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<blockquote data-quote="Paul Johnson" data-source="post: 73142" data-attributes="member: 2643"><p>Re: repair schematics</p><p></p><p>So few products nowadays that use custom designed electronics - especially chips - provide the old fashioned service manuals that allow component level service. The TV manufacturers stopped providing them years ago, simply because this kind of service is simply too expensive. Computers follow the same system. Of course there are a few small businesses that continue to repair equipment at board level, but apart from the very obvious faults where you can see frazzled components - much repairing has to be educated guesswork. Ordering a replacement custom chip in the hope it fixes the fault is a very expensive procedure. Add the fact that for many purchasers, they already have a 3 year warranty - means taking kit apart nowadays is just unproductive. </p><p></p><p>The price point the Behringer sits at means that for the majority of it's life it will be under a warranty of some kind. What I mean is simply that by the time the desk is 3 years old, Behringer will be selling an X64, and people will be using that. Who buys any digital desk that is three years old apart from on ebay - at very cheap prices.</p><p></p><p>We're really not talking price points that are so expensive that a long lifespan is necessary - pleasant to have, of course - but the thought of spending 20% of a product's price having it fixed out of warranty is just uneconomic in today's climate. Fixing a desk like this might take half a day to get dismantled, get access to the fault, fix it, and reassemble and test, perhaps even longer? Work the costs out and draw your own conclusion!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Paul Johnson, post: 73142, member: 2643"] Re: repair schematics So few products nowadays that use custom designed electronics - especially chips - provide the old fashioned service manuals that allow component level service. The TV manufacturers stopped providing them years ago, simply because this kind of service is simply too expensive. Computers follow the same system. Of course there are a few small businesses that continue to repair equipment at board level, but apart from the very obvious faults where you can see frazzled components - much repairing has to be educated guesswork. Ordering a replacement custom chip in the hope it fixes the fault is a very expensive procedure. Add the fact that for many purchasers, they already have a 3 year warranty - means taking kit apart nowadays is just unproductive. The price point the Behringer sits at means that for the majority of it's life it will be under a warranty of some kind. What I mean is simply that by the time the desk is 3 years old, Behringer will be selling an X64, and people will be using that. Who buys any digital desk that is three years old apart from on ebay - at very cheap prices. We're really not talking price points that are so expensive that a long lifespan is necessary - pleasant to have, of course - but the thought of spending 20% of a product's price having it fixed out of warranty is just uneconomic in today's climate. Fixing a desk like this might take half a day to get dismantled, get access to the fault, fix it, and reassemble and test, perhaps even longer? Work the costs out and draw your own conclusion! [/QUOTE]
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