Tír Na HiFi

Dunno the exact level, but it's basically in the "replace speakers on TV with something a bit better that can play some music too" ballpark. Budget roughly zero, give or take a few quid.

I lit on this one before I picked the av amp...

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.vi ... 0899995965

It's the only reasonable one I could find with a remote control option

the " use the tv as a preamp" headphone output to amp method is, to be generous sub-optimal!

Interesting. Did you drive speakers with it? Were they uber high efficiency?

I drove a pair of monitor audio bookshelves, it could drive the SAs too...