Quote Originally Posted by kexodusc
Didn't ever really think you were slamming my amp, just thought I'd point out your contrary opinions of two similar situations. Though I can appreciate skepticism. Yeah, I bought a lot of more expensive power amps too. Someone made a lot of money off me. Sooner or later one would expect production advantages to be passed on to a consumer.

TV's are probably the best example of that. An LCD a few years ago would have required a second mortgage for some people. How are they making them better and cheaper? Aside from the margins going down to even negative at times (and accusations of license fraud), they've streamlined the process. On goods that aren't strongly correlated to commodities, one should expect price cuts over time to a certain extent.
Anyway, you can slam my amp all you want. I'll retaliate by slamming your vacuum cleaner. It won't change either of our reasons for buying...

I don't really know enough about Apex or Vizio to enter the debate or pass judgement on it. You and Sir T tend to have healthy disagreements that make for animated reading though. Carry on...

Well, they got rid of all of the tubes in the eighties, except for the high voltage oscilator,
and the picture tube, and then nothing but the tube.
Plasma still has both, just a flat tube and a solid state oscilator.
But lcd and other form factors make for great economies in the factory, they can be built very simply, and the major componet is made outta sand.
As for amps, I WISH HEATHKIT WAS STILL IN BUSINESS .
Would be fun to "roll your own".
Of course you can still do it on your own, but what a job...