Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

New componets fail to heat also. well thats what my Text book and 
electronics tech school said also.






--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, john@... wrote:
>
> Hey ppl
> 
> I just thought I'd report in.
> 
> When I was choosing an amp, most people recommended Peavey, but some
> recommended Behringer and I went for the latter in a fit of EU
> support, and I think I believed that the Behringer with its three
> speakers would give a wider range than the Peavey, with its one. I 
may
> well be wrong about all of that.
> 
> Anyway, I was warned that Behringer has a reputation for
> unreliability, but someone else said that, this being a new product,
> perhaps they'd fixed that.
> 
> So a few weeks ago I was on stage, maybe using the amp properly for
> about the fourth time, in the middle of the opening song, when the 
amp
> failed with a smell of hot electronics and a lot of bass hum,
> regardless of the settings.
> 
> OK, we wired the kit through the PA and were able to carry on, but 
not
> before we'd tried to play a song with no drum monitoring. The only
> drum sound was that which bounced off the far wall of the hall about
> 1/4 a second too late. Very disconcerting.
> 
> I ended up using the vocal monitor, which left vocals at a
> disadvantage. So all very upsetting. I'm no longer a Behringer
> supporter. You Peavey people were probably right and I was probably
> wrong and I'm sorry.
> 
> J
>