Re: Will you buy Behringer equipment again after reading this?

I know exactly what I'm talking about, when I started in electronics, nearly everything was tubes, and I've worked on tube audio circuits for many years. As I've said before, you may be a damned good lawyer but you don't know crap about electronics. I'm not misleading anyone, you're the mis-informed one.

I do not believe, and will not believe, that you have any education whatsoever past high school. You have shown very clearly in the past year or two in this newsgroup what your level of education and experience is. The fact that you may have built some Heathkits 35 years ago, which were designed for inexperienced, untrained people to build and which came with step-by-step instructions intended to be understandable by a 10-year-old, doesn't mean you have an education. And the fact that you can Google things and regurgitate the contents of web pages (you just did a little research to confirm what you already knew -- oh yeah, sure, right) doesn't mean jack. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if my high school and college physics and engineering courses, and what I learned to get an FCC amateur-radio license (plus building those same Heath and Dynaco kits 30-some years ago, as well as projects from scratch), gives me a much better electronics background than you have.

But the fact is, even if you were an MIT professor and I were just some old, unemployed doofus sitting on his computer all day, it wouldn't matter. The fact is, you don't have a Behringer Ultragain mic pre. You don't have a Peavey T-Max bass amp. You have no idea what they sound like, how they work, or what their features are. Yet, you feel you can lecture me about the specific attributes of those pieces of gear. I actually have that Behringer mic pre, and have used it, and continue to use it, frequently. I had a T-Max for years. While we're on the topic of actual, real-life experience, I am also an actual bass player, who's been performing in public in bands for almost 40 years, I'm not just someone who fiddles around alone in his basement and then talks smart about bass on Usenet.

The fact is, you can't hear any "tube warmth" in the Behringer mic pre. You don't hear hard distortion in the solid-state pre in a T-Max, but you do in the tube section, after running it hard for about two hours. These are real-world, observed facts, of which you have no knowledge. If you have no knowledge of those things, then you can't argue about them. But you do.

Let me guess -- it's time to play the Alzheimer's card and exit stage left again, right?
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