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<blockquote data-quote="Peter Morris" data-source="post: 125147" data-attributes="member: 652"><p>Re: New Midas M32 Console</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Some time ago I owned EAW and Crest products. Both companies were then bought by MI companies, Loud Technologies and Peavey respectively.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Mackie speakers became “designed by EAW” and had EAW [Gunness] Focusing. Mackie’s advertising and branding included references to EAW all over the place and manufacturing was transferred to China.</span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">EAW at one point in time was the most rider accepted concert speaker in the world. It’s still worth more than Behringer, but in 2014 its hard to find a rider with any reference to EAW on it. (and they still make great speakers) The Pro world is waiting to see if the same happens to Midas, KT and Turbosound.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Putting Midas pre’s in a Behringer product and then putting a Midas badge on it may sell a lot of M32s but it greatly devalues the pro Status of Midas. I have heard people say that Music Group only wanted Midas and Turbosound for their name.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: #000000">As I understand, when the X32 was first introsduced, Behringer said it had Midas pre-amps.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: #000000"></span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><a href="http://www.behringer.com/en/products/x32.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">http://www.behringer.com/en/products/x32.aspx</span></a></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><a href="http://www.behringer.com/en/products/S16.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">http://www.behringer.com/en/products/S16.aspx</span></a></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Then in this case the only difference is the connectors, the A/D’s and the badge …anyway …</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">It takes about 5 years to get a product on a rider; the problem for Music Group is that’s about 2 year longer than their apparent product focus.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">There is still no editor for the latest Pro series firmware nor a really good reverb, my Flex TFL 600 and TMW115 wedges have be made obsolete when they were replaced with the new Flex TFL104 and TWM152 as part of the 140 new models released at Plasa.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Then I’m told the price has dropped by 30% - not in my part of the world! And now you have changed the name back … so they weren’t new products after all? Not a good look, but an improvement - thankyou for changing them back.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Unfortunately for me I own both Midas and Turbosound. Everything Music Group seems to do lately makes me wish I owned something else … sorry. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">I do love my Flex and Pro2, they are excellent products and I wanted to buy more, but gee you guys are making it difficult for me to see Flashline / Flex array and Midas Pro series remaining on riders.</span></span></span></p><p></p><p>Regards</p><p>Peter</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Peter Morris, post: 125147, member: 652"] Re: New Midas M32 Console [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]Some time ago I owned EAW and Crest products. Both companies were then bought by MI companies, Loud Technologies and Peavey respectively. [/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]Mackie speakers became “designed by EAW” and had EAW [Gunness] Focusing. Mackie’s advertising and branding included references to EAW all over the place and manufacturing was transferred to China.[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]EAW at one point in time was the most rider accepted concert speaker in the world. It’s still worth more than Behringer, but in 2014 its hard to find a rider with any reference to EAW on it. (and they still make great speakers) The Pro world is waiting to see if the same happens to Midas, KT and Turbosound. [/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [COLOR=#000000][SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]Putting Midas pre’s in a Behringer product and then putting a Midas badge on it may sell a lot of M32s but it greatly devalues the pro Status of Midas. I have heard people say that Music Group only wanted Midas and Turbosound for their name. [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]As I understand, when the X32 was first introsduced, Behringer said it had Midas pre-amps. [/COLOR][FONT=Tahoma][URL="http://www.behringer.com/en/products/x32.aspx"][COLOR=#0000ff]http://www.behringer.com/en/products/x32.aspx[/COLOR][/URL] [URL="http://www.behringer.com/en/products/S16.aspx"][COLOR=#0000ff]http://www.behringer.com/en/products/S16.aspx[/COLOR][/URL][/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]Then in this case the only difference is the connectors, the A/D’s and the badge …anyway … [/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]It takes about 5 years to get a product on a rider; the problem for Music Group is that’s about 2 year longer than their apparent product focus. [/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]There is still no editor for the latest Pro series firmware nor a really good reverb, my Flex TFL 600 and TMW115 wedges have be made obsolete when they were replaced with the new Flex TFL104 and TWM152 as part of the 140 new models released at Plasa.[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]Then I’m told the price has dropped by 30% - not in my part of the world! And now you have changed the name back … so they weren’t new products after all? Not a good look, but an improvement - thankyou for changing them back. [/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]Unfortunately for me I own both Midas and Turbosound. Everything Music Group seems to do lately makes me wish I owned something else … sorry. [/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]I do love my Flex and Pro2, they are excellent products and I wanted to buy more, but gee you guys are making it difficult for me to see Flashline / Flex array and Midas Pro series remaining on riders.[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] Regards Peter [/QUOTE]
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