I've dealt with Uri before when i worked in Audio Retail - we were actually the largest account in the UK for Behringer and second worldwide only to Thomann.
Uri thought his was some super slick business genius but Behringer has nearly gone bust several times, directly as a result of poor choices by Uri.
There were also long periods where he and MD would be at odds (in fairness my MD was an utter twat/cretin) and no orders would come through until one of the blinked. Ridiculous way to run a company.
It seems he's gotten worse over time by those comments lol
Jun-25-2019 21:04
LoveHate
...........
Registered: Oct 2006
Location: Vancouver
lmao uri thinks he is Steve jobs
Jun-26-2019 15:45
alanzo
The Equalizer Womanizer
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Boston, MA
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Disturbing use of talents. Engineers don't innovate, they reverse engineer as per the instruction of the sociopathic CEO who thinks he is Steve Jobs (he is not). As an engineer, this is not the place you go to innovate and do great things. This is where you go to learn to rip off other companies designs and recreate them using the absolute cheapest parts.
To each their own. There is certainly innovation in reverse engineering, or "ripping off" as this review puts it.
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This place can be classified as a chaotic hell, and the CEO loves the smell of fear and rotting employee corpses
This sounds like more of a problem, cultural at the company. Bad CEOs are no fun to work for.
Yes, innovation can come from reverse engineering and then trying to make it better but that's not what Behringer does.
They literally take someone else product and say "how can we rip this off for half or 1/3 the price?"
The Truth's (monitors) were a perfect example of this; they took Dynaudio B2013a's (that cost about $1000 and just made them for $300 each. They were actually pretty good but they were just a part for part rip off and basically sacrificing 20% performance for a 60% discount worked in their favor.
Other things like the ADA8000 were cheap but good DAC's that got you from premium grade (Like RME or Apogee) interfaces or Mixers to analogue outputs for a fraction of the cost that those brands would charge.
Other shit was absolute rubbish though such their DBX, Drawmer and Mackie rip off gates and compressors and mixers.
Jul-10-2019 01:54
tehlord
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Jan 2009
Location: Windsor
It's funny. The only 'major' company I see doing any kind of innovation right now is Arturia, so holding up the innovation card is kind of pointless. And the funny thing about that...is that QC at Arturia is arguably worse than QC at Behringer right now.
Originally posted by DJ RANN
They literally take someone else product and say "how can we rip this off for half or 1/3 the price?"
they increased their prices?
Jul-10-2019 18:46
DJ RANN
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: May 2001
Location: Hollywood....
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Originally posted by tehlord
It's funny. The only 'major' company I see doing any kind of innovation right now is Arturia, so holding up the innovation card is kind of pointless. And the funny thing about that...is that QC at Arturia is arguably worse than QC at Behringer right now.
True, it's mainly rehashing old analogue models and not many people are pushing out truly innovative things, but Behringer haven't really ever pushed out a product that was designed from the ground up in house. The market is weird these days - when i worked in pro audio you had a ton of brands across the price spectrum from low to high, but now there's very little in the middle; it's either really expensive boutique kit or dirt cheap kit. The mid range seems to have disappeared as everything went ITB.
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Originally posted by Mac
they increased their prices?
