I don't see as much advertising as I used to for techies who mod gear.
Every component is made to a price point.
Use expensive parts it has to be sold for more.
I can't remember exactly, but way back TAS stated something about upgraded parts that cost $5.00 more than a commercial product would cause the amp to be priced many times more than just the initial $5.00.
So replacing all the spec grade resistors and caps for example, with Dueland or whatever is the soup du jour won't just add their parts cost to the price of the component.It will be multiple times the cost of those upgraded parts.
The reason for this has been lost in time, because I can't remember what their rationale was.
I suppose you can buy a fistful of spec worthy bits and stockpile them in case of warranty issue.
Perhaps having to tie up your money in designer spares is just to costly in case of warranty issues.
A ten cent resistor blows on warranty and all you have to replace is another 10 cent one.
Now as far as the mod issue goes,maybe I've answered my own question.
Every component is made to a price point.
Use expensive parts it has to be sold for more.
I can't remember exactly, but way back TAS stated something about upgraded parts that cost $5.00 more than a commercial product would cause the amp to be priced many times more than just the initial $5.00.
So replacing all the spec grade resistors and caps for example, with Dueland or whatever is the soup du jour won't just add their parts cost to the price of the component.It will be multiple times the cost of those upgraded parts.
The reason for this has been lost in time, because I can't remember what their rationale was.
I suppose you can buy a fistful of spec worthy bits and stockpile them in case of warranty issue.
Perhaps having to tie up your money in designer spares is just to costly in case of warranty issues.
A ten cent resistor blows on warranty and all you have to replace is another 10 cent one.
Now as far as the mod issue goes,maybe I've answered my own question.