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That's the majority of Hypex resellers

And most class D amps. Merrill and Acoustic Imagery come to mind. This is true with ICE and other modules as well. W4S adds a buffer, but still uses the modules mostly intact. D-Sonics had W4S design buffers for them to put in front of their PASCAL and ABLITEC modules.
Bel Canto? Some minor tweaks.
People want them due to being "flavor of the month", and being overhyped.
There's nothing wrong with that, they are for the most part relatively cheap and decent sounding. That said, I'm not going to pay someone $10-$12K to put a module in a box.
Only a small number are doing any sort of rebuilding. Gilmore, Spectron and Auralic come to mind, redoing the power supply (read linear analog) and redesigning the digital output.
Jack


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