Bob Josjor wrote on Fri, 05 November 2010 06:52 |
Behrenger? Well, I would challenge you to find a true pro that has any in the rack that they truly depend on.
I own a music store and was once tempted to bring in Behry as an entry level line of gear. Did some inquiries with fellow store owners that were Behry dealers. Many of them reported return rates as high as 40%! I'm a Peavey dealer. Many Peavey products aren't priced much more than most Behry products. My return rate with Peavey is almost zero.
Just saying.
Oh, and as long as I'm "Just saying", an oft repeated phrase is "Buy once, cry once." Spend a little more money for your gear and you'll only cry about the initial investment. Spend a lot less for your gear and you cry when you spend the money and cry again each time it fails you.
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While it warms my heart to hear such anecdotes, this second-hand hearsay about 40% failure rates in "behry" (Behringer?) without attribution is not very credible. Any company suffering even a fraction of that failure rate couldn't possibly stay in business.
I don't doubt that there may have been specific production runs of some models with unacceptable failure rates, but on the whole, they must be making a number of perhaps less discerning customers happy as they are prospering.
I find it amusing to hear "buy once cry once" mentioned in the same post with Peavey, but perhaps compared to the new crop of bottom feeders who have redefined cheap. Peavey has never really been cheap (IMO), while not featured up for big dog professional users, it is built to a decent standard of performance and reliability on a budget (of course I may be biased by my past exposure to years of drinking the corporate kool aid, but I know more than a little about what goes on under the hood).
JR