[Roc Mixwell]

Unfortunately, you will continue to find differences with all of these preamps!

Thats the best part!!!!

Its TOTALLY WORTH renting some esoteric gear to do this shootout if you can. I'd recommend Eclipse Audio in Atlanta if they are in your neck of the woods.

If your planning on buying a better pre, your money is better spent trying some high end pre's that you might also be interested in purchasing; This will be the only way to find out if its up your alley aesthetically.

Its really worth demoing a couple preamps from a dealer that will let you demo some units and return the loser, so as to make an educated choice about the purchase. I mean, you'll never really know which one sounds better for your music and your existing equipment and instruments until you try them both on the same source.

Some people LOVE dollar store audio equipment, mainly because its cheap and sounds good for certain stuff, like LO-FI destruction and effects. I don't think its very musical....but again I guess it depends on your music.

If you were asking me, without even hearing the Behringer pre, I know the other stuff sounds "better". But I'm not making your record, and If I was, I'd want to use a studio that didn't have racks of Ultra-Comps and "invisible mic pres". Maybe headphone boxes, but nothing else!!!