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Originally posted by travlin'easy:
As for the above comment about buttons meeting military specs--you must be kidding! Military specs brought us $800 toilet seats, $500 screw drivers and other, utterly ridiculously overpriced products. If that Fairlight DAW's switches met military specs you couldn't afford it. Hmmmmm! Which military would that be?


You're missing the point. Button, pot, and switch manufacturers make various grades of products. Military grade is the highest specification which is a classification and has nothing to do with them being overpriced. Most high end pro audio companies (Manley, Massenburg, Forssell) use these type of switches and for one simple reason, they work great, last nearly forever, and their failure rate is practically non existent.

Yamaha does not use these type of switches because they prefer to keep their profit margins high and the way to do that is to utilize cheap components.

The Fairlight DAW does in fact use military spec switches, buttons, and components and it is by no means overpriced for the product you are getting. Fairlight uses these type of products because they are rock solid, reliable, and will give years of use without question.