restorer-john
Grand Contributor
... and it also means you get more years or decades of reliable function. Depends what you are seeking for. If it is a toy which you need to change every 6 months to be "in" on the social network, then these small undersized boxes are the way to go.
It's a case of old heads can't be put on young shoulders, Pavel.
Modern day, young audiophiles need to have their own journey of discovery. They will learn (hopefully) that the cheap, tiny, poorly ventilated, heat producing products they are clamouring to buy today, will be in landfill in short order. Nobody will repair them.
They are faux eco-warriors, using paper straws, re-usable shopping bags and hanging out at farmer's markets on the weekend, professing a 'sustainable' vision midset. But their brown goods are being turned over (often for no good reason) at a rate never before seen in the history of the world, creating e-waste on a scale that is just criminal.
Hypocrisy, much?