[matthew2456]

Anyone got any recommendations for a good sounding amp for a pair of akg 701 and senny 595?

looking to spend less than £25/$50 on parts.

EDIT: wouldnt actually mind building a valve amp either if it was reasonably cheap to put together

Thanks

 

[FallenAngel]

I don't think there's anything in that pricerange, but you can clone a Heed CanAmp or make something extremely similar

 

[TzeYang]

FallenAngel is right. Something like the heed should be the cheapest yet "known" for sounding good.

Just look through some text books to find out how it works(the heed is basic audio amplifier stuff, very very simple). Basically just opamp stage buffered by a single NPN transistor as voltage follower (heed uses BD139, but i like BD138 better) wrapped within the opamp's negative feedback and the transistor is biased heavily into class A using resistor method. (Look at tangent's site to see how it's done. the output current is pulled down towards the Negative supply for the biasing.

If you were to make a heed like amp, i'd suggest you regulate the supply. Heed's default power supply does not use any regulation.