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<blockquote data-quote="hispls" data-source="post: 8583172" data-attributes="member: 614752">A second or two may be optimistic.The pre-China stuff is 20 years old now and whatever they were in their hay-day they are prone to failure due to age.&nbsp; Also technology in semiconductors has come an awful long way... think of what your 1999 PC or cell phone looked like.&nbsp; While perfectly functional for playing music most of that stuff is still terribly obsolete.I bought a couple 55AH size from Oreiley&#039;s a few years ago for around 160 a pop,&nbsp; Penn made store brand &quot;platinum&quot; series.&nbsp; Shop around, wait for a good sale or coupon and the 150 price tag isn&#039;t unreasonable.&nbsp; More recently I bought a few 110 AH &quot;Duracell&quot; branded Penn at Batteries Plus for around 270 a pop.Hey, I found a 20+ year old amp that failed trying to drive a resistor bank at lowest rated impedance.There is still a lesson here in that the even newest old school amps that would be worth owning (for anything beyond the sake of nostalgia/collecting) are still rather obsolete A/B designs and at the tail end of the life expectancy of most of the components.&nbsp; I&#039;m very confident that if you bought 100 Chinese/Korean amps today few if any would fare as well 20 years from now.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hispls, post: 8583172, member: 614752"] A second or two may be optimistic. The pre-China stuff is 20 years old now and whatever they were in their hay-day they are prone to failure due to age. Also technology in semiconductors has come an awful long way... think of what your 1999 PC or cell phone looked like. While perfectly functional for playing music most of that stuff is still terribly obsolete. I bought a couple 55AH size from Oreiley's a few years ago for around 160 a pop, Penn made store brand "platinum" series. Shop around, wait for a good sale or coupon and the 150 price tag isn't unreasonable. More recently I bought a few 110 AH "Duracell" branded Penn at Batteries Plus for around 270 a pop. Hey, I found a 20+ year old amp that failed trying to drive a resistor bank at lowest rated impedance. There is still a lesson here in that the even newest old school amps that would be worth owning (for anything beyond the sake of nostalgia/collecting) are still rather obsolete A/B designs and at the tail end of the life expectancy of most of the components. I'm very confident that if you bought 100 Chinese/Korean amps today few if any would fare as well 20 years from now. [/QUOTE]

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