I felt the same way when I first purchased mine several years ago, and with the price that these are going for now they are hard to beat. By the way if you want to improve upon the sound of these there's always SMc Audio. I ventured down this path and now have a pair of 0.5 mono-blocks with everything that Steve McCormack puts into them, with the exception of the new case work that is. Funny thing is I still have my original mono-blocks. One of these days I'll have to pull them out and do a comparison.
