Andy, we bought another Rotel on wednesday, a 976 6 channel effort, but you can bridge it into 3 channels around 150-200w per channel, I 'lost' the captive lead and rewired with O/A special, changed some other small bits and pieces, and it's now 'Non glassy' as timpy used to discribe the older rotels and has better preformance than the 1070 (which is pretty good to be honest), cost us £175 from your neck of the woods Mate Brizzol, surprised you missed that one of hifi for sale, thought we show you next week both rotels and other budget gear thats sounds quite fair. T.