The one with the wood case is an early seventies item and limited in power. Reasonable sounding, but not worth £500. I've had one.
The modern silver one is likely to fetch more than £500. It's a good amp, but again, lowish power output. Should be enough to drive your Ruarks though.
Have you had a look at this? http://theartofsound.net/forum/showt...alve-Amplifier
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
I don't think it's the same Onix, the OA21 was on the market half a lifetime ago.
The Onix Melody SP3 seems well enough liked. I've not heard one. You'd need to check output/input matching between it and the Nakamichi. There's always the volume control on the Onix to help though. Quite tempted by it myself actually, it looks like quite a lot of decent valve amp for the money.
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
Not so sure about valves, I do really like music to have that propulsive quality, like it rock basically, but Naim amps just too grey for me, especially now that I use a non suspended TT. A lot of people were using the old Naims with the old LP12s, which probably made them tolerable.
All my Naim stuff sold very well on Ebay, people can't get enough of it! Now using a Yamaha cheapie I had in my attic, its a tad dull, and pretty bad in just about every way. I'm still searching. Might just get a cheapie power amp for my Nak for the time being, seen a Rotel RB870BX on the bay, should go for - £100. Hopefully that'll satisfy until something decent turns up at the right price. So much Jap stuff I see on Ebay is set price and way too high, don't know why these people bother.
Spotted these earlier. Any good?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Exposure-...AAAOSw4PxaJVpt
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Quad-306-...wAAOSwYxBaL5K7
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!