Re: Behringer UBB1002

["kgtkeys2003" kgtkeys2003]

--- In  Kim Cascone <> wrote:
>
> > Their mixers are made with cheap surface-mount technology, but 
then so
> > are others these days. I am not sure I'd trust them much in the 
field.
> > Pop a solder joint and the thing is dead. On a desk they are fine.
> 
> curious, but do you have real data to back up your claim that  
> Behringer is made with *cheap* surface-mount technology?
> if it is - then we should all read it and be wary of using their  
> products in the field or elsewhere
> 
> FYI: Sound Devices uses SMT as do many other professional audio  
> products for the field
> http://tinyurl.com/3m8otr
> 
> I'm guessing that 'quality' might be more about rumor and 
aspersion  
> than it is fact and data...?
>   
> 
>

News flash..... Everything is surface mount these days! though hole 
died several years ago as not cheap to automate assembly :)