Behringer Truth B2031A Active 8″ Studio Monitors

The Behringer Truth B2031A 8″ monitors come as a pair. When it comes to your studio recordings, you want honesty. In fact, considering how important your art is, you should demand it! That’s why we designed the B2031A Reference Monitors to speak nothing but the TRUTH. Oh, they still sound great hooked up to your stereo or your video surround system, but they were really built with the studio in mind—where every note you play or sing is “under the microscope.”

The 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 multi-channel surround setups.

The TRUTH B2031A is a serious contender capable of achieving output levels in excess of 116 dB SPL. Powered by separate 80- and 25-Watt built-in amplifiers with an active crossover, these monitors provide ultra-linear frequency response from 50 Hz to 21 kHz.

After final assembly, each B2031A spends up to a half hour with a Calibration Engineer being meticulously tweaked to ensure ultra-linear frequency response.

When you buy a TRUTH B2031A monitor, you’re truly getting a hand-calibrated unit. We ship a calibration certificate with each B2031A that shows the actual frequency response of your monitor, as tested at the time of manufacture.
After all these rigorous tests, only then is the speaker granted its own Graduation Diploma.

Bookshelf-style home stereo speakers can really fool you when it comes to bass output, mainly because they are not designed for critical listening applications. That’s why recording engineers and producers listen to projects through studio reference monitors or studio-grade headphones. The B2031A’s long-throw 8.75″ polypropylene-diaphragm woofer delivers smooth, deep bass all the way down to 50 Hz. Bass content that isn’t exaggerated, as it can be in home speaker systems. Rock-solid bass that is an honest representation of the recorded sound, full of subtle nuance; the sound of fingers on the strings, or the rush of air through the long pipes of a cathedral organ, etc.

Polypropylene is light and strong, enabling the speaker cone to respond very quickly to fast transient peaks. This low-mass cone material is also much stiffer than paper, important for not only maintaining bass content integrity, but critical for midrange accuracy and definition. The deformation-resistant aluminium die-cast chassis maintains suspension integrity and provides highly efficient voice-coil cooling, even under extreme operating conditions.

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 won’t wear a hole in the carpet in that one spot where everything sounds great. 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.

Features

• Ultra-linear frequency response from 50 Hz to 21 kHz with individual frequency diagrams
• Built-in 265-Watt Bi-amp module with enormous power reserve
• Ultra-high resolution ferrofluid-cooled tweeter
• Long-throw 8 ¾” woofer with special polypropylene diaphragm and deformation-resistant aluminium die-cast chassis
• Controlled dispersion characteristics and extremely large “sweet spot” owing to the unique BEHRINGER wave guide technology
• Active crossover network with 4th order Linkwitz-Riley filters
• Adjustable to a wide range of acoustic conditions and subwoofer operation
• Separately controlled limiter for low and high frequency overload protection
• Automatic standby mode (defeatable)
• Magnetic shielding allows placement near computer monitors
• Servo-balanced inputs with XLR and ¼” TRS connectors
• High-quality components and exceptionally rugged construction ensure long life
• 3 Year Warranty
• Conceived and designed by BEHRINGER Germany