Duped? The Outlaw team has been around the block a few times. This is one of the risks of doing business in China. You have pretty much zero recourse if a business partner tells you to hit the bricks.

I feel bad for them, but it was less of a "duping" issue and more of a "bad decision" and poor choice of partners issue. And I do think that if there was gross malfeasance, we would have seen something (albeit of dubious value to recovering their loss) in the courts. Instead we saw some vague griping and allegations without any actual company names along with the product cancellation.

The whole thing left me scratching my head and wasn't particularly confidence inspiring for my already strained view of the competence of the Outlaw management team. Sounds kinda harsh, I know, but there it is. Sigh...

Best,

Hello,

Not sure if this would be a new topic ? Dolby Atmos & Pro logic IIz.

So the Atmos function can add two to four ceiling and/or upward firing speakers but will the Outlaw processor also include Height and Wide function as well

Front L,R
Center
Height L,R
FT Wide L,R
Surround L,R
Ceiling L,R

sdurani, In the article you posted the link to, I noticed this comment: "Other manufacturers used conventional ceiling speakers, which to me sounded better because they don't need the extra processing."

S.Sharkey, Outlaw were not duped.
Ritz2, Outlaw management was neither naïve nor stupid.
There is no way to predict that a CEM (Contract Electronics Manufacturer) will be told, without warning, by a large customer that the CEM must tell a smaller customer (Outlaw) to pack up and leave. VERY unethical on the part of the large customer, of course. It's a risk, but in my years of manufacturing in China, I've never seen it happen, or even heard of it until this Outlaw misfortune.