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Default TAC reviews the Behringer A500


Pooh Bear wrote:
RapidRonnie wrote:

George M. Middius wrote:


Sounds cheesy. Instead of flushing away $180 on that bottom-out
imitation, donate the money to a charity and stick with your walkman.


Behringer is cheap for a reason. I work in the musical instrument
industry and there is a GOOD reason pros pay more for Crown or QSC amps
over Behringer, Stewart, or other junk amps. Even Peavey does a better
job.


Behringer's EP series amnplifers are a near 'clone' of QSC's RMX series.
Right down to the internal layout, the size of the heatsink and the output
transistors used.

I question the morality of apparently 'ripping off' other companies'
designs but you're mistaken if you think their product is defective by
design in any way.

They had a bad rep years back but many pros are in fact happy to recommend
them these days. I've done so myself on occasions. Check out the pro groups
if you don't believe me.

Graham



I'm not too anxious to support the NYOB's Readers Digest filling up
this forum but copying from here and there he is bound to hit by chance
onto something valuable once or twice amongst the ocean of thrash he
sees fit to reprint.
I own two Behringer equalisers (one for the woofers one for for
midrange.). I bought them on recommendation of Roger Sanders the ELS
man. I had owned quite a few equalisers including two "professional"
brands. Everyone of those cost more and everyone annoyed me by adding
something undesirable of its own to the sound as well as performing its
job.
Behringer is the first equaliser I can not "hear". In addition it does
a great job of equalising narrow bands without overlapping on the
neighbourhood.
One I had was defective and was cheerfully replaced by the Seattle
distributors.
If the amps are of the same quality then we need more cheap stuff like
that.
Ludovic Mirabel