Behringer head with amps worth it?

[Snowy_here]

Found below image on Marketplace for $200, I know very little about amps/cabs. Anyone has any experience with these particular ones, and would this be worth it or save up for better quality. I am hoping to play live medium to large shows and thought this would be a deal @ $200??? Looks heavy

 

[dune]

Yeah, but the cabs seem to be $600. Are they built better than these guys or about the same??

$525 @SW right now. Doubles up the same drivers.
Obviously more than that $200 for the Behringer stuff you're considering, but I would imagine that it's going to sound at least twice as good and be far more reliable. Not to mention how "matchy" it is.

 

[shoot-r]

Every manufacturer has some decent equipment in their lineup and every manufacturer has some clunkers in their lineup...Behringer's bass cabinets and the drivers they use unfortunately falls heavily into the clunker category.

 

[InkCow]

One other thing you might want to do is ask over in Fender Rumble Club thread for recommendations for cabs that members have found that pair well with an 800, to give you a wider net to cast than just used Rumbles.

 

[DWBass]

Snag that Carvin. Offer $100 for it.

 

[Jens Telemark]

I know they're not a favorite around here, but I use a few of their pieces. I use a little DAW they make for practice, it was maybe forty bucks and works just fine. Same with their cheap DI boxes, I have a couple floating around and have made a few sound engineer's days by having an extra (you never know).

I don't own this one myself, but I've played a few places that had one of their little kickback 112 amp on stage as monitor/backline…and you know what, that sucker was plenty loud and sounded good enough for me to hear what I was doing and not be fighting with it. Seems to be ok stuff for a low price.

Uli Behringer has made a fortune selling cheap knockoffs of designs copied from other companies.
He's a thief who's been sued multiple time for copyright infringement.

Behringer has sued people on forums like this for saying mean things about his company.
He's behaved like a petty, vindictive boob.

A close friend and longtime TC Electronics employee who was VP of app development or something at the time Behringer bought TC told me a story I can't repeat in public about how that purchase happened.
Behringer has behaved like a spoiled little boy king ruled by his ego.

No pride of craftsmanship goes into Behringer products.
The stuff is crappy sounding disposable landfill sold by a person I see as a petty vindictive egomaniac thief.
Life is too short to support people like Uli Behringer.

Behringer Controlled Companies
Bugera
Coolaudio
Klark Teknik
Lab.gruppen
Lake
Midas
Tannoy
TC Electronic
TC-Helicon
Turbosound

 

[Engle]

I can't think of one good reason to spend a dime on anything Behringer makes. Get an extension cab.

Agreed the bass amps aren't great, but they do have some solid gear. The FCB-1010 is built like a tank and the XR series mixers are pretty good.

 

[InkCow]

Agreed the bass amps aren't great, but they do have some solid gear. The FCB-1010 is built like a tank and the XR series mixers are pretty good.

Also Behringer wouldn't receive a dime by purchasing these, but that's neither here nor there.

I have a Flow 8 that I got off FB Marketplace for a price that I try not to think too much about the ethics of how it got to my hands. It's a pretty cool little mixer: I'm sure there are better alternatives in its class, but for a small PA mixer/usb interface, I can't see what more I'd need.

 

[DWBass]

So no reference to ALL the other manufacturers that clone pedals, FSO's, etc.? Are we still bashing Behringer/Music Tribe? My Bugera amp works and sounds great.

 

[InkCow]

So no reference to ALL the other manufacturers that clone pedals, FSO's, etc.? Are we still bashing Behringer/Music Tribe? My Bugera amp works and sounds great.

I think there's plenty of objectionable behavior from Music Tribe above the (common) practice of copying designs that at least deserves acknowledgment when purchasing their products. I don't know that it's a hill I'm prepared to die on (I'm not above a corporate boycott, but Music Tribe isn't currently on my list), but I can at least recognize that, as an organization, they're pretty sleazy and feel a modicum of guilt when I purchase one of their products new.