Winner! 135 quid!

As a consumer I am very happy. However I toally get that Behringer is opportunistic and agressive and appear to not ‘respect the past’
….but they’ve totally the idea of where the price point for cheap synths should be. It’s a win for the cash strapped consumer

I do not think Behringer really is that good at making money. They must be subsidised by the chinese state! As their products even in China costs just a little less to make than what they sell them for! I understand that they need to sell a hell of a lot of instruments just to cover their costs!

Behringer is already a household name. Walk into any church that does music and you’ll not find Jesus, but Behringer 🙂

More than a car – when I was a kid in the 80s, a Fairlight cost more than my parents paid for a 3-bedroom house!

LOL. I work in the pharmaceutical industry. What do you think a generic drug is?
Generic drugs are typically not exactly the same as the branded drugs that have come off patent. Generic drug makers only have to demonstrate efficacy equivalency of the active pharmaceutical ingredient(s) API to FDA, and they rarely have to go through any type of clincial trial. Other ingredients in the generics are not subject to this requirement and often vary greatly using cheaper ingredients to keep the costs of the generics down. This is why some people who take a branded drug and then switch to a generic version which is “the same” have reactions with the generics not experienced with the original, branded drug. They react to the non-API, lower quality cheaper ingredients.

The branded drug manufacturer is the one that spent huge dollars to develop a drug, and while it’s on patent are the only ones who can sell it (unless they license it to another manufacturer). But when the branded drug’s patent is over, it falls off the “patent cliff” and generic drug manufacturers jump in and produce a version of that drug. This is why companies that make branded drugs are ALWAYS trying to develop new drugs (and sometimes invent new conditions to treat with new drugs; that is known in the industry as disease mongering). They are seeking to replace the revenue stream lost to generic manufacturers.

When you use a generic instead of a branded drug, you and your insurance company are sticking it to the branded drug manufacturer that spent the time and money to develop that drug. It’s wrong to do it with synths but okay for you to do it with drugs and thousands of other products?.

You’re confusing actual clones with knockoffs, Tim. Nobody wants to buy knockoff drugs!

If you want to be a Behringer apologist, you need to have arguments that actually makes sense.

Remember that the next time you take a generic prescription drug instead of paying more for the branded prescription drug.

People mad cause they overpaid for the synths. Did I get ripped off? No, it’s these peasants that are wrong!

Can’t wait for Oberheim Two-Voice. Saw one on reverb for $14,000 lol…

Much love from Uncle Shok

That’s a good dodge. My comment was based on the question of why is it necessary to write an entire page comment defending why B is so good?
I’m quite aware of the thousands of B posts you’ve landed on each and every side of the argument – debate is like that! Both things can be true.
Can you stop holding my comments for review? Maybe you are spamming your own site with 7 b posts yesterday and are projecting that I am the troll spammer? But it’s actually You? Just a thought.