BTW, I was aware of the Behringer lawsuits and so forth, when I bought my first Behringer product, the V-Amp 2. I think Aphex may have won the battle with Behringer, though Mackie did not.

In that V-Amp 2 product, I saw usability that outshined the competition at the time in several ways - but primarily with the way that Behringer used optical encoders, with lit LEDs for where the knob position was located, for the almost all of the knobs on the product, when everyone else was relying entirely on LCD readouts.

I bought the V-Amp 2 for darkened stage use, and the lit knobs on the thing gave it a level of functionality that the other products I was shopping at the time, simply did not have:

(Original Line-6 POD, Johnson J-Station, whatever Digitech pedal was similarly priced at the time).

The lit knobs allows one to see what type of preset is being selected, from rather far distance. All of the other units on the market required me to be within a couple feet of the display.

That did it for me. People claimed that Behringer was ripping off the Line-6 POD because it was similarly shaped. The two products were nothing alike, other than they did amp simulation with effects.

As for ripoffs, that CT100 sure does look like a copy of the Swizz Army product. This goes back to before I bought my first piece of Behringer Gear, roughly 2005 or so time frame.

I don't know that they still do this. It appears to me that they have taken a different approach in the past 5 or so years, instead buying music equipment companies outright.

How were they able to do that? Perhaps by saving money on product design and development that other companies spent money on. I don't like that one bit.

-Scott

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