Too often we find a singular facet of an item's performance focused on far too much. Typically this is caused by a marketing ploy that creates a buzzword, but it can also be caused by a misrepresentation of actual performance. One of the misrepresentations I recall most vividly revolved around car audio amplifiers in the 1990s. Subs and boom were at their peak, and everyone and their brother was trying to cash in. There were literally hundreds of budget amplifier companies selling giant amps labeled as ?1000 WATTS?. Never did they give you a THD level?.or frequency response at that level?.or if it was RMS or simply a peak it could hit for less than 1 ms. Typically inside of these giant cases was a PCB the size of a pack of cigarettes, that output what most reputable audio companies would call 20 watts. Could these amps produce 1000 watts? Well?..sort of. Could they produce a usable 1000 watts? Absolutely not.