Cambridge Audio 340A

[audio amateur]

I'm back for a little more news (good and bad).
For the good part, I received the CA 340A amplifier today. It's in good shape (apart from a dent on the side), and it's works fine, so far... The problem is, it REEKS of cigarette smoke. Horrible. I didn't know stereo equipment could get so impregnated in such a smell. Anyway, I'm glad it's working and that's the most important. And boy is it working.. I played a little 'The sound of San Fran' by Global Deejays and those yellow woofers were bangin' like never before I guess them 6 watts from the Trends weren't enough to move 'em that much

Anywayz, the bad news is i'm gonna be outta money real soon. That may just be because i'll be picking up a pair of Kef iQ5 SE's for my folks on Saturday (hopefully). It's a surpise.. Which they won't get until I go home in march.
This means I'll be returning the Merlin cables I just ordered. I've only just used them, and that's with the new amp.. I'll proceed to make a direct comparison with my cables. For the theory of that: I'll play a mono source, place the two speakers right next to each other, use one cable from each of the two pairs of interconnects and plug them in seperate inputs on the amp. That should give me direct switching between the cables in pretty similar conditions. Pretty good huh?
Whatever the outcome, I'll be returning them as I need the cash..
I might post a couple pictures later once i've done the comparison. I'll also give some insight as to what I think of the amp's sound.
Cheers

I forgot to add: any chance one of you has any idea of how to deal with the amps smell?