On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 08:42 +0200, Jeremy Jongepier wrote: > On 09/10/2014 07:29 PM, Kelly Hirai wrote: > > i've had to fight the dust out of rotary encoders in several devices. > > behringers included. read timings or dust causing them to do things like > > jitter forward when you turn them back. that would be kind of a show > > stopper for me if it was cronic. > > The BCR/BCF-2000 rotary encoders do not suffer from this issue. Bought > mine second hand 4 years ago and never had any dust issues. You do need > to regularly dust them off or cover them though. But that applies to any > equipment of that kind. Does Behringer use the same rotary encoders for each release of those devices? Also to consider, for example, gloopy fine dust from the street is much more aggressive, than house dust, even if house dust comes in combination with cigarette smoke. IOW even identical hardware does behave different, in different locations. Different moisture, different temperature fluctuations etc. could make a big difference, military specifications are not only interesting for the military. Assumed Behringer should use high quality components, than indeed, the location doesn't matter that much and it even wouldn't matter that much, if they replace one high quality component by another high quality component. When I compare the Behringer gear with other gear I own, than even cheap gear from other companies provide more reliable components. I don't know the BCR/BCF-2000, it might be different for those devices. In my Behringer devices even the capacitors' voltage/temperature often is undersized. That's a known issue for switching power supplies used with consumer gear, but shouldn't happen for audio production gear, but Behringer doesn't care. When having not much money, Behringer IMO is a good choice, but to recommend Behringer gear as reliable gear isn't something I could do. YMMV! _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
