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Why on earth would someone go thru the effort to sell it at cost thought ? Also you underestimate economies of scale behringer can employ, I'd be surprised if
by adql 3y ago
Why on earth would someone go thru the effort to sell it at cost thought ?
Also you underestimate economies of scale behringer can employ, I'd be surprised if you could get close to their price.
You can look at various DIY stuff and you will probably notice that getting stuff DIY isn't all that much cheaper
I'll throw you an example:
Maths, which Behringer cloned, costs ~$300 fully assembled
Befaco Rampage, which is pretty much equivalent to Maths, costs $185 in DIY kit.
Behringer Abacus is $100
They are basically selling them at price or below what DIY kit would sell, and not that far off "cost of components"
- elihu 3y agoI could see a well-motivated hobbyist or group of hobbyists doing the design for fun, or to make a point. People do similarly ambitious things all the time. Behringer has impressive scale, but honestly I think for PCB manufacture and assembly, JLCPCB probably has them beat -- and any random hobbyist has access to JLCPCB. The cost of Maths and Rampage has more to do with having to earn enough to pay all their employees and make a decent profit that the actual marginal cost of manufacturing one more module. Maths is very popular, but it's still a fairly low-volume market. I think one thing it would be hard to compete with Behringer on is enclosures. But maybe that doesn't matter; a Neutron/Proton clone wouldn't necessarily need one if it's a Eurorack module.