Ah, yes it does Alan. Read your Hypex datasheet! Here it is in black and white (and yellow highlights especially for you)
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Maybe go familiarize yourself with full power bandwidth and report back when you are up to speed?
Yes it is indeed highly comical watching you constantly repeat the same ducking and weaving, vainly attempting to steer the narrative away from cold hard facts.
The facts are the Hypex amplifier data sheet numbers do not meet the US FTC requirements for advertising power output. You are merely parroting those numbers in your completed products.
They also cannot achieve their rated headline advertised power for 5 minutes at frequencies above 5kHz without a) shutting down or b) cooking the output caps. I know this from experience and you've shown absolutely
ZERO evidence to the contrary. Not even once. Not over several years. All you show is a single 1kHz linked Youtube test. Not good enough. Not remotely good enough.
And your excuse is this?
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But you advertise your amplifiers on your website in US$, sell to US citizens and yet you want to invoke an excuse like that? Seriously? I wonder what the FTC would make of that. Shall we ask them? I'm going to ask ATI for sure and see what they have to say, particularly their decision to de-rate the modules.
Nobody cares what you think is "irrelevant" when it comes to the Amplifier Rule. If you don't like it, lobby for change, but in the meantime, ensure your products are compliant. Simple.
Just rate them properly, like ATI apparently does and sell them with confidence in all markets, knowing they are compliant. It's easy, Japanese and US manufacturers have been doing that for nearly half a century. I bet you haven't even tested the modules at high frequencies. 1kHz is for babies. Nobody ever took 1kHz seriously as all amplifiers found it easy. Let's see some 10kHz, 15kHz and 20kHz extended tests at full power.
So, in the absence of a coherent answer, or evidence to the contrary from you, we must assume Hypex is telling the truth. And that is at odds with what you claim. How do you reconcile that?
I stayed out of this entire discussion until a few members asked me to chime in. I was enjoying a well earned break away from ASR. Sadly, I knew the direction you would take it. You cannot expect to control the narrative on everything Hypex on this forum. You cannot ignore or dismiss any valid criticism and facts everytime a discussion about Hypex comes up. You don't own the narrative in an open discussion here- the members do.
And I (and
@pma and others) will be here everytime to keep you honest, you can count on that.