The Qu16 I bought has lost 10% on its new price in Europe within the last three months. Their wise sales guy “Alex” wrote here somewhen “I dare to call that a smart investment”.
Of course. What a smart investment. Before and of year 25% price fall? Are these units supposed to be as disposal as laptops or mobiles?
Now I know how people in the US felt when they lowered the price by 500USD by the end of the last year. What a way to piss off customers.
Isn’t that the way it is with most audio equipment? I was one of the early adopters and felt a little begrudged when they dropped the price but that’s showbiz.
the 24 is dropping some more because the 32 is out, Im sure in a year that 32 will be 2800
and keep falling…
Sure, at some point this becomes important. I guess they do their best.
my 16 is made in UK did they start making them in China to lower the price? I rather pay a little extra and have the very best compact mixer with no corners cut.
My QU-16 was one of the first released here and made in the UK, will hopefully have better resale value than Chinese made equipment.
The UK units are probably better build quality but the early models had a problem where they would produce an audible Pop when plugging in a mic (even while muted). It’s in all the release notes. I sent mine in for repair and they replaced it with a Chinese unit. The new one works fine and no more pop!
V1.5 eliminated phantom pop problem also.
I want my UK Unit Back!
Must be honest, I never experianced that even before V1.5, only positive things so far to say about the desk, excellent.
really the new ones are not made in UK??
I Have heard the quality control is excellent from China and that rejection rate goes down with the Chinese production runs.
Equipment goes out of date pretty quick these days.
The planet is a different place now.
Cost of equipment goes down.
only Land appreciates.
Its nice to have new equipment however they are just tools of the trade.
The cost of changing from Analogue consoles has been quite huge for myself
I held out right until the end not wanting iLive or the GLD
as I used to repair computers in the field 30 years ago.
And looking in the backs of iLives etc gave me the …
However the QU changed all of that.
SO i’m down to just 3 Analogue desks now.(plus the new QU’s)
as I say I lost money changing over.
It’s just business. win some loose some…
However I do have an original QU16 and they have black screws holding the faders up
up. The Chinese QU’s have silver screws.
So this particular post was about prices falling…
If I wait until next year will the QU32 and the GLD be any cheaper?
Probably…
The digital revolution is exponential
sorry to crash this post here
Does any one know where I can find a detailed explanation of how to connect Dante 2x GLD112 together (for a digital split) (FOH & Monitors) with using the AR2412 and AR08. I don’t have access to the GLDs but need to pre-read before I order anything.
cheers
dave NZ
The deflation keeps going on… 12% price fall in six months. I wish I had waited longer before buying 
I know, how dare Allen & Heath. First they start adding features with firmware updates and now they are optimizing production and passing the savings along to their customers!?!?
I knew I should have went with Behringer, they know how to manage my expectations by never lowering prices, keeping quality consistently low, and never adding features.
Well, it’s like falling stock prices… If I would have thought of this I would have prefered to wait for them to decide at what price their going to sell the unit.
It’s 13% loss now, btw.
What price drop are you referencing? What item? What is the current price?
So, when Apple sells its new iPhone later this fall, they should continue to sell it for the same price indefinitely? That makes no sense at all. Early adopters will always pay more. That’s just the way it is.
In response to dhak’s post.
Not all UK made QU-16’s had black screws, mine is an early UK made unit that has the standard silver screws.
Lee
GCumbee, I’m referring to the Qu-16 in Europe. Price in March: 1990€. Price today: 1690€
So it’s 15% loss on the brand new street price by today.
Mamerica, I understand your argument but there is no “Qu-16 2” at the moment. This kind of price drop isn’t normal even in the PC industry. Also neither the Bellringer nor Soundcraft have done that to the X32 or SiEx1.
It looks like they didn’t plan to produce a Qu-24 or Qu-32 at first and are now forced to lower the price of the smaller unit. Nevertheless, it’s not funny. If I was a PA rental house I wouldn’t find it funny either.
I think, if you want to put your product in a more competitive position against other companies, better load it with features others have. And don’t let your customers wait for a year for channel names and EQ band colors and the such.
OT: the traffic to this site seems to be routed through one of the Voyagers…