There's a rule in computing/high tech called Moore's law* that means that a piece of tech halves in price every 18months or doubles in capability every 18 months.Shimmer wrote:Hah!Bg wrote:boss katana, 50 watt. Not spendy, as complicated as you want it to be i.e. not at all or very. 4 great channels to choose from, don't listen to the luddites who put their faith on out dated valve tech. They just have too much surplus cash and no idea what they actually want/need.
In some ways that highlights my point though. If an amp like that is say $400, then a scaled back version without all the modelling should be heaps cheaper! Right?
So when building something like a solid state amp a huge amount of the cost goes into the fixed costs like the box, power supply, speaker, graphic design, paint and logos, shipping, and then they just choose a price point where they want to sell it. So the stuff like modelling or built in effects etc. start to get significantly better because of stuff like Moore's Law, and reliable chinese manufacturing.
So I don't think it's a case of expecting a scaled back version for significantly less, it's more a case of they shouldn't be selling cut back models for nearly the same price. Everything could come with built in computer interface, midi etc. for almost no cost apart from user complexity if they wanted.
It's possibly a great time to be a guitarist at the moment
*Moore's law is actually about doubling the density of transistors on silicon but that's what it means to us non propheads
(for example you can buy a Raspberry Pi, which is a retail computer board with the same/more power than your mobile phone for $30 and it can plug into your TV through HDMI and has wifi, Mobile phones can run Amplitube/Bias etc. well, and the Pi could - after all it can emulate everything up to PS1/Nintendo GameCube etc.)