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<blockquote data-quote="David Buckley" data-source="post: 74570" data-attributes="member: 2235">Re: Grumpy guy observation about the X32 threadSkeptical.&nbsp; The resources that Behringer were able to bring to bear to this product were not commonly available to other manufacturers, and the lengths to which they have gone to sort manufacturing for their entire operation are substantive.&nbsp; So I&#039;d venture other manufacturing groups would have difficulty replicating this at the price point in the near future.&nbsp; Behringer has clearly been planning this product for some while.Having said that, and very much teaching grandma to suck eggs, a digital mixer is essentially just a control surface, DSP, and converters.&nbsp; On a mass production product, the cost is all in the hardware, but the value is in the software, software which at mass production levels is free.Additionally, other manufacturers with existing digital product are going to be focussed on issues surrounding range cannibalisation, whereas Behringer were able to just go for it.Not entirely.&nbsp; Many folks who are buying X32s would have considered digital out of their price range, and would have bought stuff like GL series.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is why there is a flood of &quot;new digital user&quot; questions.&nbsp; But if the X32 continues to do what many continue to not believe possible, then yeah, other digital manufacturers will have to look at where they are going.&nbsp; Heck, given there looks like being an entire generation of BEs being brought up on Behringer X series, there is a possibility that there will be riders in years to come that will say &quot;mixers: Music Group only&quot;The question that really intrigues me is how much longer will the GLs be in production?&nbsp; When they get withdrawn, that&#039;s the official end of analogue mixing.+a huge number to that.NAMM is going to be a bit interesting this year...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="David Buckley, post: 74570, member: 2235"] Re: Grumpy guy observation about the X32 thread Skeptical. The resources that Behringer were able to bring to bear to this product were not commonly available to other manufacturers, and the lengths to which they have gone to sort manufacturing for their entire operation are substantive. So I'd venture other manufacturing groups would have difficulty replicating this at the price point [I]in the near future[/I]. Behringer has clearly been planning this product for some while. Having said that, and very much teaching grandma to suck eggs, a digital mixer is essentially just a control surface, DSP, and converters. On a mass production product, the cost is all in the hardware, but the value is in the software, software which at mass production levels is free. Additionally, other manufacturers with existing digital product are going to be focussed on issues surrounding range cannibalisation, whereas Behringer were able to just go for it. Not entirely. Many folks who are buying X32s would have considered digital out of their price range, and would have bought stuff like GL series. This is why there is a flood of "new digital user" questions. But if the X32 continues to do what many continue to not believe possible, then yeah, other digital manufacturers will have to look at where they are going. Heck, given there looks like being an entire generation of BEs being brought up on Behringer X series, there is a possibility that there will be riders in years to come that will say "mixers: Music Group only" The question that really intrigues me is how much longer will the GLs be in production? When they get withdrawn, that's the official end of analogue mixing. +a huge number to that. NAMM is going to be a bit interesting this year... [/QUOTE]

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