-=> GREG MAYMAN wrote to ROY J. TELLASON <=-

 RJT> There also seems to be a tendency for more lights on cheaper stuff.  I
 RJT> remember the first time I encountered one particular brand of stuff a
 RJT> while back,  doing a service call on an organ and these people had just
 RJT> got themselves a new stereo by mail-order and wanted some help with it.
 RJT> It looked like a christmas tree!

You mean the ones with the modualar many pin amplifier
one for each channel, a lame 1 ampere transformer
and 4001 1 ampere 50 volt rectifiers in the bridge
along with an underated filter cap?

Tuner, Amp and power supply 35 bucks max including the PC board
and third world assembly.
Case, 3 - 5 dollars with the rest going to the LEDS they hung
all over the place.
Then mark it up three hundred percent minimum :-(

I've two of them here now, one hooked up to the PC and the other the
T.V - VCR. Work fine unless you want to crank them up.
The unit on the VCR has an external DC power jack... rated
at 12 volts and 750 MA ;-)

Both salvage as I don't pay for this sort of crap.

Like Kenwood however, nice clean, quiet and crisp sound
with zip for background noise.
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