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Originally Posted by
~Ohdee~ /forum/post/15514710
So in a nutshell you're saying you want a Classe product but you only want what
you need and at a price point
you're willing to pay.
Of course I only want to pay for what I desire. But on the other side of the coin both Classe and others, including Anthem, could produce a much better product by decreasing some of the feature sets such as mulitple zones. I want a tuner in my preamp as well, but I understand why some vendors don't put them in their preamps. Due to noise from the tuner section. What I'm saying is some of the expense is due to features that a large number of buyers may not use. I love both the D2 and SSP-800, but I bet they could make a lesser expensive preamp by dropping zones, dropping all the analog inputs, and in some cases dropping video processing for video switching. I'm not asking for them not to produce and ship a SSP-800 preamp, I'm just asking for a SSP-400 at half the price. While Anthem may sale a lot of D2s, I bet they sale a lot more cheaper AVMs.
In the case of the SSP-800, the rumor says this preamp was initially at a 12k price point. Then Classe decided to drop the price by 4k, just because they could. I bet the D2 at 7.5k had a lot to do with their new price point.
At the end of the day, companies like Emotiva are getting more looks from people like me, because a balanced 250 to 500 watt monoblock at 1k is hard as heck to ignore.