"James Sweet" wrote in message
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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.


Back in the 70's Clive Sinclair over here, produced an IC based amplifier
with about 5sq cm of heatsink on it, and claimed something ridiculous like
40 watts RMS output or some such nonsense. Turned out that it had been
cooled in liquid nitrogen to get this figure (or so the story goes ... )

Arfa