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Re:Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in... by agumonkey on Friday November 15, 2019 @06:45PM (#21549857)
This is a fitting description of audio devices. What used to fill a box is now a 5mm chipset. The perverse effect is that the chip has 20x more options than the original device, so it looks better, but the quality and longevity may very well be degraded in disguise.
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Re:Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in... by dharmab on Friday November 15, 2019 @07:58PM (#21550191)
I have to laugh at how large my receiver is when I can peek into the "cooling vents" and clearly see a fairly small solid state board and a ton of empty space.
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Re:Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in... by tristor on Saturday November 16, 2019 @02:49AM (#21551546)
Depending on your receiver, that may be because it’s trying to conform to chassis sizing requirements to be rack mountable (often via audio shelves, not rails). In the audio world many things use 19” comm racks, much like servers do.
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