Coming back to the opening post, some of the people I've listened to and followed their advice have been:
Tom Brennan on Audio Asylum:
https://db.audioasylum.com/cgi/search.m ... &forum=hug
For alerting me to classic American high efficincy speakers. It was because of him that I bought a pair of EV Sentry III's.
TonyL of pfm and Richard Dunn for alerting me to the fact that there are alternatives to the LP12. Because of them I bought an EMT 930. Which led me on to an EMT 950.
Arthur Salvatore
http://www.high-endaudio.com/. Bought a Coincident 300b Frankenstein prototype because of him. Great amp - with the right speakers.
Lampizator.
http://www.lampizator.eu/lampizator/REF ... a1549.html. Bought a Marantz CD48 for £20 and Philips CD 753 for £30 because of him.
This website
https://audio-heritage.jp/ for alerting me to some equipment that cost more than a million yen when new that could be bought for less than £500 on ebay.
Various posters for turning me on to the Korneff (clone) SET amplifier
https://db.audioasylum.com/cgi/search.m ... xt=korneff
Great amplifier with the right speakers and source. My party trick is to connect my CD player direct to this power amp direct to my EV Sentry III's. No pre-amp. No volume control. It works because of a lack of gain in this 2 watt SET. It works really well, if a little bit on the loud side for most CD's because less is more.