Thank you Macca, for the steer towards a Denon PMA 350. I have ordered one off Ebay it arrives tomorrow. (Wednesday 12/10)
I have a somewhat catholic taste in music, Beethoven is probably, overall, my favourite composer but I like sometimes to be fired up by music with a sturdy message. So I am looking for a set-up as financially economic as possible, to cater for that. Where the current set up with my Tannoy Revolution R3's/Technics amplifier is, I feel, falling short, is in the more complex passages involving brass and percussion as in, for example Shostakovich's 10th symphony and the Black Dyke Band's rendition of "The God Particle" (by Ralph Rudin) I hope it's not the CD itself or CD player (oh dear, here we go again) but things seem to get very 'scrambled' in the louder, brassier, more percussive parts. So I have listened critically to that today and if the Denon amp arrives tomorrow I will listen again. That's the extreme of course but it will be interesting to see what 50 Watts/channel achieves, I am not seeking excessive volume just clarity and 'presence'.