Greg Mayman wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 -=> Roy J. Tellason said to Greg Mayman
 -=> about "*BIG* TRANSISTORS" on 02-22-04  12:07.....

 RJT> Not really.  For the average consumer,  most people won't care one way
 RJT> or the other...

 GM> Yeah, most times all they want is dancing lights.

 GM> And the fewer the lights the more flickery and exciting the
 GM> display is. Five is just about enough so it's not too monotonous. 

There also seems to be a tendency for more lights on cheaper stuff.  I
remember the first time I encountered one particular brand of stuff a while
back,  doing a service call on an organ and these people had just got
themselves a new stereo by mail-order and wanted some help with it.  It
looked like a christmas tree!  I encountered that same brand of stuff some
time later when we were dealing with rental companies,  where people would
pay $800-1000 for a unit that had cost the company about $225.  Yikes!

And it was all the most cheaply made crap.

Not only was there a 5-level (or so) "VU Meter" in there,  but
also what they called a "spectrum analyzer" as well.  With all of
maybe 6 bands to cover the whole audio spectrum...

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