From organtec@charter.net Sat Oct 22 07:34:14 2011
Subject:RE: Behringer Products

I just repaired a Behringer tube effects unit. Quite interesting but not earth shaking. It has a noise reduction circuit, enhancer/exciter, bass enhancer, surround processer. Does it work? Yes. Ground breaking? No! Electrically quiet, after repair.

Bass enhancement and high processing a copy of other units. Noise reduction is a copy of the original Phase Linear by Bob Carver, been around since the 70’s. Surround is a difference of left and right signal, done by dynaco in the sixties. Tube warmth? Function of that device, nothing new. Packaging all together, neat idea. Quality of construction,ok only. Quality of parts/components, some pretty decent, others lousy!

I don’t care what their propaganda says, execution of a good design isn’t what they try to say. Substandard parts suck!! Remember, I’m not looking at the pretty face, but the innards, where it counts!!



From: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of mark k
Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 9:12 AM
To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CWSG] Behringer Products





re earlier comments on Behringer products and their manufacture. I just purchased a Behringer mixer and in the packaging was a brochure on the Behringer range. On page 4 Behringer state that their products are built in their own factory in Zhongsham in Guangdong province by their 3,000 employees. They claim to build almost everything themselves including speaker cones and winding their own voice coils. Making your own speakers in your own factory is taking "making it yourself' more seriously than Marshall or Fender amplification have ever done by way of comparison.

If there is any stencilling going on then I suspect it may be Behringer making it for other brands rather than Behringer using the cheapest outsourced Chinese job shops as suggested in earlier posts.

My limited past experience with Behringer products has been positive. Their corporate objective is apparently to offer low cost products. At their price point I wouldn't be surprised to find they may be less durable. In the case of the x1204usb mixer I purchased I would need to replace it twice before I would have spent the same as the current cost of a similar Yamaha mixer (also made in China?). YMMV



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From: schmuck73 >
To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 1:00 AM
Subject: [CWSG] Behringer Keyboard Amp - Keith Emerson uses one


Keith Emerson, from a recent interview:

In Los Angeles, I had the opportunity to sit in with a local jazz unit, so I went into [retailer] West L.A. Music and asked, "What amp do you recommend?" They said, "This one." I said, "Fine, put it in the car."

Pulled from Keyboard Magazine - http://www.keyboardmag.com/article/Keith-Emerson-Interviewed-by-You/2392

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