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<blockquote data-quote="jujumantb" data-source="post: 1553281" data-attributes="member: 555241">I&#039;d argue that its more that most companies are simply adjusting to the changing car audio market, not that they were making a name for themselves at first by selling solidly built amps.&nbsp; With that logic, Zapco and Mcintosh should be making complete crap by now.&nbsp; Back in the day, car audio was much more expensive, the market was more focused at a crowd looking for quality caring less at the price.&nbsp; These days, social factors have dramatically shifted the market towards a much younger crowd of teenagers, with much less income, who would rather spend as little as possible on an amp whether it be junk or not.&nbsp; This trend obviously opens up a big market for shoddilly built amps and shrinks the old, quality driven market, forcing certain random companies, who find it advantageous for whatever reason, to change their market niche (RF, MTX, etc) while a smaller group of companies were able to maintain their niche in the old, now smaller market (zapco, mcintosh, us amps).(yes I&#039;m an economics major //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif )</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jujumantb, post: 1553281, member: 555241"] I'd argue that its more that most companies are simply adjusting to the changing car audio market, not that they were making a name for themselves at first by selling solidly built amps. With that logic, Zapco and Mcintosh should be making complete crap by now. Back in the day, car audio was much more expensive, the market was more focused at a crowd looking for quality caring less at the price. These days, social factors have dramatically shifted the market towards a much younger crowd of teenagers, with much less income, who would rather spend as little as possible on an amp whether it be junk or not. This trend obviously opens up a big market for shoddilly built amps and shrinks the old, quality driven market, forcing certain random companies, who find it advantageous for whatever reason, to change their market niche (RF, MTX, etc) while a smaller group of companies were able to maintain their niche in the old, now smaller market (zapco, mcintosh, us amps). (yes I'm an economics major [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif[/IMG] ) [/QUOTE]

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