Saxo, you have alot to learn. Is the poundage of heat sinks or the glitziness of a face plate the measure of an amplifier, in your opinion?
Do you buy your amps by the pound?
FYI, Berning has about the best reliability reputation over the last 25 years, of any manufacturer there is. The stuff never breaks. So much for the "stingy 2 year warranty" that you'll never need.
As far as being built in his garage, no, it's hand assembled by him. He actually builds each one of these himself, and you get an amp that is hand made by the most talented audio designer, probably in history.
Apparently, not only does he feel he should be paid well for his designs, so do the many customers who are WAITING IN LINE to get these amps. And when they do come up on the used market, they sell for about 85% of the new price, and are snapped up in the first few hours on the classified. Quite different than the 200 pound amps you seem to desire, which bring 40-50% of new, on the used market, and languish for days or weeks on the ad boards.
But the biggest thing you will miss is the sound that will destroy anything else you listen to in this price range. Perhaps you should look in the archives, where the Berning amps are repeatedly compared to amps costing $20k.
Don't get me wrong, you are entitled to your opinion about these amps. It was just so glaringly apparent that your opinion is poorly founded, that I had to make a comment.If you have a pre-concieved notion that you don't like OTLs, that's fine, but don't complain about the lack of weight when the whole purpose of OTL design is based on eliminating the heaviest part of a tube amp, which are the output transformers. Your comments show gross ignorance.
