@jwl244 - The responses you are getting are related to people's skepticism that the government can effectively communicate, monitor, or enforce something like how power output is reported by manufacturers.
While I generally don't trust the government to be effective, I am old enough to remember how things were prior to the regulation and how much BS there was between manufacturer's claims and what you would hear from audio salesmen.
Fast forward to today, and I believe that regulation or not, it would be harder for a manufacturer to bamboozle buyers for any length of time because of the information available from reviewers and owners on the internet.
While I generally don't trust the government to be effective, I am old enough to remember how things were prior to the regulation and how much BS there was between manufacturer's claims and what you would hear from audio salesmen.
Fast forward to today, and I believe that regulation or not, it would be harder for a manufacturer to bamboozle buyers for any length of time because of the information available from reviewers and owners on the internet.