Having 3+ resellers reselling a common pre/pro gets the price of the pre/pro down to $899, and I applaud. But I have to ask why the same resellers won't resell a common amp.

Why share pre/pro's but not amps? Are these resellers trying to distinguish their product lines by having distinguished amps?

If they resold the same amps, wouldn't they get the amp price way way down too? Amp designs don't change all that much each year. They're not like a pre/pro that needs to change each year. Amps are like brawn. Pre/pro's are like brain. But, in a 950/770 setup, far more bucks are spent on the brawn than the brain. We can resort to mini-me brawn, a.k.a. 7100 to save $. But how come regular 770 class brawn costs so much more than regular brain?

What do you think? Am I all wet or is the price of an amp in the 770's class higher than it ought to be?

[This message has been edited by Will (edited October 08, 2002).]