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mharr552000
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I've owned one piece of Behringer gear. It was some Sonic Maximizer/Exciter thing. It worked fine, but was noisey as fuck. I actually made $8 when I sold it on eBay.
Rodger Hartlett said:i have never bought a behringer product and probably never will after reading that.
djhead said:I feel bad. I own several pieces of Behringer gear and didnt know about this. I mean i knew they were cheap knock offs, but i guess i didnt know about the legality of it.
Now I feel like i shopped at Wal Mart.![]()
RDMSstudio said:Behringer is a bit like desposable razors.... If you need to shave but can't afford a good razor you buy what you can... sure there's better gear... sure it's cheap... what the issue is really about is value for money. Is a preamp that costs 10 times as much ten times as good? NO, because audio equipment costs are incremental..... An Avalon mastering EQ is better than just about any other EQ around... but at $18,000AUS how many people buy one? Fit for purpose is what we need to think about.. For people starting out with limited budgets and untrained ears stuff like Behringer and Alto's get's people started... Later on they upgrade as ears and wallets get better positioned... So let's stop bagging the cheaper gear manufacturers, they provide a service and aren't trying to be something they're not....
ADATlove said:So......anybody want to buy a Behringer MX-2442a Eurodesk?
brandrum said:my beef with them isn't their business practices, it their shitty gear.
sorry to hear that...nothing pisses me off more than new gear going out on me.djhead said:why is it i always find out about this shit after its too late. I bought one of their bass amps, just to screw around on, yeah, its fried. God damn it![]()
xstatic said:Ethics aside, the gear is still pretty cheap. The compressors, EQ's, preamps, converters etc... They all sound pretty bad to me. Even the headphone amp (which I do own) sounds pretty bad. If you think that any of it sounds good, it is most likely because you really haven't used anything better before.
c7sus said:They're not sticking it to the man
THEY'RE STICKING IT TO YOU!!!
You're buying designs ripped-off from guys like Greg Mackie that love him or hate him was building all of his stuff in the US of A until Behringer came along.
Soundmind?? said:I'll bet that all those who think it's OK for Behri@#%*& to violate ethics, patent laws, FCC rules, etc just to get a cheaper product on the market wouldn't mind a bit if their music was pirated would they??? Just think about it, you spend weeks writing, rehearsing, and finally u get that big hit you've been dreaming about, then you get about 10% of the income you should have gotten because pirates copy and mass produce it for much less than your "R&D" and production costs. Wouldn't that be cool!! Cheap music, I don't care how I got it! Think about it when you buy products from less than honest companies.
EDAN said:Welcome to the real world. Ever wonder why there are hundreds if not thousands of guitar makers making guitars that look almost exactly like a Fender Strat? Every manufacturer takes from others. You can find fault with and a reason not to buy from all of them if you want to.