Don't the Behringer 2031A's have auto standby? The website says they do anyway - you shouldn't need to turn them off or need to use an energy saving plug.
- Speakers pop on powering on (power button to rear) with clipping light coming on and bass driver making notable excursion (I leave the speakers on for this reason. I may experiment with turning them on via energy saving plug). Pop doesn't happen when switching on from rear panel rather than top power switch
I wonder if blu-tack applied round the outside of the ports would dampen even better? It is cheap, malleable and should dampen well.I was annoyed with the ringing of the ports when touched. Idk if there were any audible issues with how flimsy and ringy they are, but it bugged me so I opened them up. Solution was simple, hair ties. I rolled 5 onto each port and measured the right port on a speaker with hair ties, and one without.
In theory, yes, but in practise the speakers will shut off at normal, but low level volumes (even when amps are at low gain on speaker, requiring larger input) and then you have to turn the volume up to loud to get them to turn on again. Not much fun.Don't the Behringer 2031A's have auto standby? The website says they do anyway - you shouldn't need to turn them off or need to use an energy saving plug.
I wonder if blu-tack applied round the outside of the ports would dampen even better? It is cheap, malleable and should dampen well.
In theory, yes, but in practise the speakers will shut off at normal, but low level volumes (even when amps are at low gain on speaker, requiring larger input) and then you have to turn the volume up to loud to get them to turn on again. Not much fun.
From memory one speaker pulls about 30-35 watts at the plug at idle.
Ugh, that sucks. Is the volume knob on your speaker all the way up or back at unity (which looks to be at the 12:00 position)?In theory, yes, but in practise the speakers will shut off at normal, but low level volumes (even when amps are at low gain on speaker, requiring larger input) and then you have to turn the volume up to loud to get them to turn on again. Not much fun.
Not at all, the imaging on my 1032’s is exceptional. As good as any speaker I’ve owned and better than the majority.Yeah that's definitely not enough to push our bill this high. Hope we don't have a rouge appliance.
I didn't end up doing the test blind but I came to same conclusions on just about every song, and the most common complaint is that the behringers have no center image. I don't know why, but I had this problem on all the waveguided speakers I've tried, it's just not there? No matter the placement or EQ it just doesn't happen. Anyone else notice this on waveguided stuff?
Not at all, the imaging on my 1032’s is exceptional. As good as any speaker I’ve owned and better than the majority.
I think the idea that people cannot understand their own bias and account for it is pretty ridiculous.
What’s your set up look like? How are you connecting the monitors? Have you made sure they’re level-matched?I'm curious how they're setup, the toe in mostly. I haven't been able to get a defined center with any speaker I have with waveguides, 8030c and kh80 were frustratingly the same, so I'm gonna try this extreme toe in to see if helps. I have some atc SCM12 passives that have a very defined center. I think I actually might prefer speakers that narrow as they go up in freq, it makes more sense to my brain I guess.
I've also noticed the waveguide-less stuff I have gives me the impression of a wider sound stage. Sometimes I'll get little phantom noises where it sounds like there's a speaker somewhere else in the room. It makes me inner Keanu Reeves go "whoa".
What’s your set up look like? How are you connecting the monitors? Have you made sure they’re level-matched?