Is Behringer really that bad?

[diggy_dude]

There are products that are built down to a price rather than up to a standard and Behringer, in my opinion, seems to be such a brand.

This describes most manufacturers of consumer goods, actually. For the most part, they all use similar cost cutting strategies and end up with products of similar price and quality. When one company's product is significantly cheaper than everyone else's, you have to wonder what they cut out in order to be able to sell it so cheap.

 

[AL P]

"names" sell and they know it..they could be IDENTICAL on the inside, yet the name brand can charge more and still sell...

levi VS wrangler...LOL

I`ve heard my EP4000 amp next to a friends top of the line mackie...not impressed with the mackie, it sounded great, but for the money, naw, waste of money IMO...I`ve put my EP4000 through the wringer for some years now..still workes perfectly...of course, that`s just one product, and may not indicate al the others obviously, but still, I`ve never been impresed with names..

EDIT:, correction, is was a QSC, NOT mackie i was reffering to..sorry...

 

[Bobbsy]

QSC are a good/bad example here. Some years back, somebody took the lids off an economy QSC amp and a Behringer EP and found them nearly identical--they posted in a professional live sound newsgroup as evidence that Behringer had "stolen another design".

After weeks of back and forth, it turned out that both companies were using an off the shelf Chinese design, the minor differences being that Behringer manufactured their own in their factory there while QSC simply paid a Chinese factory to make them for them. Oh, and QSC charged almost twice as much for theirs because of the QSC name.

(FYI, QSC also make some very high quality fully professional stuff.)

So, as I say, you really can't discuss "Behringer" in general. You have to discuss specific models of gear.

 

[witzendoz]

Well lets talk about flat screen TV's Panasonic, Samsung, LG, Sharp and maybe a couple more make their own screens. Everyone else uses the screens from Panasonic, Samsung, LG and Sharp in their TV's. See for yourself.

Don't think for one minute that the music industry is any different. The is a model of graphic EQ out and about, I have seen the same graphic branded by 3 different companies and these are name companies.

Alan.

 

[Bobbsy]

Good point...and, at one stage, the LG factory made in excess of 70% of the displays sold round the world.

(And, as an aside, when I was working on a project with Philips in Eindhoven back in the late 90s and early 00s, they built a huge facility on their "campus" there to build flat screens. However, despite the millions they spent, it was mothballed before it went into production and their manufacturing was farmed out to the far east. However, I digress...)

 

[soundchaser59]

So to the big question, is Line 6 UX2's sound really that much better?

No. Behringer really is that bad.

 

[Bobbsy]

Hmmmm....I wouldn't necessarily hold up Line 6 as a paragon of audio quality!

 

[grimtraveller]

Everyone else uses the screens from Panasonic, Samsung, LG and Sharp in their TV's.
Don't think for one minute that the music industry is any different. The is a model of graphic EQ out and about, I have seen the same graphic branded by 3 different companies and these are name companies.

Off topic I know, but I used to work in a belt factory {in future job applications, I'd refer to that as a "leather goods manufacturer !"} and we used to ship the belts out to Top shop, Marks and Spencer, one big dept store in Australia and one other big store here. Each sold them for wildly varying prices according to the brand name. I used to laugh because I'd be the one that cut them from the same bit of leather !