Me and a buddy bought an XS-8 each in the big $100 sale around 2003/2004. It's not a clone, Everything inside is marked "Ecler". Ecler had discontinued the 320 and Tascam just made them continue making it for them, together with the HAK310 (XS-4). The only difference AFAIK is two foot pedal inputs and a new chassis. Anyway, rock solid mixer, and we've never had any issues. I had a Vestax PMC-07 Pro when I bought mine, sold it within a couple of weeks and never regretted it. The XS-8 was just so much better in every aspect. It should be noted that one of us have used them all that much the last 6-7 years or so, due to kids, work, etc, but they still work perfectly fine.