Behringer Truth B2031a
The new baby in Behringer's Truth monitor range offers great value for money. Behringer B2030A Truth. The B2030A reviewed here and the larger B2031A. Only at Sweetwater! Bulk Pricing and 0% Financing for your Behringer Truth B2031A 8.75' Powered Studio Monitor!
The single Behringer TRUTH B2031A is a bi-amplified 2-way studio monitor with a 1' tweeter and 8.75' woofer housed in a sturdy, vibration-resistant cabinet, and powered by a 75 and 150 Watt amplifier. The input connectors are Balanced XLR and 1/4' TRS, and the magnetic speaker shielding we've come to expect has been provided. The documentation for the TRUTH B2031A speakers emphasizes their inherent linearity of frequency response and the neutrality of the playback experience, meant to decrease listener fatigue and increase the area of the elusive 'Sweet Spot'. However, if the neutral listening experience is not for you, or if the sound of your control room is less than desirable, Behringer has generously included a cockpit's worth of rear-panel frequency control switches enabling the user to tune the speakers to the environment or simply to taste.
Our TRUTH B2031A monitors have been so wildly successful, that we’ve sold thousands upon thousands of them to some of the most critical ears on the planet. Due to their high resolution performance, B2031A active 2-way reference studio monitors are perfect for near-field monitoring applications – from small mixing environments to multichannel surround setups. When it comes to your studio recordings, you want honesty.
Behringer Truth B2031a Studio Monitors
In fact, considering how important your art is, you should demand it! That’s why we designed the B2031A Active 2-Way Reference Monitor to speak nothing but the TRUTH. The B2031A boasts big power, 265 Watts of bi-amplified output to an ultra-responsive, long-throw 8.75' polypropylene woofer, which provides tight and accurate bass – and a high-resolution, ferrofluid-cooled tweeter for crystal-clear highs. And although it was designed for the studio, where every note you play or sing is always “under the microscope”, the B2031A makes an absolutely fantastic addition to your stereo or video surround system! Powerful amplifiers coupled with state-of-the-art technology sure sounds impressive – but what about the part of the system you actually hear? We never cut corners on our transducers (woofers and tweeters), and we never just pull what we have off the shelf.
Our LF (Low Frequency) and HF (High Frequency) transducers are designed specifically for each application – it’s what sets us apart from the competition. When you buy a TRUTH B2031A active monitor, you can rest assured the transducers inside have been engineered to perform flawlessly with every other element for truly professional results. As a result, the B2031A provides ruler-flat frequency response from 50 Hz - 21 kHz, with tight and accurate low end, articulately-detailed mids and crystal-clear highs. The B2031A’s HF (High Frequency) content comes courtesy of an ultra-high resolution 1.0' ferrofluid-cooled tweeter mounted on our proprietary wave guide. While some of our competitor’s studio monitors have a highly-focused “sweet spot” (the optimal listening position for a pair of loudspeakers), our wave guide is designed to create a much more generous, broader listening zone.
That means you are free to move around inside the stereo image to find the ideal spot in the mix for subtle instrument or effects placement opportunities. The ideal environment for listening is a room that is “flat,” neither too reflective (echoes) nor too absorptive (where the sound is muffled). But since all rooms are not the same acoustically, your TRUTH B2031A comes equipped to function in a wide variety of environments. Rear panel filter switches are provided to adapt the monitor’s low- and high-frequency characteristics for optimal performance – specifically for your listening environment.
Monitor placement is also critical. Ideally, all loudspeakers should be placed away from walls to ensure proper bass response.
The B2031A features a set of Room Compensation switches so you can place it against walls, or even in corners. Walls tend to enhance low-frequency content, and corners exaggerate bass even more, but your B2031A TRUTH can be custom-tailored to provide honest bass response for your situation, with the simple flick of a switch or two.