Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, Stephanie <sellison-unix@a...> 
wrote:
> why I should by a Roland amp.  Is it the quality, really, or just 
the name 
> brand recognition?  Is a Roland really better than a Behringer?

Steph,

I'll tell you what I know and have heard. Roland amps do sound 
pretty good in my experience, but they don't have a lock on decent 
sound. There's no reason why a Yamaha, JBL, or any number of other 
serious music-industry amps won't strike you as just as good or 
better. Building an amp at a certain price point is hardly brain 
science these days. Build quality and attention to detail (not 
cutting corners in parts) are often the distinguishing 
characteristics. So far as Behringer is concerned, as I've written 
before in an attempt to be funny, the company appears to have more 
suits in their legal closet than Cher does in her backstage one. It 
has often been taken to task for stealing patents, Mackies' most 
notably, if memory serves. The reliability track record isn't 
stellar, either, though it tends to be hit or miss. A few people in 
this board are happy with the mixers that they've bought. Again, 
technically, many of these products are fairly simple designs; most 
of them are going to work okay.

Ed