L-Acoustics speaker (trademark) counterfeiters sentenced in China

[Jay Ashworth]

Another counterfeiting story, this one about speakers.

Have you bought any L-A's lately?

L-Acoustics Anti-Counterfeiting Task Force update: counterfeiters sentenced to prison - Sound & Video Contractor

The manufacturer recently had illegal counterfeit ARCS II loudspeakers seized and destroyed

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[TimMc]

Nope, we don't have French loudspeakers in our shop... But it's good to see l'Acoustic defending their IP rights and getting convictions in China.

We briefly had a casino account with an installed counterfeit JBL VerTec system. The Crown I-Tech HDs (with JBL presets) were genuine but the loudspeakers were not. The people that *knowingly* approved the use and installation of counterfeit products were gone before we left the building but the system, AFAIK, is still there and in use. It's a horrible piece 'o' excrement to attempt to make sound "right" in a room that's 80% reflective. A full house only damps half the reflections so the audience is doomed to hear that noise again...