In article , Geoff Wood
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"John A. Weeks III" wrote in message

All commercial audio equipment is built with compromises and trade-offs.
A common trade-off is price versus quality. Another one is parts count.
I can easily see a case where Onkyo would have like to have used certain
higher quality parts, but ended up using something less to hit some
marketing price point. One never knows what kind of improvement could
be made by changing out low quality capacitors and putting in low noise
op-amps.

So, you change the PSU and it still sounds like an Onkyo instead of being
transformed into a Krell or whatever. What do you modify next, or do you
just say stuff it and buy something better, maybe 'used', in the first
place ?

Not everyone has unlimited budgets like some of the audio snobs that
seem to hang around here. Perhaps the original poster is a high
school student, and the Onkyo was handed down to him, and now he wants
to do these mods as part of his high school electronics class as his
term project? Who cares if it sounds better or not. Haven't you ever
heard of someone wanting to do something for the educational value,
for the experience, or just because of no reason at all, just fun?

Perhaps you live in a world where you can have a pile of Krell in
every corner of every room of your mansion. But please make room
in the hobby for other folks, espeically those who have entry level
equipment pending making thier fortune in the world.

-john-

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