Behringer vs Oberheim
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- KVRAF
- 4377 posts since 15 Feb, 2020
That's a decision I can get behind.
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- KVRian
- 523 posts since 26 Jan, 2020
Just the audacity to try this.
But this seems like Behringer’s strategy and values.
Be idiots. Us agains them. And get a base on those merits rather than innovation and quality.
But this seems like Behringer’s strategy and values.
Be idiots. Us agains them. And get a base on those merits rather than innovation and quality.
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- KVRAF
- 1631 posts since 10 Oct, 2018
It was probably cheaper than a regular advertisement. Then again... they just could call it: OB-eh
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- KVRAF
- 2945 posts since 23 Dec, 2002
I wish they cool it with the nonsense, make the clones that no one else is able to build and sell for a reasonable price and stop trying to be the bad karma coin collectors. They don’t need to steal prestige by going after the pioneers names; their clones are excellent. That should be enough.
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- addled muppet weed
- 105872 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
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- KVRAF
- 1631 posts since 10 Oct, 2018
If they make a giant sized 88 OB-Xa version for about €3000, then that would be something.
- Banned
- 7624 posts since 13 Nov, 2015 from Norway
i don't get it, whats the problem here?
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- KVRAF
- 7874 posts since 24 May, 2002 from Tutukaka, New Zealand
They applied for a patent, the patent was declined. They'll end up selling it called something else, and they might even have to make it look just a tiny bit different. Seems like perfectly normal business to me. At least they went through the proper channels. I won't personally buy one - I never got hooked by the OB sound. Why are the fanboys so enrgised about this - or is anyone really? To me Behringer have just got better and better, they're providing stuff at a fraction of the price for genuine quality that the rest of the market basically said "go f**k yourselves, we're not gonna do it".
Nothing to see here IMO.
Nothing to see here IMO.
- KVRAF
- 2544 posts since 20 Apr, 2005
Behringer are not Oberheim. They're just some shady guy on the street corner selling knock off Tag Heller and Rulex watches.
Even if they are allowed to copy the underlying circuits etc, I think it's a cheap, uninspired, anti creative, misleading and duplicitous scummy approach to be making these knock offs in such similarly designed and named forms to the originals.
They have no shame and no imagination. Money grubbing ass hats.
And!! The synths don't even sound right in most cases!
Even if they are allowed to copy the underlying circuits etc, I think it's a cheap, uninspired, anti creative, misleading and duplicitous scummy approach to be making these knock offs in such similarly designed and named forms to the originals.
They have no shame and no imagination. Money grubbing ass hats.
And!! The synths don't even sound right in most cases!
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- KVRAF
- 35436 posts since 11 Apr, 2010 from Germany
The difference is that their build parts are exact replicas of the original build parts of those synthesizers.
For the rest of your post: Many owners of the original gear disagree. That's all I can say to that really.
- KVRAF
- 15274 posts since 8 Mar, 2005 from Utrecht, Holland
Nope, there was no patent. They requested registration of "Behringer Oberheim" as a trademark. Being intellectual property is the only resemblance. And both are dealt with by the USPTO.
Fully agree on that.
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- Banned
- 7624 posts since 13 Nov, 2015 from Norway
ah i see. and no there is nothing special about the OB sound really.kritikon wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 9:36 am They applied for a patent, the patent was declined. They'll end up selling it called something else, and they might even have to make it look just a tiny bit different. Seems like perfectly normal business to me. At least they went through the proper channels. I won't personally buy one - I never got hooked by the OB sound. Why are the fanboys so enrgised about this - or is anyone really? To me Behringer have just got better and better, they're providing stuff at a fraction of the price for genuine quality that the rest of the market basically said "go f**k yourselves, we're not gonna do it".
Nothing to see here IMO.
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