Behringer buys Midas

[arv_foh]

"KIDDERMINSTER, UK — The Music Group signed a deal to acquire the Midas and Klark Teknik brands from Bosch Communications Systems. The Music Group owns the Behringer brand as well as a number of other associated companies and is managed by Uli Behringer and Michael Deeb."

http://fohonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3128&Itemid=1

Anyone else find this odd? haha

 

[Seizure.]

I hope the time doesn't come that is start to dislike mixing on midas desks :S

 

[Kazrog]

I will never get my car tuned up by them again... damn you, Uli!!!!

 

[slashvanyoung]

The official press photo makes Uli look like a Backstreet Boy:

 

[garry666]

fuck wouldnt that suck to have your last name associated with absolute shit.

 

[Where She Wept]

that's capitalism.

 

[ahjteam]

well, Peavey did the same thing back in the days as Behringer does today.

 

[Wolfeman]

well, Peavey did the same thing back in the days as Behringer does today.

At least Peavey had good QC

 

[Wolfeman]

I will never get my car tuned up by them again... damn you, Uli!!!!

When I saw the thread title, I actually thought that's what this was about

 

[katatonic.]

At least Peavey had good QC

And they didn't make their stuff in China back in the day

 

[Torniojaws]

And they didn't make their stuff in China back in the day

Back in the day it was cheaper to make them locally, plus China was pretty much closed then

 

[Josh M.]

Well aren't some of Behringer's mixing desks a complete ripoff of Midas ones?
Yes. They are.

Well maybe these two pictures are not the BEST example. But you can see where I am coming from - having the busses and master in the right-middle.

 

[scorpio01169]

Well aren't some of Behringer's mixing desks a complete ripoff of Midas ones?
Yes. They are.

Well maybe these two pictures are not the BEST example. But you can see where I am coming from - having the busses and master in the right-middle.

^
Mackie ripoff

 

[Josh M.]

^
Mackie ripoff

Well then maybe they should buy Mackie.

 

[ahjteam]

^
Mackie ripoff

Nope, thats a carbon copy of Midas Venice.

 

[KillFrenzy]

Well then maybe they should buy Mackie.

If they bought every ripoff, then everything would belong to Behringer.

 

[colonel kurtz]

maybe their new strategy is that, rather than settling lawsuits with companies they rip off, they'll just buy them...

 

[slashvanyoung]

It's quite a logical progression for them. They gain more market share and more opportunities for technology transfers. They created this umbrella brand, "The Music Group", exactly for that purpose... and they just started. They've already left an open invite to the industry to offer their brands to them, so we can expect so see other household names being acquired in the not so distant future.

This will be the audio version of Skynet.

 

[HunFire]

The official press photo makes Uli look like a Backstreet Boy:

jesus christ what a douche

 

[Skaldir]

tbh I don't think that Behringer is as bad as most of you guys say.
Everything I bought from Behringer still runs without mistakes. Maybe the equipment is from lower quality, but that's why it's so cheap.

Especially in the last weeks I think this forum became very strict in it's opinion about what's good and bad. Seems like the greytones dissappear, cause everything is either black or white...