The Home Theater Company Collusion Theory

Technically, Denon, Marantz, Onkyo, etc. Can offer a processor for $300, and a 7 channel amplifier for $300, and still make a profit.
Basically, a home theater receiver is just a processor and an amplifier in one unit instead of 2.
If you spend $500 on a reciever or an amp and processor , you should be able spend $300 on separate processors and amplifiers since a receiver is just basically both of them combined, yet not a single company will sell a processor or amplifier alone for below like $2,000.
Reserving hi fi for the elite, in the name of making things more expensive than they have to be.
I’m sure they could release a 100 watt 8 ohm / 150 watt 4 ohm amplifier for $500-600 at Best Buy, and a good 7 channel processor for $300-500, and a Dolby Atmos processor for $600-750 and still make a killing going by what they charge for receivers.

Obviously it’d kill their margins on high end stuff, I’m just saying they could.

Going by what they charge in receivers, it’s just a insinuation.

Why has no one ever done this?

Collusion!

What do you guys think?

Also, selling processor and amplifiers separately for $2k minimum, and forcing people who spend less to buy revievers, forces people to have to upgrade the receiver (amplifier and processor) to get new audio and video technologies. So if they sold separates, at low prices, no one would upgrade the amplifier. It’s a conspiracy to force you to upgrade more.

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- Andy