So here we go. Recently I have had two DJ's come in to play for events at my venue bringing in what we all know are basically illegal chinese lasers. HOWEVER... here is the kicker. The company is based in Brooklyn, NY (X-Static) and I have seen them have booths at major shows such as the Atlantic City DJ Expo. They carry a wide variety of LED lighting, moving heads, fog machines, etc. and of course lasers.
Here is their web site:
http://www.xstaticusa.com/index.php
Here are the two lasers a DJ recently brought in:
http://www.xstaticusa.com/Eletra/product-details.html
http://www.xstaticusa.com/X-LRGB300_...t-details.html
I inspected the lasers when he brought them in and as luck would have it, one had a bad scanner so wasn't working properly and the other had a dead green module so, in the end, he didn't use them. I explained to him my background (there was a language barrier as this was a spanish event with a spanish DJ) he asked me to keep them and look into fixing them. He'd spent quite a bit of money on them and since I "know what I'm talking about" (read: have him fooled) he wanted me to clean them up and get them working for him.
Now... pics of the first one:
The label:
The back:
The second unit:
The label:
The only other identifying mark:
I gave them a glance the next day and checked their output wiith a meter I don't necessarily trust and came in around 18-22mW out the window but, they've obviously had a hard life and were screwed up to begin with.
I'm probably not fixing them and am giving them back this afternoon I suppose but my issue is this...
If a dj or otherwise can walk into a store in the US and buy these units or, even walk up to a booth at a major DJ Expo in Atlantic City and buy these and they bring them in, how do I argue the point that they're illegal chinese lasers and they can't use them without acting like a dick or like I don't know what I'm talking about when they clearly may have bought them from a US company in the US and have been using them for ages everywhere else.
Not to drag them into it but I know it irks X-Laser as well and, their booth this past year was only about 40-50 feet away from X-Static who clearly had their products operating and shining graphics on the ceiling.
Especially when they (X-Laser) sell something LEGAL like this as well:
http://www.xstaticusa.com/Quad%20Hea...t-details.html
Grr...