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Re: Behringer DEQ2496 vs. DBX Driverack PA

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We've "played around", with them, as it were. (no controlled doubleblind testing, just brief listening) My thoughts - DEQ was noisy (hissy) and a little bright, DBX was pretty quiet and a little smoother. We are getting ready to install the driverack PA in a local church. Of course, if the church had the money we'd have spec'd an XTA unit, but at $2500 it was way out of their price range.

Now the other news - Behringer's factory service pretty much sucks, and their quality control is bad too. We spoken to quite a few wholesale people who have had up to 20% return rates on the Behringer products. At one point I had 3 Quad Gates, 4 Composers, and 3 Multicoms in our house rack. Over 3 years we lost 2 of the composers and 2 of the gates. In the "Pro" industry Behringer products have become throwaways - use them till they break, then buy some more. At their price point that's actually not a bad thing for a sound company, but for a home system I would question using that logic.

DBX, OTOH, has always had great tech support, and I had never, over an 8 year period, had a DBX piece fail.

My long winded 2 cents...

Al

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