FTC Seeks Comments by Sept. 26 to Update its Home Amplifier Rule
Comments are due Sept. 26 on the FTC’s proposal to update its 1974 amplifier rule by requiring sellers making power claims in marketing amplifiers for home entertainment products “to calculate power output using uniform testing methods to allow consumers to…
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easily compare amplifier sound quality” (see 2207050055), said a notice in Wednesday’s Federal Register. Numerous commenters in a 2020 notice-and-comment proceeding urged the FTC to consider imposing uniform test conditions to address consumer confusion “resulting from advertising of unrealistic power outputs,” said the agency earlier this month.