Marco mentioned £60 on ebay - seen them go for £80 more recently.

Real shame as they would go for nearer £20 sell as recently as the beginning of the year - crazy how these things suddenly happen with the Internet <-> Ebay feedback loop.

Personally that puts them out of range for me for trying out as there are other things out there with better perceived value - the Sondex DE1 I recently sold for less than twice that is much more substantially built and with more flexiblity and importantly sounds fantastic and probably no need to do the upgrades either as it was all premium parts in the first place.

My whole recently purchased valve pre with dual volume controls and phono stage, full of Mullards was less than one Lentek battery, 4x transistor head amp. A lucky purchase perhaps (and don't yet know if it works) but just goes to show how prices become skewed.