Before I go and buy one of these *
https://www.project-audio.com/en/product/stereo-box-rs/
is there anything else kicking around out there?
No need for fancy DACs, streaming or anything else, just a stereo amp.
Around a grand-ish, maybe a bit more.
If your amp and the word “vintage” could sit comfortably together in the same sentence then it’s probably not a go-er.
Thanks in advance.
* disclaimer, I have also been looking at last-model Naim kit, Nait XS 2, Supernait 2 etc.
I have some lovely ‘classic’ Marantz to offer 
Actually, I have been offered a Marantz PM11 S2 for not much more than your budget
£650-875 seems a lot. I’ll have to look at component costs again 
In the thread it says the guy charges over a grand now!
At least it looks well put together.
The original builder is charging for his time which has the original price >£1k
Just going by the ones I built, there was roughly £400-500 in parts. They took me a weekend so I charged about £150.00 to build them.
Hence I sold the A30 for £500 and the A60 monoblocks for £1100.
I could happily knock a bunch more out but seeing as it’s a non commercial design etc I never felt all that happy asking £500+ to knock an amp together.
Parts prices could have gone up substantially of course.
I reckon if you were churning them out you could save on parts and time by quite a lot.
Having four stereo sets for the compression driver parts of the horns would be nice!
15w alephs ftw.
Two 8-hour days and you’re on roughly the minimum wage. Of course if you kick off at 09:30, quit at 16:30 and take a couple of hours out each day for breaks then the rate’s a good deal better. But still not remotely
near what your local garage will charge for a mechanic. The silver lining is you might actually enjoy it 
.
VB
Well, I never measured the amount of time to do it, it isn’t 16 hours.
And no, I don’t/wouldn’t charge true rates as it’s a hobby, I provide no warranty, and it isn’t CE marked.
Producing someone else’s design in a commercial way has no interest to me at all.
14.9W wasted though…
45w because class A
This thread is going great 
So many shiny options.
Hegel.
Valve amp
Just what you are looking for, double the budget, no pre but shiny.
So the actual budget. No one would be mad enough to state the real budget in the first post surely?
Hang on… what replaced it?