Why pay so much?

"...and I’m assuming the speaker industry threatened them in to not doing it..."

They got "backlash" from it, and wow...

Remember, it was just your assumption, not the known fact, but you built your case on it.

Apparently the D3004-6600 was, too "neutral" and not "lively" enough, but good enough for the Anat Reference II at $100,000 which won awards for the best speaker ever at the time.

I forgot what thread it was here on audiogon, but people were mentioning what you are asking for. A couple of hundred dollar amplifiers with lots of power and, allegedly, very good sound. It might have not been five channel, though.

Try to accept the fact that many people have no obsession over margins. Why focus on margins? That is what a manufacturer should do, not a buyer.

They can exist. And I don’t want to bring up the $10k amplifier challenge by Richard Clarke, but 10s of thousands or people are yet to identify amplifiers with the same gain and same frequency response as to sounding different.

If you want .001% THD instead or .01% and a higher dampening factor to take it to 11? Fine.
But most people don’t care about taking it to 11 (Spinal Tap reference) and a $350 7 channel 1,000 watt rms factory direct amplifier can exist when a 6 channel car audio amplifier exists on 3rd party sites, so 2 people taking margins instead of 1 on the factory dirext, and cost to build margins, so if a car audio company with 3rd party sellers can sell 6 channel 1,000 watt RMS amplifiers for $200? I’m sure the factory direct audio world can do it, too. Especially since car amplifiers and home theater amplifiers are so similar.