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Subject: Re: Advice on top end mixer wanted.
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From: Tomi Holger Engdahl 
Date: 03 Apr 1999 21:24:42 +0300
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"Andr� Huisman"  writes:

> Yes. One of my suppliers/distributers switched to it a year or so ago. It's
> just another Gemini/Numark/BST/DAP/IMG like mixer (all made in Taiwan of the
> same assembly lines with different marketing texts on it).

That's the reasonn why many cheaper DJ mixers look so alike
and have quite similar features.

> >And what about Behringer? It seemed that they have also
> Which brand did they copy this time?

I don't know. At least they are quite good in copying the products.
They take a good products (quite oftem Mackie on mixers), copy
the basic construction, add some features and then sell it
at around half of the price of the original (or even cheaper).
Maybe German reverse-engineering and construction lines in china
are good combination ;-)

Their mixes seem to be quite much like copied products,
but they have also some quite unique products on their
line, one example is Behringer Ultracurve. It seems not
to be a direct copy of anythign on the market at that time it 
came out.

> >(http://www.behringer.de/eng/products/dj-mixer.htm).
> Looks impressive. Will have to try one out, the next time I order stuff from
> them ;-)

Seemed to be quite impressive to me also.
The features of having balanced XLR output seemed to be a good idea.

> BTW: Even with brands like Behringer, you'll always get what you pay for.
> The prices of their equipment are too low to believe. I've tried out some of
> their products (and they do work). BUT, their X-over f.i. has terrible

Thise products seem not to be soo good quality than their much more
expensive "origianl versions", but very good for the price I think.
For example Mackie mixers seem to be better constructed mechanically
than the Behringers I have seen, but the proce differrence is quite
huge. And there are some drawbacks on their Ultracurve also
(some software bugs and some other problems, but sill a good
produt for proce, maybe better quality control would be nice).

> (BTW, pardon the spelling errors, my spelling checker isn't working anymore
> since I switched to NT4 (it says things like "unknown language" ;-))

Pardon the spelling errors in my text. I don't use spelling
checker. (anyone have good one for GNUS newsreader ?)
 
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Tomi Engdahl (http://www.iki.fi/then/)
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