How important is build quality?

Posted by Chuck Swindoll, Jr. [IP: 216.60.50.42] on April 30, 1999 at 16:31:03
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In Reply to: How important is build quality? posted by Brian Paulsen on April 30, 1999 at 14:37:54:

How hard can it be to make something out of 14 gage steel instead of 10 gage? One weighs more than the other by quite a bit, but it is the same machine bending the steel. Which of coarse answers the question, it really is not hard to make something heavy. Just ask Krell or Theta, those guys must know as much about steel engineering as they do about electronics.

I think the amp idea was right on. Most good amps weigh a ton, and the overpriced amp/pre-amp manufactures figured that if they make their pre-amps weigh the same as their amps, people will think they are better somehow. Its a sub conscious/American thing I think. Sort of the statements we all used to hear at recess in third grade, "Mine weighs more than yours so mine is better." or, "My dads bigger than your dad." I think it is the same idea that just stuck around for some people.

As a lot of you already said, "put the electronics in a cardboard box and it will sound the same." I totally agree.

If pre-amps sounded as good as they weighed, the Lex would have to be lifted with a fork lift.

Chuck

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• How important is build quality? - Brian Paulsen 17:16:31 04/30/99 (1)
  • How important is build quality? - Chuck Swindoll, Jr. 21:31:51 04/30/99 (0)

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