Seeing as my 5.1 Yamaha amp blew a couple of months ago (At a very eventful party - someone decided that 5.1 would be louder than the standard 2.1 and the resulting volume blew the rear and centre channels, speakers are fine) i've decided to get another amp, as my speakers are sitting there redundant.

Anyone have any suggestions? I've tried to get pretty much the same amp on fleabay but I keep getting sniped.

My budget is less than £100..

£100 isn't a lot to go on, even in the 2nd hand world - in my honest opinion you'd be better off spending the money on a 2 channel amp - you will "lose" the surround channels - but you will get more for your money with regards sq.

However, if you're set on replacing like for like, I have stolen some adverts from avforum's classifieds (which you might not be able to see) to give you an idea of what's out there for £30-70 more... some very nice amps here:

http://www.avforums.com/forums/amplifie ... ost9363905


http://www.avforums.com/forums/amplifie ... 1-amp.html


http://www.avforums.com/forums/amplifie ... eiver.html

Well I took the plunge and got a Yamaha DSP-E492, which is the exact same as my old one! Not bad at £85 delivered, but I think it was worth it. I also got two floorstanding Beng speakers cheap off ebay - I figured why the hell not - and am very pleasantly surprised. They might not be the loudest speakers in the world, but the range on them is excellent with both speakers having built in subwoofer speakers (obviously not connected to sub output though, just there for some extra bass).

What is annoying is that my centre speaker also died at the party and that cost more than the amp. Errors. Saved by the Beng speakers though, as I was able to rig up one of my old L/R speakers as the new centre channel. The sound quality is excellent now, and i'm just getting used to the difference between streamed media and local media as i'm streaming from the ol' 360. It does mean that I have to use a pair of boring "standard" rear channel speakers instead of using my old L/R floorstanders, but I can't really justify spending another £100 to replace just one speaker. And I now effectively have a 4.1 amp spare (centre channel blown, but will output to the 4 speakers using Dolby switched off and "phantom" centre-speaker settings) so I guess that's another one for the PC.

You guys seem to acquire hardware like that?