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I've got to get some thing off my chest. I've wondered this since before I became a member & was just reading the Bose forums. Why would a DJ buy a Behringer mixer after buying such a top end speaker system as the Bose L1 system???

It's the cheapest company with a pretty bad reputation it terms of reliability & quality. For just a bit more $ you should be able to score allot better mixer. Also all your sound goes through it & this will effect your overall sound no matter how good your speakers sound. No offense meant to anyone on here who uses a Behringer mixer, sorry I just had to ask about it I've been wonder about this for over a year now.

I do speak from experience having owned two Behringer mixers & having very bad luck with both.

JD,

I have tried different mixers with the L1 too. I have found the L1 sounds better than conventional speakers regardless of what the mixer is.

So at least they have that going for them.

That's a good point. I guess the main reason I would think it would be better to stay away from a Behringer mixer is because of reliability. The L1's can make just about everything you through at them sound pretty good.

I guess someone would have to do an A/B test. Even if it sounds OK I'd still worry about it failing with in a year or less of heavy use. When I had mine years ago the faders only lasted like 6 to 8 months before they were dying on me.

Now if you were to get a Behringer mixer with all knobs it might last a bit longer, I wouldn't know however because both of the ones I had had faders.

Still getting the cheapest mixer for a high end sound system boggles my mind a bit.

I have been using a Mackie VLZ 3 compact mixer for a few years now. I come out of a laptop with an Echo Indigo sound card to the little Mackie. It cost $100

Before the T1, I used the VLZ all the time but now I only use it when running 2 L1's in stereo and the T1 the rest of the time.

Actually I wanted to upgrade to something better but still compact. Can’t seem to find anything out there.
Any compact mixer recommendations?

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Originally posted by jdbassentertainment.com:
I've got to get some thing off my chest. I've wondered this since before I became a member & was just reading the Bose forums. Why would a DJ buy a Behringer mixer after buying such a top end speaker system as the Bose L1 system???

It's the cheapest company with a pretty bad reputation it terms of reliability & quality. For just a bit more $ you should be able to score allot better mixer. Also all your sound goes through it & this will effect your overall sound no matter how good your speakers sound. No offense meant to anyone on here who uses a Behringer mixer, sorry I just had to ask about it I've been wonder about this for over a year now.

I do speak from experience having owned two Behringer mixers & having very bad luck with both.

JD, I bought it because I read on the forums here of other djs that used to use a dj mixer and switched to this type mixer. As a matter of fact, I never had a problem with Behringer products. Before I had Bose I had 2 euro 2500 amps, 4 b1520 speakers and a Behringer 18"sub and this little system rocked better than any Peavey, JBL, Ev systems I ever had. The 802 mixer sounded much better than the other two dj mixers I had used with the L1 before.

Well I could be wrong but I'm just saying ?Behringer??? Any hoo if it works for you- more power to ya!

I've had reasonable luck with Behringer stuff. Although, with my type of venues, I did not need to ride the controls much. Some DJ's do, it's their style or type of music and manual normalization. That could perhaps affect the life of the volume pots.
I had a Mackie and a Behringer. The Behringer, had effects, so for Karaoke people, they liked the reverb.
I believe the Mackie was a bit quieter. I sold the Bheringer, to a friend, he took a lightning hit about a year later, we bought a new power supply and fixed it. It is still running 3 nights a week 4 years later.
I also used the Behringer PMA-3000 powered mixer, with my JBL's, before buying the Bose L1. The PMA-3000 is still working well after 3 years at a church, that was happy to get it.

Although it all worked fine and had decent sound, I tired of hauling a trailer and have really enjoyed now having the Bose L1 MII setup.

I couldn't think of trading out my Bose system or the T1 as a performer. If I was DJ/KJ'ing again and wanted stereo, I might consider another mixer, the Mackie has been laying around for so long, it may or may not survive a good cleaning, plus it would at least need a nano-verb hooked into it. Otherwise, a medium range Behringer, with effects and slides would do, until Bose comes out with a stereo mixer, then the decision is easy.

In my case the behringer mixer would work just fine considering my laptop does all the cross fading itself and I don't have the need to go from one channel to the other on each song.
On a second note, I've been using behringer products for some time now without flaws. Haven't tried the mixer yet though, but for a small $60 I will try it. Better to waste $60 than $199.

Okay, Everybody dance now,,,,, to the left, cha cha real smooth

wait...Sound quality does differ depending on the product. I have 2 systems. 1 is a Pioneer djm 800 mixer and 1 is a Rane ttm57. I love both mixers but the Rane by far has the best quality of sound over my Pioneer.

Exactly my point. Not every DJ mixer was created equal & typically you do get what you pay for.