Emotiva amp design, I don't think Rammis would approve

[TitaniumTroy]

A friend who runs a different forum, his observations from the CES show about Emotiva's electronics. Amir, posted some very large pics. So you have to scroll forever to get past the half way mark to see the small computer fans used. http://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/ces-2017-emotiva.1225/

If you scroll all the way to the bottom you can read about Secrets of Home Theater giving the Emotiva 7-channel amp the "Bad Ass Award"

 

[MakeMineVinyl]

Wow, the photographer sure seems obsessed with pictures of that HDMI board!

Yeah, that computer fan is kind of cheezy. Actually I would venture to guess that the design originally was supposed to get by with no fans, relying on the heatsinks alone. They probably found that the heatsinks were not adequate to dissipate all the heat, so the kludged-on fans were tacked on. Overall, the construction quality doesn't seem to be all that bad, at least on these particular units.

I would stress that, in general, you get what you pay for in quality of construction and parts quality. There's really no possible way to "cheat" significantly better quality out of significantly less build cost. It just can't be done, even by making the parts in China; the PCBs with surface mount components are all machine stuffed anyway, so there's really no significant construction savings. The most common power transformers in essentially all power amps are made by Noratel in Sri Lanka (you can tell them by the red Armadillo logo assuming the manufacturer hasn't taken them off). Those pretty square blue low voltage transformers with fins that you see in even very high end gear are made in India, and are really inexpensive.