Behringer buys Midas / K-T?? WTF?
Didn’t they learn anything from BSS? I bought a new FCS-960 (post mackie buy-out made in china), and I had to return it 3 times before I got one that worked. They finally fixed it by giving me a N.O.S. unit that was one of the last made in England. Horrible. Now my beloved grey and purple boards will now be mass produced over there? Please don’t tell me that I now have to start using a PM5D!

As the whole world is regressing to compressed MP3’s, $4K digital boards that don’t know what 0dBU is, and general production values that were only acceptable when the mainstream audio media was wax cylinders, Midas and K-T stood out from the pack as 2 brands I could count on to sound as they always did - better than everybody else.

Don Lanier says:
I guess the Corporate Money didnt learn its lesson when Harley Davidson was bought by a Bowling Equipment Manufacturer, will the day come that in the back of Guitar Centers everywhere PILES of Midas consoles mass produced will be returned to the factory as Behringer did, its a sad sad day, or maybe when Fender was bought by $%#@ and On and On…..I hope they can remnain Autonomous but if Mackie, EAW, Fender, St Louis Music, Ampeg, Harley and any number of other companies succumb to the Stock market money managers, the Music Industry lets out a Loud collective MOAN (more…)

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