Because I don't know of any mixer under a grand that sounds as nice (verses Pioneer, Biamp, Rane, Xones, Stantons, and other Numarks), and I got it for a really good price warrantied direct from Numark.
I get to chock up yet another go-around. Unit got repaired again in Reno, fixing the headphone jack and channel 4, but now channel 1 has no right channel on any input ever and both channel 1 & 3's rear input selection switches are also intermittent.
Again they emailed a shipping label and are trying again. I packed it in an insane amount of bubble wrap, and a box within a box w