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In Reply to: Actually.... posted by Dad on August 17, 2004 at 14:53:10:
Dies are shrinking, pin count is way up, BGA's are everywhere. Circuit board sized from yesterday (like only a couple years ago) can be accomodated in just a few small highly integrated parts. I've seen a 10 million gate Altera device with 1152 BGA pins suck in a board that used to take up two full size EISA boards with even more functionality. It's the excellence of the sound resulting from superior design that counts. Often times less parts equals better sound anyway.
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while we are on the subject of semiconductor, I will chime in a little.Yes, gates are shrinking and metal 1 pitch continues to shrink below 200nm mark for 65nm node. But fact of life is except in digital processing, high end audio is about discrete parts and discrete parts take space, lots of it.
You can pack 7.1 into a small receivers like those in Good guys, but you can't even fit a volume control, a dedicate analog board, digital board, display board, separate power supply, dual mono, high storage caps, big transformer, etc (I think you get the point) into a small space.
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