The worst was Curtis Mathis, who bought the rights to discontinued
RCA chassis designs and built clones in the '70s and '80s. You paid a
premium price for a four to six year old design, and most of the sets
were DOA, or needed some repair at the store. A local furniture store
sold them, and we had to fix every damn one of them before they could be
put on the sales floor. They also sold Morse Electrophonic 'stereos'
that claimed 200 W per channel. They used the same output transistors
as '60s japanese transistor radios, and the speakers were rated at five
watts.



Nowhere in electronics have I encountered more creatively packaged bull****
than audio amplifier ratings. Peak power, PMPO, music power, there's all
sorts of names for meaningless inflated wattage ratings.