... They innovate plenty where they see the opportunity. ... The X-Air mixer which blows away everything at that price point
The X-Air mixer IS a cost effective Midas XR where the Midas model comes w/ hotter outputs and better S/N ratio.
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Since Behringer owns Midas, I guess they can do things like that. They did the same thing with the X32/M32, where one is Behringer with Behringer preamps and the other is Midas with Midas preamps at different price points.
I disagree. They innovate plenty where they see the opportunity. Case in point? The X-Air mixer which blows away everything at that price point. The DeepMind is another example. I'm sure there are others.
The Xair is not original in any way. I saw an Australian company (forget their name) showing the original product lineup of 3 models at Music Messes about 5 years ago. They got a lot of attention inside the industry. Behringer just made copies.
The Australian company product line morphed into the SoundCraft line of Ui12, Ui16, and Ui24R. I don't know if the company was bought or the design was licensed or how that happened.
Didn't the XAir also come out like 5 years ago? I'm not saying they didn't steal the idea, but it just seems a bit difficult to steal an idea and come out with it the same year as the thing you stole it from. Seems like it would take a bit of time to reverse engineer it to steal it. Really, at the core the XAir stuff is a shrunk down version of the X32 stuff with a built in wireless access point. So maybe they just stole the idea of adding a built-in access point from this company?