Quote Originally Posted by jandl100 View Post
Ah, well, yes. My Firebottle AIR is one of the best amps I have heard and I would certainly recommend one. Alan is a very nice guy to deal with, as well.

My point was that, with the benefit of quite extensive experience of buying amps, price has very little to do with how much I enjoyed any particular amp.

The AIR cost me, used, £450. Money well spent. Very pleased with it still.
The max I've spent on an amp is £4k - MF F18. It was OK, nothing very special. It could get a good grip on the ML CLS2z stats I had at the time, so that was handy.
I bought an Amptastic Mini-T for £50 new. Fantastic sound - the first TA2020 class D I had heard, blew me away.
A pair of Jadis JA80 monos cost me about £3k, I think (long time ago). They were pretty good. A Lowther Club Jazz 6L6 valve amp cost me £300 not that long ago - fantastic, quite possibly the best valve amp I have heard. I wish I had kept the darn thing! (One of the very rare exceptions that I regret selling). Easily surpassed the Jadis, imo. At 1/10th the price. Didn't have as much power, though.
I've had some great amps at around the £1k mark, and some real duds that got moved on pronto.

etc etc ramble ramble ramble.

The point is, for me looking back I see very little correlation of enjoyment against amp cost.
Great amps high and low.
Poor (for me) amps, high and low.

The point I was attempting to make is that if you have the OP's £1k to spend, don't ignore something interesting at £300!
You're a man who's had a lot of experience so that bit of info is very telling.

Money doesn't equate to quality. I totally agree