I have to point out that despite behringers supposed bad name I don't remember the last time I was in a studio or venue that didn't have *something* behringer even if it was only patch bays.
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I don't think I'd be interested in a desk that couldn't be component-fixed. Given the choice between changing a few quids worth of discrete components or a few £100 worth of pcb I know which I'd choose. Neither am I interested in some monolithic product which either it all works or its all useless. Having one channel go down is a PITA but not a show stopper. Neither do I want to hold up the gig while we wait for Windoze CE to reboot itself. Fuck Digital.
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In all honestly over the last 3 years I've found it's the analog consoles that can be more of a pain and expense to maintain. And even though all the consoles we have (with the exception of one really cheap one) are built using separate channel cards it's still days worth of work to do every single channel on the 32 channel 8 bus desks. There's 544 pots to unbolt and service on one of those just to do the channel strips. Then there's the groups and master section. Pots get grainy, faders wear out, you get noise and sudden jumps in gain due to wear and dirt on the carbon wipers. And there's a couple of things that will stop the show on an analog desk. Internal power supply failure will stop the whole desk (had that happen on a Studiomaster series 5) Master bus failure will kill any audio not using any other groups the L\R .
With a digital desk you don't need worry so much about servicing because there's very few analog pots or faders to go bad. Some designs use analog pots for trim gain on the front end and maybe and aux sends but that's about it. Everything else is digital \ encoder operated, so won't wear in the normal sense. There is a chance the main PCB with the DSP on it can go wrong though and that can mean anything. I had a Tascam that couldn't write to the DSP memory so flashed up an error every 30 seconds but thankfully carried on passing audio. I've had a screen go funny on an Yamaha LS9 but tapping it lightly got it working enough to see what was selected. If a desk does need a reboot, it's only seconds, like a Boss GT10 type time and some a lot quicker. Never seen one running Windows thankfully
The real answer I spose it to have a spare of everything .... even the desk
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