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EXHIBIT 10.81
EIGHTH AMENDMENT TO LOAN AND SECURITY AGREEMENT
     THIS EIGHTH AMENDMENT TO LOAN AND SECURITY AGREEMENT (this “Amendment”), dated as of July ___, 2008, is entered into among WACHOVIA CAPITAL FINANCE CORPORATION (WESTERN), a California corporation formerly known as Congress Financial Corporation (Western) (“Agent”), as administrative and collateral agent for the Lenders party to the Loan Agreement (as defined below) from time to time (“Lenders”), WACHOVIA CAPITAL FINANCE CORPORATION (WESTERN), a California corporation formerly known as Congress Financial Corporation (Western), as a Lender (“Wachovia”), and ROCKFORD CORPORATION, an Arizona corporation (“Borrower Agent”).
RECITALS
     A. Agent, Wachovia, Wachovia Bank, National Association, as arranger, Borrower Agent and Audio Innovations, Inc., an Oklahoma corporation (“AII”) have previously entered into that certain Loan and Security Agreement dated March 29, 2004 as amended by the First Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement and Conditional Default Waiver dated as of June 10, 2004, the Second Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement dated as of December 30, 2004, the Third Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement dated as of August 31, 2005, the Fourth Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement and Consent dated as of March 21, 2006, the Fifth Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement dated as of August 31, 2006, the Sixth Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement dated as of March 7, 2007 and the Seventh Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement dated as of November 28, 2007 (the “Loan Agreement”), pursuant to which Wachovia has made certain loans and financial accommodations available to Borrower Agent and AII. Terms used herein without definition shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Loan Agreement.
     B. AII has since dissolved.
     C. Borrower Agent has requested Agent and Wachovia to amend the Loan Agreement in certain respects, and Agent and Wachovia are willing to accommodate such request on the terms and conditions set forth herein.
     D. Borrower Agent is entering into this Amendment with the understanding and agreement that, except as specifically provided herein, none of Agent’s or Lenders’ rights or remedies as set forth in the Loan Agreement is being waived or modified by the terms of this Amendment.
AGREEMENT
     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the mutual covenants herein contained, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereby agree as follows:

 


 

     1. Amendments to Loan Agreement.
          (a) Capital Stock. The following proviso is hereby added at the end of Section 9.11:
     “; provided, that, Borrower Agent may repurchase or redeem its Capital Stock so long as (i) the aggregate sum of the payments made on account of such repurchases and redemptions do not exceed Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000), (ii) the Excess Availability (before giving effect to the Permanent Reserve) was not less than Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000) at any time during the thirty (30) days immediately preceding the date of any such repurchase or redemption, and will not be less than Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000) on that date after giving effect to such repurchase or redemption, (iii) at least five (5) Business Days before any such repurchase or redemption, Borrower Agent furnishes Agent with a liquidity projection in form and substance satisfactory to Agent demonstrating that the Excess Availability (before giving effect to the Permanent Reserve) will not be less than Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000) at any time during the thirty (30) days immediately following the date of such repurchase or redemption, and (iv) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing. The failure to maintain Excess Availability (before giving effect to the Permanent Reserve) of at least Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000) at all times during the thirty (30) days immediately following the date of any such repurchase or redemption shall be deemed an Event of Default hereunder.”
     The repurchases and redemptions permitted under the foregoing proviso shall be in addition to those consented to in Section 2(a) of the Seventh Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement dated as of November 28, 2007.
          (b) EBITDA. Section 9.17.1 of the Loan Agreement is hereby amended and restated to read in its entirety as follows:
     “9.17.1 EBITDA. Borrowers and their Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, shall earn EBITDA, during each period of twelve (12) consecutive months ending on the last day of any fiscal quarter, of not less than $3,000,000. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if on the last day of any of the foregoing periods, the Excess Availability before giving effect to the Permanent Reserve, minus the sum of (a) all of the Borrowers’ trade payables that are then more than thirty (30) days past due, plus (b) all of the Borrowers’ obligations and liabilities (other than trade payables) that are then past due, exceeds $2,000,000, then Borrowers will not be required to comply with the foregoing minimum consolidated EBITDA covenant for the specific period then ending.
     For the purposes hereof, ‘EBITDA’ shall mean the net income of Borrowers and their Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied, but excluding any extraordinary or one-time gains, plus (a) depreciation, amortization and other non-cash charges (to the extent deducted in the computation of such net income), plus (b) Interest Expense (to the extent deducted in the

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computation of such net income), plus (c) charges for federal, state, local and foreign income taxes (to the extent deducted in the computation of such income).”
     2. Effectiveness of this Amendment. Agent must have received the following items, in form and content acceptable to Agent, before this Amendment is effective.
          (a) Amendment; Acknowledgement. This Amendment and the attached Acknowledgement by Guarantor, each fully executed in a sufficient number of counterparts for distribution to all parties.
          (b) Amendment Fee. An amendment fee in the amount of Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000), which fee shall be paid to Agent by Borrower Agent on or before the date hereof and is fully earned as of the date hereof.
          (c) Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties set forth herein and in the Loan Agreement must be true and correct.
          (d) Other Required Documentation. All other documents and legal matters in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Amendment shall have been delivered or executed or recorded and shall be in form and substance satisfactory to Agent.
     3. Representations and Warranties. Borrower Agent represents and warrants as follows:
          (a) Authority. Borrower Agent has the requisite corporate power and authority to execute and deliver this Amendment, and to perform its obligations hereunder and under the Financing Agreements (as amended or modified hereby) to which it is a party. The execution, delivery and performance by Borrower Agent of this Amendment have been duly approved by all necessary corporate action and no other corporate proceedings are necessary to consummate such transactions.
          (b) Enforceability. This Amendment has been duly executed and delivered by Borrower Agent. This Amendment and each Financing Agreement (as amended or modified hereby) is the legal, valid and binding obligation of Borrower Agent, enforceable against Borrower Agent in accordance with its terms, and is in full force and effect.
          (c) Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties contained in each Financing Agreement (other than any such representations or warranties that, by their terms, are specifically made as of a date other than the date hereof) are correct on and as of the date hereof as though made on and as of the date hereof.
          (d) Due Execution. The execution, delivery and performance of this Amendment are within the power of Borrower Agent, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action, have received all necessary governmental approval, if any, and do not contravene any law or any contractual restrictions binding on Borrower Agent.

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          (e) No Default. No event has occurred and is continuing that constitutes an Event of Default.
     4. Choice of Law. The validity of this Amendment, its construction, interpretation and enforcement, and the rights of the parties hereunder, shall be determined under, governed by, and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of California governing contracts only to be performed in that State.
     5. Counterparts. This Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties and separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered, shall be deemed an original, and all of which, when taken together, shall constitute one and the same instrument. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this Amendment by telefacsimile shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Amendment.
     6. Reference to and Effect on the Financing Agreements.
          (a) Upon and after the effectiveness of this Amendment, each reference in the Loan Agreement to “this Agreement”, “hereunder”, “hereof” or words of like import referring to the Loan Agreement, and each reference in the other Financing Agreements to “the Loan Agreement”, “thereof” or words of like import referring to the Loan Agreement, shall mean and be a reference to the Loan Agreement as modified and amended hereby.
          (b) Except as specifically amended above, the Loan Agreement and all other Financing Agreements, are and shall continue to be in full force and effect and are hereby in all respects ratified and confirmed and shall constitute the legal, valid, binding and enforceable obligations of Borrower Agent to Agent and Lenders.
          (c) The execution, delivery and effectiveness of this Amendment shall not, except as expressly provided herein, operate as a waiver of any right, power or remedy of Agent or any Lender under any of the Financing Agreements, nor constitute a waiver of any provision of any of the Financing Agreements.
          (d) To the extent that any terms and conditions in any of the Financing Agreements shall contradict or be in conflict with any terms or conditions of the Loan Agreement, after giving effect to this Amendment, such terms and conditions are hereby deemed modified or amended accordingly to reflect the terms and conditions of the Loan Agreement as modified or amended hereby.
     7. Integration. This Amendment and the Loan Agreement as amended, together with the other Financing Agreements, incorporates all negotiations of the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and is the final expression and agreement of the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof.
     8. Severability. In case any provision in this Amendment shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, such provision shall be severable from the remainder of this Amendment and the

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validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have entered into this Amendment as of the date first above written.
             
    ROCKFORD CORPORATION    
 
           
 
  By:
 
 
  Name:
 
   
 
           
 
  Title:
 
 
           
 
           
    WACHOVIA CAPITAL FINANCE
CORPORATION (WESTERN),
as Agent and as a Lender
 
           
 
  By:
 
 
           
 
  Name:        
 
           
 
  Title:
 
 
           

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT BY GUARANTOR
Dated as of July ___, 2008
     The undersigned, being a guarantor (“Guarantor”) under its Guaranty and Security Agreement dated March 29, 2004, made in favor of Agent and Lenders (as amended, modified or supplemented, the “Guaranty”) hereby acknowledges and agrees to the foregoing Eighth Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement (the “Amendment”) and confirms and agrees that the Guaranty is and shall continue to be, in full force and effect and is hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects except that, upon the effectiveness of, and on and after the date of the Amendment, each reference in the Guaranty to the Loan Agreement (as defined in the Amendment), “thereunder”, “thereof” or words of like import referring to the “Loan Agreement”, shall mean and be a reference to the Loan Agreement as amended or modified by the Amendment. Although Lender has informed Guarantor of the matters set forth above, and Guarantor has acknowledged the same, Guarantor understands and agrees that Lender has no duty under the Loan Agreement, the Guaranty or any other agreement with Guarantor to so notify Guarantor or to seek such an acknowledgement, and nothing contained herein is intended to or shall create such a duty as to any advances or transaction hereafter.
             
    MB QUART SHANGHAI, INC.    
 
           
 
  By:
 
 
  Name:  
 
   
 
           
 
  Title:
 
 
           

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