"Eeyore"
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Mackie isn't high-end.

It "sounds good". When I bought mine, I let it "break in" for a day, then
ran bypass tests on the mic preamps cum line outputs. I couldn't hear the
unit. J. Gordon Holt, who founded Stereophile, ran a similar test on a
Mackie he purchased, and was similarly surprised at the unit's transparency.