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<blockquote data-quote="desertheat" data-source="post: 1569479" data-attributes="member: 557169"><p>Yep *LOL* I have a pic of alpines being made right in the same factory as kenwoods back in the day, was funny as heck to see them being assembled in the same building. Also totally agreed. Alpine goes in quality waves they pump up the features to sell and make a name for themselves, then out of the blue they drop most of the features, build cheap as heck amps to make a huge amount of cash. Then when the hardcores start to catch on the features come back very slow. For example, I feel they peaked with the 7909, then took awhile and peaked with the 7949, then went flat with crappy preouts and then rocked with the 7915.. then went to crap and made a wicked comeback with the 9835 and 7998... then signed up bigtime with bestbuy and dropped features like mad, had them massproduced to a whole new low level to make demands and now it is back to not so good again. But I venture to say the product should last. My mrv-f340 ran very cool and nice. Nothing harsh or hot. I have not messed with them after the f-340 but it was a rock solid little guy! Which leads me to beleive the higher power older model f540??? would rock as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="desertheat, post: 1569479, member: 557169"] Yep *LOL* I have a pic of alpines being made right in the same factory as kenwoods back in the day, was funny as heck to see them being assembled in the same building. Also totally agreed. Alpine goes in quality waves they pump up the features to sell and make a name for themselves, then out of the blue they drop most of the features, build cheap as heck amps to make a huge amount of cash. Then when the hardcores start to catch on the features come back very slow. For example, I feel they peaked with the 7909, then took awhile and peaked with the 7949, then went flat with crappy preouts and then rocked with the 7915.. then went to crap and made a wicked comeback with the 9835 and 7998... then signed up bigtime with bestbuy and dropped features like mad, had them massproduced to a whole new low level to make demands and now it is back to not so good again. But I venture to say the product should last. My mrv-f340 ran very cool and nice. Nothing harsh or hot. I have not messed with them after the f-340 but it was a rock solid little guy! Which leads me to beleive the higher power older model f540??? would rock as well. [/QUOTE]

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