Hi All, My first post here. I will shortly have a budget of £3-£3.5K for a complete system i.e. CDp amp & speakers. It seems for that budget that I can basically get an entry level offering from the likes of Naim,Cyrus, MF, Quad etc etc. It seems an awful lot of money to start at entry level so my questions is wether it is worth trying to get slightly bettter components. This is just an example or two but the new MF Xray V3 looks very nice, but I may be able to get a higher spec amp from MF than the X-150, 2nd hand, or ex demo, that should work well with the Xray as they are both from MF. Or maybe the quad 99 cdp but picking up a 2nd hand quad amp etc. On a different note could you use a couple of Quad 909 power amps as mono blocs. cheers