Because you're internet bullies? Also 1k posts in less than 1 year, 4k in less than 3 years...I think it's fair to assume you guys lack good social skills.
To recap, you guys need to go back to your finance 101 course and learn basic performance metrics. More expensive amps generally do sound better, up until a certain price point, and evalatuing the cost per channel is a good metric when it comes to low cost (under 5k, especially under 2k) amplifiers.
In the first place, no competently designed amplifier operating within its power envelope "sounds better". All competent amps sound the same; like nothing. They simply amplify the electrical signal, no more and no less.
If two amplifiers sound different, then one (or both) are either broken or incompetently designed. It's possible that many manufacturers deliberately design amplifiers to sound "different", so as to cater to the agenda of different audio cults. I call that type of design "incompetent". As I said above, all
competent amps sound the same; like nothing. Price has nothing
intrinsic to do with it. Not only that, but I would classify YT reviews as unscientific efforts to accrue subscriptions, and therefore money.
Although higher power amps have a greater number of parts, weigh more, are larger, they therefore cost more on that basis
alone. But it's possible for heavy, high power amps to be junk, too. So the price-ratio basis doesn't necessarily hold here, either.
Although I have not made a complete canvass of the market, I have generally found that companies with good reputations going back many years have good amps starting in the several hundreds of dollars, not thousands.
If you read the amplifier reviews under the "review index" tab, you can compare many amplifiers of different makes and power output, and you will find very little correlation between price and performance.
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As for the remark I made ..... I deleted it. I normally try to be civil, and I admit I could have couched the idea in a bit more diplomatic manner. But if you think that criticism and disagreement are "bullying", and that those people expressing viewpoints different than yours are people who need to "calm down", then you're practicing suppression. That's not a good social skill, either.
There are many very well-informed people on this forum who tell us of new ideas and teach us new things. They do it by disagreeing, by criticizing and expressing different viewpoints. That's part and parcel of learning.
Hope to see you around. Jim