[sdiy] The extreme low cost of audio gear... my little comment somehow got out of hand :P

[Richard Wentk]

At 22:53 31/08/2004 -0500, Tim Curtis wrote:
>I certainly can't agree with the "well made" comment.
>Actually, I'd be hesitant to use "Behringer" and "well made" together in a 
>sentence...
>
>I never had a problem with Behringer gear until a few months ago when I 
>opened the service center doors and started getting piles and piles of 
>their crap coming through the door.
>
>I'm currently on the verge of refusing to service their products.
>
>They're some of the worst built pieces that I've run across, and believe 
>me that they have a higher failure rate than other brands - particularly 
>their mixers.  I've got a bunch of it in the shop now and get more calls 
>about broken Behringer hear than any other.
>
>Tim

Likewise with 'sounds great.' Nothing I've ever heard from Behringer has 
sounded great.

It doesn't. I think when you get borrowed engineering, very poor quality 
control and over-enthusiastic marketing from the same company it's quite 
fair to generalise about the level of cynicism with which they're doing 
business.

At least they don't make synths...

Richard