Re: Hmmm...
I'm sure people do build gain stages out of them, with shitty results, but that not a shortcoming of op-amps.
That's kind of the point I was making when I replied to John Brown (no body).
Don't blame the op-amps for the crappiness of your amp - they don't have much impact on the performance of a properly designed one. Lousy power supplies & regulation and output stages seem more likely to be the culprits to me.
But martinusher seems to know more than I (not difficult) so I'll shut up now.