking to upgrade from a denon pma-520AE to something with the above budget, needs are an optical in (for my PC) and ideally a phono stage, but that isn't essential. 

 

"Loudness" is another nice feature to have since I heavily listen to low volumes, but I can also just get an equaliser to combat this. 

 

Ideally I'd get a peachtree audio decco 2 but they are extremely hard to track down here in the UK, so I want to get some other ideas going.

If you could stretch the budget to £225, then a Yamaha AS301 would fit the bill perfectly.

 

Phono input, SPDIF/Optical input, loudness control and of course has Yamaha quality.

 

https://www.richersounds.com/hi-fi/amplifiers-receivers/yamaha-as301-blk-sos.html

[x Princess Leliana x]

On 2/23/2020 at 8:54 PM, Derkoli said:

If you could stretch the budget to £225, then a Yamaha AS301 would fit the bill perfectly.

 

Phono input, SPDIF/Optical input, loudness control and of course has Yamaha quality.

 

https://www.richersounds.com/hi-fi/amplifiers-receivers/yamaha-as301-blk-sos.html

Yeah I've been browsing local stores and classifieds and the yammys are now top priority, though its the 501 not the 301 on my list!

[x Princess Leliana x]

Well scratch all that, A marantz pm6005 came up for less than $200 so I just got that hahaha