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Select Tech Stories from CEDIA Expo 2022

October 6, 2022 by Ted 5 Comments

floor traffic at CEDIA Expo 2022

This post will present some of the top tech stories from CEDIA Expo 2022. You know, covering a trade show like Expo has always been a particular challenge for me. As someone who is always looking for a good story, going to a trade show with hundreds of exhibits is a bit like trying to take a sip of water from a fire hose. Nonetheless, I was able to discover several stories I found particularly interesting and I hope you’ll like them too.

Read on for my select tech stories from CEDIA Expo 2022

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Filed Under: Brands, Integrators, Manufacturers, News, Products, Shows & Events Tagged With: AudioControl, Crestron, Draper, Hunter Douglas, Legrand, Lenbrook, Netgear, Savant, Snap One, Sonance, Sonos, Sound United

Lenbrook Agrees to Pay Royalties to End Sonos Patent Lawsuit

July 30, 2020 by Ted 5 Comments

Sonos logo

Sonos Inc. and Lenbrook Industries announced today that they have reached a settlement agreement bringing the patent litigation brought by Sonos to a close. The agreement is confidential, so no terms were disclosed.

Another win for Sonos; Read on for more…

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Filed Under: Law, Tech Trends, Technology Tagged With: Bluesound, Greg Stidsen, Lenbrook, Lenbrook America, Lenbrook Industries Limited, The Lenbrook Group

Giving No Ground, Lenbrook Launches Robust Retaliation to Sonos Lawsuit

October 20, 2019 by Ted Leave a Comment

Lenbrook Group logo

After receiving a stipulation allowing them more time to respond, Lenbrook Industries Ltd, and Lenbrook America, last week filed their response to the Sonos patent litigation they were hit with in June. It was a robust and smart response that clearly communicated that Lenbrook planned to give no ground in this dispute.

While perhaps not quite as audacious as the D&M response when they were first dealt the blow of litigation…Lenbrook offered a smart and savvy response that not only pushed back but seemingly undercuts many of Sonos’ core allegations..and patents.

Sonos v Lenbrook is heating up…who has the advantage?…

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Filed Under: Brands, Law, Manufacturers, News, Products, Strategy, Tech Trends Tagged With: lawsuit, Lenbrook, litigation, patent infringement, patents, Sonos

CEDIA 2019: Lenbrook Launches Array of New Models from Multiple Specialty Brands

September 26, 2019 by Ted 1 Comment

Stephen Baker of Lenbrook showing their CEDIA Best New Product award
Lenbrook Senior Director of Sales Stephen Baker showing CEDIA Best New Product award [Click to enlarge]

At the the CEDIA Expo earlier this month, Lenbrook had a substantial launch of multiple new models from their collection of brands. Firmly positioned in the mid- to high-end technology market, the new products from Bluesound, Dali, NAD, and PSB continued to forge a path into the new digital audiophile market with high-quality streaming models and high-end in-wall and on-wall speaker and subwoofer solutions.

And in the case of one model, it was an award-winning presentation…

See more on Lenbrook’s new products…

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Filed Under: Brands, Management, Manufacturers, News, Products, Sales Reps, Shows & Events, Strategy, Tech Trends Tagged With: CEDIA Expo, Lenbrook

Lenbrook Responds to Sonos Lawsuit, It Will ‘Defend Vigorously the Claims’

June 26, 2019 by Ted 4 Comments

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Strata-gee reported yesterday that late last week Sonos had filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Lenbrook Industries Limited and Lenbrook America. This suit, which is almost identical to the one Sonos had successfully pursued with D&M Holdings and Denon over its HEOS line, was resolved in Sonos’s favor a little over a year ago.

Now we have Lenbrook’s response to this development – the company says it will “defend vigorously the claims of patent infringement made by computer audio company Sonos…”

See what else Lenbrook had to say about the Sonos suit…

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Filed Under: Brands, Law, Management, Manufacturers, News, Products, Strategy, Tech Trends Tagged With: Bluesound, Lenbrook, Lenbrook America, Lenbrook Industries Limited, licensing, patents

Music System Sales Sagging, Sonos Un-Leashes Lawyers to Raise Revenues

June 26, 2019 by Ted Leave a Comment

BREAKING NEWS

Sonos system photo

Strata-gee reported just yesterday that Sonos, Inc. has sued Lenbrook Industries Ltd. & Lenbrook America – the maker & marketer of Bluesound – for patent infringement. Undoubtedly emboldened by their near-complete victory over Denon’s HEOS brand a little over a year ago, Sonos appears to have targeted Lenbrook to be next in line.

However, Strata-gee has learned that Lenbrook is not the only company targeted for such potential actions by Sonos. There are more – perhaps many more – in our industry lined up for this “hit” parade.

See what Strata-gee learned about Sono’s legal strategy…

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Filed Under: Brands, Law, Management, Manufacturers, News, Products, Specialty, Strategy, Tech Trends Tagged With: Bluesound, Lenbrook, Lenbrook America, Lenbrook Industries Limited, licensing, royalty, Sonos, The Lenbrook Group, wireless, wireless music systems, wireless speakers

Denon Defeated, Sonos Sics Lawyers on Lenbrook

June 25, 2019 by Ted Leave a Comment

Sonos logo

On Thursday last week, Sonos, Inc. (NASDAQ: SONO) filed another patent infringement lawsuit, this time against Lenbrook Industries Limited and Lenbrook America Corp. At issue here is Lenbrook’s Bluesound brand launched back in 2013 to great fanfare as Strata-gee reported on at the time…and also discussed here…and which Sonos claims infringes on multiple Sonos patents.

See more on the Sonos suit vs Lenbrook…

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Filed Under: Brands, Law, Manufacturers, News, Strategy Tagged With: Bluesound, Lenbrook, litigation, patent, Sonos

Lenbrook Previews NAD M10 Hi-Res Streamer to NY Press

June 20, 2019 by Ted Leave a Comment

Lenbrook's Greg Stidsen presenting the NAD M10 BluOS Streaming Amplifier

On Tuesday, Lenbrook invited members of the media to an “intimate album listening party” in Manhattan’s trendy Soho district. Despite the fact that the weather was less than cooperative – with warm, extremely humid temps, and at times torrential rainfall – there was an bar and hors d’oeuvres, which is always a strong draw. Maybe a strong enough draw to entice an editor from New Jersey into Manhattan in the traffic and the rain!

But this listening party turned out to be a bit of a preview opportunity for an interesting and relatively new product – a streaming amplifier. And not just any streaming amplifier, mind you – but a streaming amplifier being launched in the NAD Master series. That got my attention…

See NAD’s interesting new M10 Masters Streaming Amplifier…

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Filed Under: Manufacturers, Marketing, Products, Strategy Tagged With: Greg Stidsen, Lenbrook, PSB, streaming, streaming audio

8 Years Later, Lenbrook Returns to Independent Reps

May 9, 2019 by Ted Leave a Comment

From Independent…to Direct…to ‘Hybrid’

Lenbrook Americas logo

It was clearly one of the most explosive stories I wrote back in May 2011 generating tons of email and phone calls in response. The topic? Lenbrook, darling of the specialty A/V channel that for decades had been selling specialty products through specialty reps to specialty dealers – had decided to terminate their entire network of independent specialty sales representatives. Dean Miller, who had just joined the organization, would go on to construct a dedicated full-time staff of salespeople that would represent only NAD and PSB products.

Now, almost exactly eight years later, Lenbrook has decided to return to utilizing independent sales representatives in their sales network. But why?

See why Lenbrook is going back to reps…

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Filed Under: Brands, News, Sales Reps, Strategy Tagged With: Bluesound, BluOS, Dali, Lenbrook, Lenbrook America, NAD

Lenbrook Announces Passing of Top NAD Engineer

December 26, 2018 by Ted 1 Comment

Bjorn Erik EdvardsenCalling him one of NAD’s “foundational personalities,” Lenbrook announced last week the passing of Björn Erik Edvardsen. Edvardsen was not as well-known here in the United States as he was in Europe, but was considered by those close to NAD as a key engineer instrumental to the company’s long term success.

See more on this year-end passing of top NAD engineer Björn Erik Edvardsen… [Read more…] about Lenbrook Announces Passing of Top NAD Engineer

Filed Under: News, People Tagged With: Edward Erik Edvardsen, Lenbrook, NAD

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