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Minimum standards within the High end speaker industry

I believe that there must be minimum standards within the speaker industry to prevent charlatans from gaining access to the marketplace. We must ensure that the industry is reputable and remains that way. We must protect consumers from speakers that masquerade as ultra high end designs when in fact they are of inferior quality.
Inferior quality speakers will still be allowed to be sold under the Kenjit mandate however they will need to be explicitly classified as such.

We currently do not have ANY standards let alone minimum standards and as a consequence the speaker industry has already been reduced to a hodgepodge of wildly varying speaker designs some of which are highly questionable or even downright fraudulent.

There can be no question that the industry requires minimum standards. I am not here to state what those standards should be but there needs to be a discussion about it. 

We need to start weeding out all those inferior speakers on the marketplace as they cannot possibly all be that different from one another. We must take action to ''Make high end speakers, great again!'' (TM pending)
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Standards? You mean like amplifiers? Those are regulated. Strictly regulated. Power claims must be RMS, and measured after a rigorously defined warm-up period. What I want to know from you kenjit, is how you think this has helped amplifiers to sound better?  

Because immediately after all these measurements were instated what did we have? Amplifier wars. Everyone competing to have the most power, and the lowest distortion as measured by all these stupid measurements.  

I say stupid because they are. Anyone can make a component that measures good. The challenge is to make one that actually sounds good. Anyone dumb enough to think measurements are the measure of sound quality, well they probably deserve to spend the rest of their life trolling the same fruitless questions over and over again, a veritable Mobius strip of inanity. 

So it has been. So it shall be.
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