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Folks -

The ver1.4 firmware news sounds great! However, it won't be so simple for many out there.

The 27C512 eprom are nearly obsolete components. It looks like DigiKey is selling them at minimum buys of qty 15 for 0.75 each (plus shipping and tax and minimum $25 order charges). Probably best to find them elsewhere. In addition, folks will have to get access to a 'prom burner.

Plan A: Behringer is honorable and mails us eproms Pronto.

Plan B: We contact Uli Behringer and ask him what's up with his company's reputation. (should we also ask for FBQ2496's as replacements???)

Plan C: One of us purchases the quantity needed, burns them all at once, and sells them to folks here via PayPal. Meanwhile, we inform all the music stores selling these units that they have defective products...(well, Behringer has gotta pay for this mess somehow!)

Note: I'm still at the pre-plan "A" stage with Behringer customer support. They seem to think that using the DSP1124P in PA-only mode for equalization is a "not-intended use" scenario; as in they are edging towards saying "we don't support such uses". I don't think it really matters if I want to use it as a book-end or a door-mat. If it doesn't perform to spec, then it is defective. End of story. I really wonder what Uli B. would do if he really knew what his employees were doing do all his hard work. Honestly, every Behringer product I've seen is incredible well made, solid, and amazingly priced for that quality. Hopefully it was only a momentary lapse in quality that let the ver1.3 firmware out the door without so much as a simple three byte MIDI command test.

-Cheers