I can't help but smile at how little most care about the look of their home theater hardware, specifically those huge receivers, made of cheap bent sheet steel, the same one used on £100 amplifiers, albeit on equipment costing £1500 or more. Are you being taken for a ride? I happen to have a ten year old multichannel Sony amp in my garage (never used the thing, it was given to me and I forgot about it) and it looks virtually the same as Sony's new 'flag ship' receiver, yours for a paltry 1.5k or thereabouts.
You would'nt normally accept vinyl finish and plastic terminals on a speaker costing that much so why buy those ugly, cheap looking/seeminly cheaply built AV receivers? I'm fully aware that there are classy AV products out there at huge cost (Classe etc) but surely, for anything costing over a certain amount, by that I mean budget products which now often include similar Video circuitry, a bit of attention on build and finish would'nt go amiss for the not inconsiderable amounts of cash changing hands, especially as the nature of those amps is that they usually have to be visible.
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You would'nt normally accept vinyl finish and plastic terminals on a speaker costing that much so why buy those ugly, cheap looking/seeminly cheaply built AV receivers? I'm fully aware that there are classy AV products out there at huge cost (Classe etc) but surely, for anything costing over a certain amount, by that I mean budget products which now often include similar Video circuitry, a bit of attention on build and finish would'nt go amiss for the not inconsiderable amounts of cash changing hands, especially as the nature of those amps is that they usually have to be visible.
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