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Originally Posted by Jim vanBergen
Damn, ANYTHING but Behringer. Are you unaware of their history stealing circuit designs and patents? That practice destroys the integrity of the entire audio industry.
In a mixing perspective, Mackie is a huge step up, but why stop there? What's wrong with Midas Heriage 3000, Yamaha PM5D, DiGiCo D1, Cadac J-type, Soundcraft Series 5, and the list goes on and on and on. If it's a matter of money, tell me what you have to spend, and I'll tell you what you can get, whether it's $5.00 or 500k....
but you don't have to use the B word EVER. EVER!!!
Well to play devils advocate, Mackie was silent about the cable problem that has and continues to plague their mixers.
End users were never notified and many, including me, pulled their hair out trying to fix a bug that Mackie knew about.
FWIW, the bug typically shows up as a dead channel, sub, etc and raising the level of the input tends to make it work. At first glance it looks like a dirty pot, but it is not. It is also highly intermittant which makes things even worse.
It is directly related to bad cables in their mixers and MANY engineers have spent countless hours ripping their rigs apart looking for the problem.
See the Cakewalk audio group for a recent discussion about this.
Quite honestly I have always been a Tapco/Mackie fan, but now that Mackie is made in China, I might as well go Behringer. Hell, I drive a German car so why not go the whole route.
Also, maybe others can hear a difference but I don't hear anything different between a decent Behringer board and a Mackie in the same class.
Mackie USED to be made better, but now?
Who knows.....