I'm grateful to Behringer for the stuff I could not afford when I started out but they had some I could. Granted, a percentage wouldn't work when you got them but I just sent them back and got another. Musicians Friend didn't seem to mind and neither did I. I have never had anything fail while I owned it. They had a great headphone amp and I still use every day my Mini Mon  monitor and headphone router. It cost $40. and I can't hear any difference from having the KRK VXT's going through them. I thought they must have turned a corner a few years back when Sweetwater started selling them.

Probably the best $30 I ever spent
 
Behringer CT100

The teaser part of the article suggests the reviewer isn't crazy about it.  You have to buy the article to read it all.
I have an X-Touch (upraded from a BCF2000) and love it.

Old thread, I never did take a chance on the X air. 
I did buy some Behringer speakers that failed within a month , one of them. I now have a set of Alto's which seem a better product and certainly better sound quality, same price point. The music store. where I bought them Tom Lee do have issues with lots of  returns for Behringer ,  but they say they have no problem returning for credit so all is good. 

My first mixer was a crappy little Behringer Eurorack - four preamps, no faders just knobs, and small enough to fit in a briefcase with room to spare. Not fancy, but did the job.
 
My second mixer was a much pricier Mackie Onyx 1220 w/ Firewire. Sounded pretty good and was fun to use, but the Mackie's power supply went south after 5 years (the slightly infamous Mackie Onyx helicopter of death), and it got shunted to the back of the storage closet. The little Behringer? Still going strong 11 years after I bought it. Pulled it out last year to do a little on-location, non-critical recording, and even after sitting dormant for half a decade, it worked like a charm. A bit scratchy on the main monitor pot, but that's it. It outlived my supposedly built-like-a-tank Mackie by a solid 6 years.

tlw
The digital mixers seem pretty well regarded. My local club recently switched from a Soundcraft analogue FOH desk to a Behringer digital, and they're a six or seven band nights a week, 52 weeks of the year place that's nationally renowned on the 600-1000 capacity circuit and has seriously good engineers so I imagine they've done their homework before buying.

One thing that also speaks for the X32 system is its modularity, which allows you to build a full backup system at significantly lower cost i.e. you can buy the console plus the much cheaper core as backup. you save the scenes to a simple USB stick and have the backup synced in 30 seconds. in the worst cast you run just of the core and some android device as the mix desk to twist the knobs.

We all know Behringer's history... but (more recently) they've absorbed a lot of good companies/technology/people (Midas, TC, etc).
 
The newer products they're making are good.
The X32 series is used all over for live music/shows.
The engineer mixing us Friday and Saturday night is using one.
 
They've got a new analog synth that should be available soon.
Supposed to be very nice... and not overly expensive.

I have several Behringer devices, and I love them all.  I too was reticent to get anything by Behringer.
 
I started with the XR4400 Multigate Pro, because it was the only company that made a 4 channel gate at the time.  And it was cheap.  It is fantastic.  So after that I decided to try the FX2000 Virtualizer 3D effects rack unit, and it is incredible.  Then I got the XENYX UFX 1604 mixer because it was almost identical to my old Mackie ONYX 1640 mixer which was petering out...and that mixer is awesome.
 
Now...I will buy anything from them...that I need.  You are safe to go Behringer.