TC Bankrupt..

[90accordman 5,000+ posts]

Hey I got some TC sounds t-shirts if anyones interested //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

if your giving away i'll take one lol

 

[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

Just a guess for those questioning the whole TC/Audiopulse naming thing...they're probably TC Sounds w/ Audiopulse as their DBA or something..

 

[JohnEJanowitz 10+ year member]

I know where the guy who said "repost" got it from and in his defense there were a lot of people on here who didn't believe TC was going under so they posted that TC was still in business. It might have been because those people had drivers at TC for warranty work and were hoping to have their drivers fixed.
Now that the bankruptsy is public, it pretty much sums things up. It'll be interesting to see who buys what patents (and before anyone asks - LMT is not one of them as LMT is not patented). I know who I've got my bet on for the baskets but I don't know about the surround patent.

The thing to look at with the patents is the validity of purchasing them. I really like the eclipse style frame, but the patent was in 2001. I'm not sure when it expires. If it is a 7 year patent, kinda makes it irrelevant now. The vendor in china will sell the frames as they were never paid for the tooling. Since they are in china, they can legally do this and someone in the US can legally buy them. The only issue is selling them in the US. My main market has really moved to europe where I can freely sell them without any patent violation. The tooling itself would cost from $15,000 to $18,000. So you could make a totally new frame for that cost. Considering there may only be a short time left on the patent, that it's not a unique design since they've already used it, what is it really worth? We may still consider it, but wouldn't put much money into it.

Also, since these are only design patents, even small minor changes to the look can get you by without any violation. The surround patent for the variable thickness surround could easily be challenged. JBL and others have done this for years. The idea of the bolt on and screw on frames is good in concept, not good in the way it was done. The bolt on idea was abandoned as it was too hard to center the coil. The screw on idea also didn't work so well due to tolerances. Tolerances in an aluminum casting are generally not very good. There are better ways to do a field replaceable motor.

John

 

[Johnny Drama 5,000+ posts]

Open Naow! wOOt!

 

[duece212 5,000+ posts]

yay, good to see 50 bucks wasn't well spent //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[duece212 5,000+ posts]

Guessing deleting this thread wouldn't do much when this google ad shows up on ca.com's front page //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif :

 

[Audio Junkies 10+ year member]

PowerBass didn't waste any time and is already using the basket...

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

Open Naow! wOOt!

What?

 

[mrogowski 5,000+ posts]

robotunderground.com has most of it , as well as adire... also has neo motors... talk to pat and tell him bob sent you

Nope. There is much more left over...

 

[RAM_Designs 5,000+ posts]

PowerBass didn't waste any time and is already using the basket...

^^^^sexy!

 

[mrogowski 5,000+ posts]

I agree. Those baskets are nice...

 

[mrogowski 5,000+ posts]

Guessing deleting this thread wouldn't do much when this google ad shows up on ca.com's front page //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif :

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[dragnix 5,000+ posts]

Mark needs to buy some basket and make a new line for Mach5 //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[RAM_Designs 5,000+ posts]

Mark needs to buy some basket and make a new line for Mach5 //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

agreed!

 

[Thedeadly1 10+ year member]

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