Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

John, I have a Behringer UB2442FX,I had a Peavey 16 channel board, I 
have a Mackie 16.8 bus. I have a Peavey 2000 stereo amp and a Gem 
sound amp. The Behringer has been used on the road and it has seen a 
lot of miles. I had a channel to go out on it after a lot of use. The 
Peavey mixer was built more durable but a channel failed on it also. 
My peavey 2000 amp has been a work horse. I say this and it will 
probably croak this weekend. The Mackie stays only in my studio so I 
can't compare it to road use. A friend of mine runs a DJ service and 
she is always having one of her Mackie boards run in for repair. and 
another group I know has had their peavey to go and go without any 
problems. I just got the GemSound and the only complaint I have with 
it is the fan is noisy. I bought it because a friend runs his 
DTXpress II thru a Gem sound powered speaker and it has lasted for 
about 3 years now and I like the sound of it. The amp part of the 
speaker only has treble and Bass, but the speaker has a 15 a horn and 
3 piezeo tweeters and they balance out the drum kits well. Here is 
the way I look at it. Amps are built with semiconductors. Amps put 
out power and with power it generates heat. heat causes components to 
fail. No matter what brand it is failed parts will happen. 










--- 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
>