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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 133051" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: New Midas M32 Console<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />&nbsp;&nbsp; I find plenty to be critical of Behringer for, but their brand management seems to be well executed... FWIW consumers generally ASSume that console mic pre amps must be inferior to stand alone pre amps, because the stand alone pre amps cost more. Stand alone preamps cost more, everything else equal, because the packaging and power supply overhead must be fully absorbed by the lower retail price. A x2 pre amp will be even more expensive (per input) while still looking too cheap to be competitive with a premium stand alone preamp and (probably) an even smaller seller. There are lots of &quot;funny&quot; market perceptions surrounding consoles... glad I don&#039;t have to deal them any more. JR</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 133051, member: 126"] Re: New Midas M32 Console :-) I find plenty to be critical of Behringer for, but their brand management seems to be well executed... FWIW consumers generally ASSume that console mic pre amps must be inferior to stand alone pre amps, because the stand alone pre amps cost more. Stand alone preamps cost more, everything else equal, because the packaging and power supply overhead must be fully absorbed by the lower retail price. A x2 pre amp will be even more expensive (per input) while still looking too cheap to be competitive with a premium stand alone preamp and (probably) an even smaller seller. There are lots of "funny" market perceptions surrounding consoles... glad I don't have to deal them any more. JR [/QUOTE]

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