[Mr.T]

"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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Not only that, but the cost of capacious power transformers, heat sinks
and
transistors has fallen quite a bit.

And yet many manufacturers will continue to cut costs on those items, to
reduce their selling price, and increase their profit margin.
Whilst I don't buy those bottom feeder electronics, many people do, so it is
silly to think everything has improved when in fact many of the cheaper amps
are now worse than 20 years ago. Unfortunately some people expect 7 channels
with more power than a two channel amp of similar price, and refuse to
believe there might be a trade off somewhere.
Whilst Chinese manufacture has reduced the price, so has the quality IMO.

MrT.