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Hmm, the DCX has some really bad reviews:
"Within 6 months, 4 out of the 5 had some type of failure including one which would turn itself off and reboot in the middle of the gig"
"We run the top of the line Martin Audio speakers, and this thing has caused us to blow our subs numerous times. The brain in this xover get confused and will start to short circuit causing the xover points to become messed up and the output levels will sky rocket and then drop dead quiet, not what we need especially when we have to run bands."
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Should I keep reading? If this piece of hardware blowed my -expensive- speakers, there would be hell to pay!
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I don't know a thing about that. Sounds like a freak failure to me. No where, before, have I read of failure from a DCX causing loudspeaker damage such as you linked. Judging by the fact that 4 out of 5 failed, and in the same manner, this is indicative that they bought them at the same time, and all were from the same batch of manufacturing, all with the same manufacture error. This is definitely a freak occurrence. There used to be as large or larger set of reviews on zzounds.com that had no mention of any failure as described there. Unfortunately, zzounds.com seems to have removed the reviews on their products now, in lieu of a simple 10 star rating system. Nor have I read of that type of drastic/damaging failure such as that anywhere else online. To be sure, I am aware of some units failing, but the standard failure is nothing like that person describes. The standard failure I have read about on various web sites is a hissing noise, or crackle fuzz sound - related to a past quality control problem where some of the connector pins on the pc board were not trimmed to correct length, and making slight contact to the product's chassis. In the same era, it was also found that on some, the ribbon cable connecting the motherboard to the I/O board sometimes was loose, and had to be reseated. But these are very old problems from way back when the product first launched - I have not heard of these problems in any signficant number in the last 2 years or so. But like anything, you always have a chance of getting a dead or defective unit, which you can easily get replaced if you use a retailer like zzounds.com or musiciansfriend.com.
The DEQ is likely subject to same type of failures and and same failure rates as the DCX. These are made in the same factory with the same QC.
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I own two. I run them on two separate active systems. Of course, this is only 2 units - it's not like I have used 100 of them to be able to give you a statistically significant number of reliability. I have several friends(about 5) that also have one. 1 of these people did get a defective one. It had a defective ADC chip that caused a channel to drop out; it had to be replaced under warranty repair.
I have owned in the range of probably 12 to 14 Behringer items over the last 6 years. One item out of these did fail: an ECM-8000 measurement microphone died(no output signal).
BTW, this product is very popular in high end DIY loudspeaker systems and recently, it is gaining a lot of popularity in high end car audio systems as well(now that a 12VDC PS board is widely available for the unit).
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| Does it work as a room correction device (like the DEQ)? In other words, does it do the same EQ functionality? |
Yes, it can be used as a room correction device. It has up 9 parametric bands per stage. You can have as many as 18 parametric band per channel(you have two stages that stack: input channel stage and output channel stage, each has an EQ stage). I do enter in room correction filters along with using it as a crossover system.
-Chris
