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Originally Posted by dooleydog
mine has audible 60 cycle hum in the two headouts outs closest to the power cord. Im quickly moving away from this unit.
i have the HA8000...

i desperately wanted to go with something other than Beezlebub gear, but i needed at least 5 independent headphone mixes for live bands, and the HA8000 has direct inputs on every channel, and was affordable.
it gets the job done... using Sennheiser HD280's and AKG-K44's. no one has complained about a lack of volume, not even the drummer, so i don't think you'll have to worry about that.
however, these things are noisy
on certain channels. most notably... channels 7 & 8 (the ones closest to the power supply) there is a little bit of noise on channel 6, even less on channel 5, and channels 1-4 are clean (at least compared to channels 7 & 8) i ordered a replacement unit, and had the exact same problem, with varying degrees of noise. it was really no better than the first...and one of the LEDs was about 5x brighter than all the rest.
channels 7 & 8 are unusable for me. i can't listen to it without thinking of suicide and i wouldn't put a client through it either. however since i only need 5 or 6 channels at the most, this works for me. channels 7 & 8 aren't hooked up at all.
this is the only piece of Beezlebub gear i have, because the features and price are what i was looking for... however i wish it wasn't.
i'd like another company to directly copy Beezlebub's design on their headphone amps, and i'd buy it, even if it was a bit more cash.
and the poster who mentioned the heat of this unit is correct... it can get toasty when driving a lot of cans, so take that into consideration when/if racking it.
GOOD LUCK is the best advice you can be given when it comes to the B word.