Now, similar personal monitor mixers to match in P16 price will help sell the rest of the gear in that budget A&H range.

The prices of the your mixers have dropped twice since I purchased. Please A&H, I have been banging on this concept for years. Isn’t AES50 an open standard free from royalties? I may be wrong on this but wasn’t it invented by Sony and then made public domain? If a new IEM mixer is not in the cards at least let us have an AES50 compatible interface for feeding the monitor bus. I realize the P16Ms are disposable but I can buy spares. My GLD80 could assign the 16 most important channels to the monitor snake and make do. I would buy some even if I could only utilize the first 16 channels from my digital monitor feed. It just seems if they want to compete with the Behringer ecosystem they have to play in the same budget priced league and make other gear compatible. Many people do not need the features of the ME-1 when coupled to a budget mixer. A&H ME-1s are three times the price and the distributor is about five times the price.

One of the biggest hold backs from people buying a QU is when they consider the price of the IEM mixers. I would be willing to bet a dozen donuts Allen & Heath is furiously working on a personal monitor mixer to compete with the P16M.

Behringer powerplay 16 setup