No real news

As the title spells out, there is no real news but I have to urge to babble so I will write something despite the lack of 'real' news.

I have not been playing as much as I'd like because work and family life have been taking up a lot of time but I've been making steady progress so I'm not complaining. I have been getting a bit disappointed with the sound of my amp though.
I've always been amazed how much better my guitar sounds when I'm playing through the Traynor YCV20 of my teacher so I've been thinking about getting a different amp and possibly a tube amp. Tube amps are more expensive though so I've been holding off on that.
But after using my iPod earphones I found that my amp (Vox DA20) actually sounds very good. I now have also experimented with using the line out and playing through my JVC boom box and I've found that the amp is fine, it's the speakers and headphones I'm using that are the problem.
This of course makes the solution a lot easier, I can get new speakers and headphones and my amp will sound a lot better. I had been advised that buying good speakers for a digital amp would not be worth it but after trying playing through the boom box I'm convinced it will be well worth the upgrade. I can get 2 Jensen C8R speakers for $37 each so I think that will be a better deal than dishing out $500 and up on a tube amp.

For the headphones I've selected the AKG K240 Mk. II. They are quite expensive but that will be a birthday gift for me this year.