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RE: If there's good oversight by a US based company....

Posted by Raymond Leggs (A) on November 22, 2017 at 10:10:42

In Reply to: RE: If there's good oversight by a US based company.... posted by Raymond Leggs on November 22, 2017 at 09:42:28:

Picture of Another inexpensive Stereo Receiver made in Japan Designed in USA.

I used to laugh at these non mainstream budget units until I heard one. It was an integrated amp that was part of a rack system at a rent to own place. It was all the same Technical Pro brand. there was a tuner, Dvd player, rack, Integrated amp with a big VFD VU meter and what appeared to be Dj type speakers. Same brand woofers had blue surrounds.

The system actually sounded nice despite the non ideal space but they did have everything placed perfectly in front of a couch. Speakers actually toed in. Correctly. The bass was big, but not boomy and the mids were surpsingly neutral so where the highs a bit forward, but not hard sounding. Sort of old-school Klipsch like. In other words Decent budget hifi speakers in PA speakers clothing.

Most of these units appear to have toroidal supplies and the heatsinks always have discreet output transistors on them. Never opened one up but I have looked through the top.

I think if some of these companies would add HDMI to thier units (pyle has) and did some more quality control they could compete with some of the bigger guys.

I don't mind the Mic/Karaoke because Karaoke is fun.

I don't actually think that these units can actually be any less reliable than Sherwood or HK, or to some extent Onkyo to date. Ad a poster above said even an *established* company like B&K can make units that don't last and have a high return rate.

For all we know these units could be made in the same facilites. After all the company that owns and makes sherwood gear makes parts and even whole units for tons of other brands.

In fact I was thinking about getting the little Pyle PT684BT HDMI receiver, since it has some of the the best reviews out of all of them. lacks input quantity, but other brands seem to taking away inputs too.... It's also the most conservitively rated and decorated out of all of them besides the PT594 which has a metal faceplate...

and it has a loudness button.

A $1000.00 Sony ES receiver reviewed by what hifi had only 2 optical, one coax and a tiny group of RCA analog plugs, and about 5 HDMI inputs and that's it... so I can't strike a $168.99 receiver for lacking inputs too...

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