Counterfeit / Fake Products
Counterfeit products sometimes use our brand identity. Contact us with your product serial number to determine its legitimacy as a genuine Milbert Amplifiers product. Authorities may offer reward for identifying thieves.
"Lower minds copy and steal; inferiority is their plague, fouling every dealing."
"There is scarcely anything in the world that some men cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey." - John Ruskin
"The people who can play will continue to play, and the people who steal and copy will continue to be bad imitations and thieves." - Buddy Rich, drummer
"Showing off a rip-off brands one a fool; continuing despite knowing is worse."
Registered in 1996, milbert.com on archive.org proves provenance dating from 1997.
Blatant Thieves and Liars
"Milbert Audio (Asia)" is entirely fraudulent.
Formed in Nov 2025, facebook.com/MilbertAudio is entirely fraudulent.
This person/company (facebook.com/milbertaudio) is actively using facebook.com to impersonate our company, infringe our trademark, advertise counterfeit goods, and spread false information.
Their broadcast communication is fraudulent, false information and trademark infringement:
"Milbert Celestial" product is entirely fraudulent.
"Milbert Oracle" product is entirely fraudulent.
"Milbert Envoy" product is entirely fraudulent.
"Milbert Believers" product is entirely fraudulent.
"Milbert Confidence" product is entirely fraudulent.
Trademark Infringement
"Thank you for alerting us to the infringement of our trademark. We do not produce these amplifiers nor deal with this company. If you do, you are being stooged, fooled, and participating in fraud. Such disgrace: Liars have taken your money and pride. https://milbert.com/piracy"
August 2026
On facebook, a person/company named "Xtremez Audio at Sin Ming Autocity" AKA "Milbert Audio (Asia)" is peddling equipment fraudulently marked "Milbert" in blatant trademark infringement.
"Thank you for alerting us to the infringement of our trademark. We do not produce these amplifiers nor deal with this company. If you do, you are being stooged, fooled, and participating in fraud. Such disgrace: Liars have taken your money and your pride. https://milbert.com/piracy" -- Within minutes of us having posted this onto their image/story, they blocked us and/or hid/removed it from their facebook page (facebook.com/MilbertAudio).
Indentity of fraudsters --
April 2026
Chinese CELESTIAL 1 "Tenjin" -- Another fake product that Milbert Amplifiers never produced, does not authorize, and identifies as fraudulent. If you bought this, you were duped, fooled, stooged by unabashed thieves who took your money and your pride.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2717995808566905
"Beautiful amp. Too bad it has a milbert logo on it. Name it anything other than this and you would get alot more attention that is positive and not the negativity associated with the stealing of a brand/logo. Honestly..." -- John Daniel Wanamaker, facebook
May 2022
The transistorized amplifier shown below was never produced by us. Any buyers have been fooled and with each use or showing of this phaeke product make a greater fool of themselves.
2010
The transistorized amplifier shown below was never produced by Milbert Amplifiers. Any buyers have been fooled and with each use or showing of this phaeke product make a greater fool of themselves.
Indonesia
The following products are illegitimate fakes; we never produced them. Several people have contacted us for service, however, attesting to poor quality and no support. If you own one of these fake products then you have been swindled and you are in possession of an illegitimate copy while thieves are in possession of your money and your pride:
- MII-600
- M275 or M-275 (2x75 hybrid tube)
- BA 235
- BA 331
- BaM-302
- BaM-331
- BaM-332
- BaM-425
- BaM-475
- TC-5r serial number H277098
"The cost of undetected counterfeits for electronic companies is upwards of $100 billion per year, and just faux semiconductors alone has cost the industry $10 billion." - Business Week, 9 March 2010; ECN Magazine, Sep 2011, p. 26
Known Missing or Stolen Products
Contact us if you would like products or information added to this list.
- California, 2006 -- a BaM-235 car tube amplifier was stolen along with an expensive vehicle. The vehicle was later recovered, the amplifier was not. Please email any relevant information and we will forward it to the owner.
- In 1994, five BaM-230 amplifiers disappeared off a delivery truck in or around Dulles, Virginia. The freight carrier, DHL, may still offer reward for information and/or recovery. Contact us for details.
