Compact Stereo Amp to monitor recording

[RussFM]

Now that I've finally bought my own house, I have a room purely for my music gear. I put a desk up last night, I've got a MacBook Pro with Garageband and I've got some old SkyTec 30w speakers, nothing special, but do the job. However, I've got nothing to power them. I only want something I can plug a phono lead into, and attach the speaker cable to, has a volume control, and I don't want it taking up much room on the desk. But all I can find online are hi-fi seperates, which are huge and expensive.

Anyone know of anything suitable? I don't want to spend much!

[RichardH]

How about a [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Class-T-Amp-Integrated-Amplifier%26Tripath-TA2024%20Adapter_W0QQitemZ120591220862QQcmdZViewItem?rvr_id=&rvr_id=&cguid=dd93b83d11d0a0e203276727fe9b0958"]T-Amp[/url]? If you search for T-amp you'll find loads of variations, that's just the first I came upon.

EDIT here's a couple more:
[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Tripath-TA2020-Class-T-Amp-Mini-Stereo-Amplifier-20WX2-/200489118013?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_AudioTVElectronics_HomeAudioHiFi_Amplifiers&hash=item2eae15293d"]£13.99[/url]
[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MUSE-T-AMP-MU-15-MK2-TA2024-Class-T-HI-FI-Amplifier-G-/120571934235?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c12a5b61b"]£20 odd[/url]
Looks like you'll need a wall wart as well, but that's cheap enough.

Edited July 20, 2010 by RichardH

[RussFM]

Exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for, and much better prices than what I was finding, I'll get one! Thanks!!

[RichardH]

Watcfh out where they're coming from - a lot are from HK/China, so may take a while to arrive!