OK lets talk about the elephant in the room: unregulated advertised power specifications. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) created regulations on how home audio amplifiers can advertise their power and other specifications back in the 1970's and for some reason, this hasn't been enforced in decades. Some manufacturers are just making up specifications and selling sub standard products as something they aren't.

The audio industry has sat back and from where I am sitting, done nothing to enforce these standards on the bad players. Most of them seem to be these manufactured in China products, many being sold through mainstream US retailers which should be required to follow the FTC regulations, but don't feel any pressure to do so. It's past time for consumers to demand this be reigned in. The good players should embrace this, to weed out the folks that are flat out lying about what they are selling.

Unfortunately people are making money by lying to consumers, and then we have influencers hyping these fake products. Consumers buy into these lies, and then they become part of the hype train by defending these substandard products. This is a mess that the audio industry need to work to fix and regain consumers trust in what they are spending their money on.

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