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2015/08/17 11:23:01
LJB
I have a few Behringer products and have worked on the X32 plenty of times. The new stuff sounds really good (even some of the old stuff sounds great), but it's not bullet-proof like a Yamaha 01V96 for instance. If you don't abuse it I'm sure you'll get great mileage out of it.
2015/08/20 10:33:20
BassDaddy
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.
2016/09/21 20:37:26
shmuelyosef
WallyG
Cactus Music
...For me in order of dependability Yamaha, Mackie, Tascam and Roland...




I have a $5000.00 Roland FR-8x accordion that I purchased 2 years ago that has been very dependable along with my other Roland gear. On the FR-8x forum, people are having boards failing in the 8x and there are no replacement boards anywhere in the US...
 
Walt
 


The pan pots on my Mackie mixer have gotten pretty noisy (~10 years old) and they are sealed units so I can't blow them out and lubricate...I don't use it for live work any more as a result.
2016/09/21 22:42:52
SF_Green
Probably the best $30 I ever spent
 
Behringer CT100
2016/09/21 22:46:27
SF_Green
Also, if anyone's interested Sound on Sound recently reviewed the X-Touch and X-Touch Compact
 
http://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/behringer-x-touch-x-touch-compact
2016/09/22 06:49:55
fireberd
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.
2016/09/22 07:49:27
patm300e
I am running the Behringer XR-18 here - 18 Channels through USB into SONAR that can double as a Mixer (remote tablet/PC control) for $699.00!  Midas designed preamps!  So far I am pleased.  The documentation is weak, but the routing is strong.  Like Cakewalk, Behringer has a forum that is good, (but not as good as this one!).
http://forum.music-group.com/forumdisplay.php?80-BEHRINGER
 
Oh, I am also using the single fader port...
 
2016/09/22 10:36:16
Cactus Music
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. 
2016/09/22 16:45:08
BobF
Every manufacturer has failed units.  One of my Event PS8s has a scratchy sensitivity pot and it's only 15 or 16 years old 
2016/09/22 21:42:26
Amicus717
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.
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