提醒已拥有及想购買 M&K 产品的网兄，小心购入假貨

hlwsssfuhuo

我在新泽西一个网站看到S-150买400多美金一只……

HiViUser

交易区新帖推荐

较新相关資料  [s:8] [s:8] [s:13] [s:13]

AVS Forum P.9 #267 --> http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=744887&page=9&pp=30&highlight=MK

原帖由 Steve Zodiac at AVS Forum #267 于 2007-4-18 12:51 发表
Barry forwarded your email to me over the weekend and I would like to thank you for writing. Your email both solves a mystery and also opens a very big "Pandora's Box" for us at M&K. I'm Ken Kreisel, founder and President of M&K. Let me explain about your MP-150's by telling you a little M&K history which you might find of interest. Sorry if the "little" story gets too long:

I founded M&K in 1974 in Beverly Hills, California, at the age of 24, and I proudly admit to always being obsessed with quality and performance. From the very first speaker we ever built, every one was built and tested in our California factory using the world's best laboratory grade test microphones and acoustic test equipment and then every speaker was carefully listened to by trained "ears" to find flaws that the test equipment could not find. In 1999 we decided to produce a lower cost speaker line in China called the M&K K-Series which we contracted to a well respected USA firm called ACI (Audio Components International) which specializes in sub-contracting and supervising Chinese based speaker manufacturing for many of the major USA speaker companies. I insisted that all K-Series speakers be 99.9% assembled and fully tested in China and then shipped to our USA factory for complete M&K inspection and full acoustic testing. Everyone told me I was crazy to spend the extra money to ship 100% of the Chinese built product to the USA for testing as ACI and their vendor in China builds and tests speakers for the world's top brands. I was vindicated when we received one shipment of 5000 defective speakers which would have been delivered to worldwide customers had they been shipped directly from the Chinese factory.

In 2005, after several years of improved Chinese quality, Tommy Draffen (owner of ACI) and I decided it was time to try 100% Chinese built and tested M&K K-Series product which would be shipped from China directly to worldwide customers. The first K-Series direct shipments were very well received by our international distributors, including our UK distributor Gecko owned by Rob Sinden. Tommy Draffen and I decided to test the waters and move our very successful M&K 750THX System products to China for direct shipments to worldwide customers. During the development phase, it was a struggle to achieve M&K level quality from 750THX samples built in China. For the first production run in early 2006 we sent M&K's head of engineering to China to supervise and train the Chinese QC personnel. He was satisfied the quality was OK and the Chinese factory went into full production on the various speakers and subwoofer that comprise the M&K 750 THX System.

By May 2006 as portions of the various production runs came to the USA we did full testing on them and could see that about 30% of the speakers did not meet our or THX standards before repaired. Our M&K testing standards and personnel for our least expensive products are the same as for our multi-thousand dollar professional speakers we build for the world's most discerning studios. So, I admit, many of the speaker defects we find may never be heard by the average home listener, but I know M&K owners appreciate knowing their M&K speakers are tested and calibrated to our highest professional standards. Unfortunately, some of the defects we found in ACI's production runs included shorted crossovers (as you found) and out-of-phase wired speaker drivers, indicating that the speakers were never even tested before leaving the Chinese factory. I have attached two photos of a typical shorted ACI crossover.

While all of this was going on, ACI's owner was trying to convince me to move our S-150 THX Ultra Speaker System to China for full turnkey production for worldwide distribution. I told him the 150THX product was far more complicated to build and I didn't see how they could produce the quality M&K needed.

By this time we were having several disputes with ACI, not the least of which was over the quality issue. By September 2006 we discovered that ACI was shipping M&K product "out the backdoor" from China, including to Gecko in the UK, without any M&K control over the product.

Sorry for this long story, but, I didn't think you would understand about your MP150's in high gloss without knowing some of the above background: About a year ago we ordered a small quantity of high gloss MP150 empty cabinets from ACI, to be shipped from China to the USA without drivers or crossover and then built by M&K into finished MP150 high gloss speakers. We have never worked with ACI to build complete MP150's, or SS-150's or S-150's or MX-350 subs. ACI is absolutely not authorized or licensed in any way to build MP150's, or SS-150's, or S-150's or S-150 System products. So, I am sorry to tell you that your MP-150 speakers are a bogus counterfeit speaker. We have absolutely no way to know what drivers or crossovers or anything else is in your speaker, or if it resembles in anyway a real MP-150.

Robin Sinden of Gecko, whom I assume imported your speakers into the UK, must be knowingly selling counterfeit M&K speakers as he didn't buy them from M&K, he must be buying them from China through ACI or the Chinese factory, probably at a discounted price! I think the Chinese do the same with Rolex watches! Perhaps I should consider this imitation the kindest form of flattery! We have been trying to get information from Mr. Sinden for many months as to what is going on regarding his suspected "backdoor" purchases from ACI. Our lawyers and ACI's lawyers have been going at it for months. All of this has been a huge drain on M&K and a large loss of revenue.

Your MP-150 situation is the first we have heard that any 150 product was being counterfeit out of China. Any more information you can share with us would be most helpful in our legal dispute.

Has your dealer been able to make any projections when they might expect the SS-150's? As far as I know, we have no SS-150's on order from Gecko so I assume these also will be counterfeit out of China.

Normally I end my correspondence with GOOD SOUND TO YOU.....ALWAYS, and I certainly wish you that and hope I can be of some help in getting you some real M&K speakers sometime in the near future.

Look forward to hearing back from you and sorry you are going through this when you just want great M&K sound.

GOOD SOUND TO YOU.....ALWAYS,

KEN KREISEL  

lobo

此贴也应该加精,目的不是为了给作者加分,而是提醒各位------原来有这么一回事!

zhoulong1

有查证买到假货的上来说一下，别不出声转让2手卖掉啊