BoosedElephant
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Granted @amirm hasn't performed very many reviews for home theater receivers. His sample size is too small to determine if it is indicative a larger trend within the industry. However, I am seeing multi-thousand dollar receivers measuring terribly. And it's mind blowing to me.
I understand from a technological perspective that pushing larger amounts of power will be more difficult to accomplish while also delivering acceptable measurements. Headphones have it easy, even the most inefficient samples only require, at most, 6 watts of power to properly drive. We are also lucky because only two channels have to be driven. It's logical to assume that increasing the number of channels will also increase the difficulty in engineering equipment that measures well. The part I don't understand is that engineers haven't worked through these problems to deliver quality equipment. Or are they just not trying because the parent companies don't want them to? Anyway, we live in a day and age where we can purchase phenomenal speakers and the receivers that drive them are absolutely terrible. What gives?
I understand from a technological perspective that pushing larger amounts of power will be more difficult to accomplish while also delivering acceptable measurements. Headphones have it easy, even the most inefficient samples only require, at most, 6 watts of power to properly drive. We are also lucky because only two channels have to be driven. It's logical to assume that increasing the number of channels will also increase the difficulty in engineering equipment that measures well. The part I don't understand is that engineers haven't worked through these problems to deliver quality equipment. Or are they just not trying because the parent companies don't want them to? Anyway, we live in a day and age where we can purchase phenomenal speakers and the receivers that drive them are absolutely terrible. What gives?