The reason Behringer is so loathed in the pro audio community is that they are notorious for cloning other peoples products - literally opening up the competiti

The reason Behringer is so loathed in the pro audio community is that they are notorious for cloning other peoples products - literally opening up the competition, seeing whats inside, and reproducing the design - with cheaper components - "in China" and so on. So while we do get cheaper products that are 'good enough' from Behringer, for a long time they had a deleterious effect on the industry - I know of a number of products that didn't make it to market because it was known that Behringer would clone the design ..