the crew i play for all the time owns an allen and heath, and i hated it at first, with the 2 mids and the weird faders and knobs

its grown on me a bit...i still hate the faders and the knobs arent to my liking (the newer one has way better knobs), but the sound quality on the AH is superior to the pioneer by a landslide.

if they could combine the user friendlyness of the pioneer with the quality of the AH then that would be a tight mixer