Behringer B2031A, TRUTHB2030A manual Foreword, Table of Contents, Introduction

TRUTH B2030A/B2031A

FOREWORD

Dear Customer,

welcome to the team of BEHRINGER users, and thank you very much for expressing your confidence in us by purchasing this studio monitor.

Writing this foreword for you gives me great pleasure, because it represents the cul- mination of many months of hard work delivered by our engineering team to achieve a very ambitious goal: to present two outstanding nearfield monitors, whose neutral sound

makes them ideal for studio use. The task of designing our new B2030A and B2031A certainly meant a great deal of responsibility, which we assumed by focusing on you, the discerning user and musician. Meeting your expectations also meant a lot of work and night shifts. But it was fun, too. Developing a product usually brings a lot of people together, and what a great feeling it is when all who participated in such a project can be proud of what they’ve achieved.

It is our philosophy to share our enjoyment with you, because you are the most important member of the BEHRINGER team. With your highly competent suggestions for new products you’ve made a significant contribution to shaping our company and making it successful. In return, we guarantee you uncompromising quality as well as excellent technical and audio properties at an extremely reasonable price. All of this will enable you to give free rein to your creativity without being hampered by budget constraints.

We are often asked how we manage to produce such high- quality devices at such unbelievably low prices. The answer is quite simple: it’s you, our customers! Many satisfied customers mean large sales volumes enabling us to get better purchasing terms for components, etc. Isn’t it only fair to pass this benefit on to you? Because we know that your success is our success too!

I would like to thank all of you who have made the TRUTH possible. You have all made your own personal contributions, from the developers to the many other employees at this company, and to you, the BEHRINGER user.

My friends, it’s been worth the effort!

Thank you very much,

Uli Behringer

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION			4
1.1	Before you get started		5
	1.1.1	Shipment	5
	1.1.2	Initial operation	5
	1.1.3	Warranty	5
2. CONTROL ELEMENTS			5
3. APPLICATIONS			6
3.1	Connection		6
3.2	Level setting		6
3.3	Speaker placement suggestions		7
3.4	Adapting the TRUTH to the room acoustics		7
4. INSTALLATION			8
5. SPECIFICATIONS			8
6. WARRANTY			9

1. INTRODUCTION

Congratulations! With our new BEHRINGER TRUTH you have purchased one of the best high-resolution active studio monitors available. It is a tool that reproduces your program material with highest fidelity and balance, positioning sound sources accurately on the stereo basis.

The TRUTH features two separate amplifiers for bass and high frequencies, sporting loads of power reserve. On the bass end, a long-excursion woofer embedded in a sturdy cast- aluminum casing springs into action. The scope is broadened downward by using a special bass reflex system. In the upper frequency range, a specially developed dome tweeter provides for subtle signal reproduction. The chassis and the amplifiers are protected from overload using a sophisticated circuitry. The speakers are magnetically shielded, so you can use your TRUTH near computer monitors or TV sets. The audio signal is separated using an active crossover that guarantees accurate frequency separation and perfect tuning of both speakers among each other.

We recommend that you experiment with your TRUTH away from the pressures of a recording session, in order to get a feel for it. It will be a good idea to listen to your favorite CD’s over the TRUTH, so that you can get an impression of the neutral sound this speaker produces—which might be somewhat unusual at first!

+The following user’s manual is intended to familiarize you with the unit’s control elements, so that you can master all the functions. After having thoroughly read the user’s manual, store it at a safe place for future reference.

ATTENTION!

+The TRUTH is capable of producing extreme volumes. Please bear in mind, that high sound pressures do not only temporarily damage your sense of hearing, but can also cause permanent damage. Be careful to select a suitable volume.

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