Does Anyone Else Member the Golden Age of Audio Insults and Product Degradation?

So Funny!!! I recall an audio salesperson in about 1980 in a nice store jokingly telling a potential customer who owned Big Ohm speakers (w/ original inverted cone Walsh drivers) that they need lots of power but can’t it so he had the perfect amp for them - the Carver Magic Cube that has lots of power but can’t deliver it.  I’m not sure if his effort to sell some new equipment worked or not but it was a good effort. 
 

I then went returned to that same store months later to hear another salesperson, after being asked about the quality of Pioneer receivers vs the new NAD stuff,  said they so poor & they were being so heavy distributed & discount Ed you could buy them at gas stations! Meanwhile, no Pioneer product I ever heard of shot up flames on turn on which happened on occasion w/ the early NAD stuff. Good times

I never knew any funny comments about the Dalqhuist DQ - 10's so I'll make one up - the speakers w/ the Don't Quit crossovers - so complex w/ many mediocre parts & drivers. I know they were amongst the first speakers to address the concepts of time & phase alignment & sounded good in some ways but I didn't find the high or low ends convincing, especially when pushed loud.