while i agree with you in spirit, specs are specs. sometimes specs are misreported for sure and often they are misleading. sound ultimately transcends specs
i was comparing the specs of the stellar and the stock fathead.
Misreported I'm not so worried about... misleading, that's pretty much what specs ARE when it comes to audio. The specs they like to quote, including frequency response and THD, are usually irrelevant nonsense that tell you very little about how a device SOUNDS. THD specs on amplifiers are my pet peeve... they're basically measuring the sum of all harmonic distortion while reproducing a sine wave at 1khz into a resistive load. This has NOTHING to do with MUSIC, which spans ten audible octaves and a good 60db of dynamics (that's a milliwatt to a kilowatt of power!), as reproduced by an incredibly reactive load (speakers). Worse, amps with low THD on a static resistive load often behave very badly in the whirlwind of inductive, capacitive, and mechanically stored energy that is a speaker's load.
Of course, that stuff is darn near impossible to meaningfully measure, so we brag "specs" about THD, which is about as meaningful as stating how well a car drives 50mph on a flat straight road.
That's just one example of the spec game. Needless to say, after building my own speakers, amps, and guitars for long enough, I stopped believing anything but my ears, and I have my doubts about them.