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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Herman" data-source="post: 18777" data-attributes="member: 72">Re: showconsole - too good to be true?The Show Console is IMHO a very bad investment. It seems like a good idea at first but in reality you can do far better. I don&#039;t think I&#039;d even take a free one because it is just going to cause you grief forever. I have bought a lot of consoles in the past and learned that repeatedly fixing unreliable consoles is not worth the hassle with downtime, time soak and the money pit they become. Plus your resale value will always continue to drop unless it is a very solid performer that doesn&#039;t break. The Show Console always had problems from the beginning - no matter what people might say. It was a great idea and really cool if you had someone else fixing it (Showco and then Clair) and had a spare console around. As for those of you who are interested in Harrisson consoles - they are terrible messes that sounded good when they worked - which was sometimes. Overpriced, not enough inputs, lack of part inventory, and horrible service. They didn&#039;t travel well on the road. I checked them out when they were new and there was no way then to justify buying them. At that time in the early 80s the Gamble consoles were far superior so I bought some of those. Later I bought the first Midas XL3 in North America and the second Paragon as well as a slew of others.&nbsp; As for the really old Harrison consoles (like the ones Maryland Sound had) that had the first VCA feature set avoid them completely. They are the noisiest things around and broke all the time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mark Herman, post: 18777, member: 72"] Re: showconsole - too good to be true? The Show Console is IMHO a very bad investment. It seems like a good idea at first but in reality you can do far better. I don't think I'd even take a free one because it is just going to cause you grief forever. I have bought a lot of consoles in the past and learned that repeatedly fixing unreliable consoles is not worth the hassle with downtime, time soak and the money pit they become. Plus your resale value will always continue to drop unless it is a very solid performer that doesn't break. The Show Console always had problems from the beginning - no matter what people might say. It was a great idea and really cool if you had someone else fixing it (Showco and then Clair) and had a spare console around. As for those of you who are interested in Harrisson consoles - they are terrible messes that sounded good when they worked - which was sometimes. Overpriced, not enough inputs, lack of part inventory, and horrible service. They didn't travel well on the road. I checked them out when they were new and there was no way then to justify buying them. At that time in the early 80s the Gamble consoles were far superior so I bought some of those. Later I bought the first Midas XL3 in North America and the second Paragon as well as a slew of others. As for the really old Harrison consoles (like the ones Maryland Sound had) that had the first VCA feature set avoid them completely. They are the noisiest things around and broke all the time. [/QUOTE]

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