ThermalRunaway
New Member
Personally, I feel there should be a trading law against selling equipment with confusing specifications. It is unreasonable to expect Joe Public to understand that a 1000W system could infact be a lot less than that depending on the system used to measure the power by. It is also unreasonable to expect them to understand distortion figures. A lot of manufacturers choose their specifications carefully so that the performance of their product appears to be a lot better than it really is. In my opinion, that's just as bad as lying!
The same happens with computers. Manufacturer's manipulate the specifications of their products such that it sounds better than the competition, which often couldn't be further from the truth. That's lying, too.
I understand that it would be hard to standardise the way specifications are written for the customer, but there's no doubt that a LOT of improvements could be made on the current system. At the moment, manufacturer's pretty much have a free licence to lie about product performance as much as they want, by manipulating the information they give out to Joe Public. That's not fair.
Brian
The same happens with computers. Manufacturer's manipulate the specifications of their products such that it sounds better than the competition, which often couldn't be further from the truth. That's lying, too.
I understand that it would be hard to standardise the way specifications are written for the customer, but there's no doubt that a LOT of improvements could be made on the current system. At the moment, manufacturer's pretty much have a free licence to lie about product performance as much as they want, by manipulating the information they give out to Joe Public. That's not fair.
Brian