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<blockquote data-quote="Bennett Prescott" data-source="post: 114884" data-attributes="member: 4">Re: New QSC Product - TouchMixLet&#039;s say these cost QSC $5.00 per channel at the quantity they&#039;re buying them in, if they&#039;re almost $9 to you and me in quantities of 1K that could be in the ballpark. The big mixer has 16 channels, times $5 that&#039;s $80 just in parts cost. There are some other factors involved since this chipset duo is likely much larger than whatever preamp QSC is using in the box. Take that $80 and apply the usual 4x markup by the time you and I ever see it at retail, and suddenly these cheap little chips aren&#039;t cheap at all. The additional cost at retail would be $320, which puts this mixer closer to the M32 Compact than the Mackie DL1608.I know nothing about QSC&#039;s product strategy or whatever, and certainly aren&#039;t their defender or spokesman, but it&#039;s a lot more expensive than it seems at first blush. If I were in charge of this mixer, I certainly wouldn&#039;t add that kind of money to the product&#039;s cost for an application a very small percentage of end users are likely going to really care about when they start putting their dollars down.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bennett Prescott, post: 114884, member: 4"] Re: New QSC Product - TouchMix Let's say these cost QSC $5.00 per channel at the quantity they're buying them in, if they're almost $9 to you and me in quantities of 1K that could be in the ballpark. The big mixer has 16 channels, times $5 that's $80 just in parts cost. There are some other factors involved since this chipset duo is likely much larger than whatever preamp QSC is using in the box. Take that $80 and apply the usual 4x markup by the time you and I ever see it at retail, and suddenly these cheap little chips aren't cheap at all. The additional cost at retail would be $320, which puts this mixer closer to the M32 Compact than the Mackie DL1608. I know nothing about QSC's product strategy or whatever, and certainly aren't their defender or spokesman, but it's a lot more expensive than it seems at first blush. If I were in charge of this mixer, I certainly wouldn't add that kind of money to the product's cost for an application a very small percentage of end users are likely going to really care about when they start putting their dollars down. [/QUOTE]

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