[sdiy] OT: Behringer fined $1M

[Jay Schwichtenberg]

I'm probably out of favor on this but IMHO it I wouldn't mind seeing them go
away. They're just a cheesy company trying to make a buck at other peoples
expense and not just once.

They ripped off one of the exciter/enhancer companies, they copied a Mackie
mixer got sued on that one and now this. Before I knew of this happening
(the enhancer and mixer stuff) I bought 3 of their units. 2 compressors and
an enhancer. All crapped out on me within 3 years, couldn't get schematics
and it was going to cost me almost as much as buying a new unit to get them
fixed. They ended up scrapped out for other things.

One thing that maybe some other people could comment on is the current
FCC/CE certification. When I was doing PC cards we didn't do FCC
certification, we did CE certification. It was more strict and if you passed
it you automaticly got FCC. So would that mean that the units weren't CE
approved either?

Jay S.