To be fair, you're asking for pinnacle of sound for literally half the price of the TOTL offerings from other companies. You have to understand that there is a compromise to be made in the sense that if you make something with the multiple tunings like Trinity products, you can't do the same as something like the other companies; because they're tuning a single sound signature, they can tweak the hell out of it to make it exactly as they want at the highest end. Trinity's gotta tune in a way that matches multiple sound signatures, which will naturally make it way harder to match the same level of fidelity. As the old saying goes, "jack of all trades, master of none". Which in this case of business, can actually work out to a very good advantage. The lower pricing structure and the multiple sound signature tunings all move towards capturing a larger audience, not to mention that the majority of portable audio expenditures are probably under $500 anyway so anything higher becomes more of a niche development rather than something more profit-generating. There are multiple ways to go about the business quality/balance act and this is the way Trinity Audio has done it.