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<blockquote data-quote="Jeff Babcock" data-source="post: 32815" data-attributes="member: 46">Re: Up in smoke!Agreed to some extent Tim, but I am in the habit of carrying extra product in some cases, particularly anything with show stopping potential.&nbsp; Call me a bit paranoid perhaps after all these years seeing all sorts of things happen.&nbsp; I have seen bits of kit from a huge range of manufacturers have issues, not just the cheap MI stuff.&nbsp; Good designs may be less prone to failure, but all gear fails at some point, any person who believes that spending more $ guarantees a fail-proof rig is just setting themselves up for trouble.&nbsp; Spending more in theory just lowers the likelihood.Back to the Mackies - I really don&#039;t have concerns about their reliability during a gig any more or less than other powered boxes in that relatively cheap pricerange.&nbsp; They are fairly unlikely IMHO to fail mid-show as opposed to finding an issue during initial setup.&nbsp; If there is a problem found during setup, how good the support dept at a company is doesn&#039;t matter - you need a spare NOW.&nbsp; Whether that means another mackie box or some other &quot;D&quot; rig, my point was just to suggest having something.... anything.... to get by with until you can sort out the issue.&nbsp; If a Mackie box fails for me, it&#039;s no big deal if it takes a couple weeks to be fixed, I can use other stuff.&nbsp; Having a fix for a high end company&#039;s box in a few days instead of a few weeks is not really worth the extra expense for me given the intended use I have for the Mackies.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeff Babcock, post: 32815, member: 46"] Re: Up in smoke! Agreed to some extent Tim, but I am in the habit of carrying extra product in some cases, particularly anything with show stopping potential. Call me a bit paranoid perhaps after all these years seeing all sorts of things happen. I have seen bits of kit from a huge range of manufacturers have issues, not just the cheap MI stuff. Good designs may be less prone to failure, but all gear fails at some point, any person who believes that spending more $ guarantees a fail-proof rig is just setting themselves up for trouble. Spending more in theory just lowers the likelihood. Back to the Mackies - I really don't have concerns about their reliability during a gig any more or less than other powered boxes in that relatively cheap pricerange. They are fairly unlikely IMHO to fail mid-show as opposed to finding an issue during initial setup. If there is a problem found during setup, how good the support dept at a company is doesn't matter - you need a spare NOW. Whether that means another mackie box or some other "D" rig, my point was just to suggest having something.... anything.... to get by with until you can sort out the issue. If a Mackie box fails for me, it's no big deal if it takes a couple weeks to be fixed, I can use other stuff. Having a fix for a high end company's box in a few days instead of a few weeks is not really worth the extra expense for me given the intended use I have for the Mackies. [/QUOTE]

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