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Review on Bookshelf speaker system BEHRINGER Truth B2031A 1 speaker black by Stanislaw Pietka ᠌

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Everything is fine, I liked the product, I bought it for a reason.

Ideal in terms of price / quality ratio, build quality, sound quality, listening experience. If you just want to take "speakers" for yourself to listen to music without problems, get ready to get used to the sound without coloration, without raised low and high frequencies, etc. A friend has an Edifier R2730DB, multimedia speakers, in fact, 2 times cheaper; when compared, he gets the impression that they sound "more interesting". But I'm already used to the smooth sound. To unleash their full potential, you need, firstly, a decent DAC with balanced outputs (but even with the E-MU 1616m it works just fine). Secondly, and perhaps most importantly, is the acoustic design of the room. If it is small, not high, and there are a lot of bare walls and wooden furniture, they are more likely to destroy your ears, because already at 25-30% of the volume there are so many parasitic resonances in the air that the sense from listening even at medium volume is lost. It is very important to properly prepare the room for the sound, at least wisely arrange the furniture, the speakers themselves, not to mention all sorts of bass traps and acoustic panels. In a prepared studio, they will sound much better.

Pros
  • Initially, I was looking for just such an option, for reasonable money, decent sound and a built-in amplifier, because. there is no possibility to bother with a full-fledged construction of an audio path now. Got what I wanted 100%. Clean, smooth, distinct monitor sound. But it does not kill all the beauty of the music, you can listen just for fun, and not just for monitoring / mixing. Surprisingly, the detail is better than in headphones (AKG 271, Sennheiser HD650, ATH-ES10). Very powerful, can be used as near and midfield monitors. When working somewhere at 50% volume, noticeable distortion is not audible. I haven’t tried it again, there is no soundproofing in the apartment, the neighbors will kill me. The bass is quite sufficient, very powerful, but not overpowered, it all depends on the recording, but also on a million things, especially the parameters of the room and the placement of the speakers. Even at high volume, the sound is very soft, does not press on the ears and does not cause tinnitus. Phase inverters look forward, which allows you not to bother much with installation in corners and niches. Design looks very cool. I don’t know how mathematically effective double thin phase inverters are there, but it looks interesting. The materials are very pleasant, in appearance and to the touch.
Cons
  • Perhaps, the built-in amplifiers are heating up, but this is not a minus, these are the features of modern technology. I may be picking, but it would be nice to have an acoustically transparent protective mesh. Open to the world, bare speakers hide the possible pain of a squeezed cap or something worse. On woofers, there are no mechanical tricks to eliminate "standing waves", such as speaker staggering or other chips. But, probably, I'm not talking about that price range.