You will hear things in your mix never noticed before, flaws/static/rf interference. Enhanced clarity and precision have helped me to improve my system performance and sharpened my mixing skills. Bass response could be better but would likely compromise the speaker design if bass freq response was decreased (>50hz), Sub use is essential for lower frequencies. Built in room compensation EQ to customize to room. acoustics.

1/4" TRS, balanced XLR outs on board room compensation EQ

room set up w/ room compensation EQ.

Behringer had bad rap mostly for mixer components, reliability. These monitors have excellent engineering, components, material and manufacturing precision and quality. They compared very well to systems twice as much or more than I paid for them. No problems with over a year of regular use.

N/A Behringer provided excellent documentation with product including individual matched pair speaker frequency response charts from a test diagram.

modern attractive design, great lines/finish.

DJ/remix/sound reinforcement

Jazz, House

Sound has been amazing. I have several friends that have heard these speakers and they all said they sound amazing. Very crisp crystal clear mids and highs, bass is great with nice smooth tones. I run them about 3/4 of the power and in a large 25x20 room they blast it no problems and thats not even turned up from the mixer side of it. I usually run about -4 so they have plenty of power. I use these mostly for my Keyboard setup and vocals and either or combined sound excellent. Highly recommend these. I stopped up to Sam Ash and also Guitar Center to listen to all their studio speakers. I took my Behringer's with me to compare and the guys all agreed they thought sounded the best overall, especially considering the money. I can't say more about hem other than you're not wasting your money at all. Well worth it. I'm using these plugged into a Behringer X1204USB and all in all, love the setup.

There are adjustable settings on the back to give you a little tweaking on crossovers of the mids'highs'bass basically but you don't need to bother with them. Unless you have amazing hearing, you aren't going to notice the changes at all. The Gain button could be a little bigger but then again, its not like you are ever going to adjust it once you have your mixer tuned in correctly. Power button is located in a great spot, right on top and it makes it convenient to use.

Right out of the box, hookup, plug in and you're good to go. Honestly, these blew my mind. I was so iffy on all the other speakers and I was just about to bite the bullet and buy the Bose L1 system and I'm glad I saved my money and bought these instead. Plenty of great sound to be had and for a price I feel is right.

Very sturdy speaker. Has great weight to it, nice cabinet design. Ribbon tweeters look like a studio option and I could tell a difference between the quality of the highs and mids because of it.

zZounds made it a no brainer for me to purchase as I took advantage of their 4 easy payments. I will mention however, I was under the impression I would not see an credit report hits on my record using the zZounds but don't be fooled. It will show on your credit report unfortunately but it did allow me to free up some of my cash for other things right away so its a nice service. I would rather have an ongoing account limit though after it's all paid off so you do not have to hit your credit with a hard inquiry again. Don't settle for the 2021 version, definitely worth the extra $100 to get the B3031A series, huge step up in mid-high qualities and I notice it with my keyboard playing. It's like getting speakers worth twice what these cost as an upgrade. SO

I haven't had to use them but I have used Behringer support in the past and they were always great. I don't anticipate any issues with this speaker as its built very well.

I personally would only change the color of the power light. Instead of the standard little mini round led, maybe a light blue light instead to just go with todays trends. Looks cooler. So if all i can change is the light, the design is great. =)

15 years Hobbyist on Keyboard and Vocals

R&B, Soul, Country, Jazz, HipHop

Any review of how a speaker "SOUNDS" is purely subjective to the reviewer. If at all possible, the best thing to do is to listen for yourself with source material you are familiar with. To wit: These speakers were purchased mainly for use with my Tyros 2 workstation. Reviews of the various sub woofer/ small satellite speaker systems for this type of application left me a bit cold. I really wanted something better than overpriced and under powered boom-box speakers for a stand alone speaker system. Reviews of earlier Behringer studio monitors suggested that for the money I should really try the B3031As. I compared the Behringer B3031A speakers side by side with the original version Mackie HR824. Once adjusted to a similar gain and low and high end settings I listened to various selections of classical music. (i.e. Spartacus Suite No.2 "Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia" will give most any system a work out!) It's not how loud ya make it, it how ya make it loud...! The B3031A speakers appear to be a quasi rip-off of the HR824 design, (even down to how the sheet metal covering on the back is punched out and bent and the placement of the toroid power transformer and so on). The B3031A speakers are represented as being reasonably flat, however, to me the speakers have a bit more tone coloring in the mid-mid range and somewhat in the upper registers when going through transitional frequency sweeps (very Legato arpeggios). The high end, via the ribbon tweeter is crisp but then again I noticed subtle differences between this type tweeter and the dome tweeter in the Mackies. The high end sound focus is fairly broad so placing yourself in exactly the right position to hear the "sweet spot" is not necessary. While these speakers aren't exactly Hr824 clones they do sound very good by themselves. Plenty of *clean* bass and lots of undistorted volume. These speakers are superior to many I have listened to in the same price range.

For this type of powered monitor there are adjustments on the back to get a customized sound for placement and drive level. Don't know that there is too much more to be done to the speaker itself, it's more a matter of getting the room acoustics cleaned up.

Plug it in and turn it on. Apply audio and adjust to suit needs. Forget it is there. Couldn't be easier.

The B3031A appears to be built as well as the Mackie speakers... only other option would have been to make the case out of steel.... These speakers are heavy and reasonably rugged. They are mainly for studio use and might not do well on the road (as with any studio monitor!)

My opinion is that these speakers are worth the money that most retailers are charging but not the "suggested retail". ($500 for a pair or less is reasonable). They may not be the ultimate speaker but then again I didn't want to mortgage the house to buy a good monitor setup for my keyboards..

Haven't needed it yet.

"How would you rate the "sex appeal" of this product?" Sex appeal? These are black boxes that sit up on a shelf. Might have sex appeal to the Goth in us... Basically studio speakers are something that is relatively transparent and don't really get that much notice unless they sound bad.

Active Musician and recording engineer.

Bach to Techno

I like the punchy and crispy sound that comes out of them and the bass is clear not to mutch rumble. I just lower the high to -2 dB and just kept the rest of the settings to normal. My room is not proffesional but the sound is good. Before i had a lot of bass rumble but my old speakers were not professional studio speakers so i cant compare them to other active studio monitors.

Room settings are handy.

Still hear a bit of noise when there is no sound comming thru them, but i don't have a good eath cable on my 220v power wall box. And there are three computer monitors standing around them.

Strong aluminium case, ink ribbon tweeter is well protected.

good for the money i spent.

not needed yet. Just plug and play.

They look stong and the design is ok to me.

Hobbyist producer and dj.

Minimal techno, Rock, Dance, House, Lounge, Hip hop, Trance, Reggea

Muffled, grainy.

Ok features.

the monitors are easy enough to use. They just do not sound clear

The speakers appeared to be reasonably well made.

How can a monitor be a good value if it does not give a clear picture of the music?

I did not have to deal with Behringer directly. My contact with zZounds on the other hand, was stellar.

Sorry, no, I don't want it!

38 years! Guitar, Keyboards, semi-pro!

rock, indie

They sound really good, but I'm not enough of an authority to say they sound accurate. Either way, they do well at low and high volumes and theres no hissing or noise coming from the amps as far as I can tell.

Your not going to find ribbon tweeters on anything at even double this price, that's pretty impressive. You also have the typical room correction switches.

They're monitor's, plug them in, turn up the volume.

This is always the question with Behringer products, I had a little funkiness with one of the speakers but it seems to have worked itself out, for now. Also, the power cable sockets seem a tad touchy. So far so good though.

No question, 8" powered monitors, with ribbon tweeters for this price is pretty unheard of.

Haven't needed anything yet, but product registration was a synch

All comes back to the ribbon tweeters, Adam's are like $700 a piece so the me too factor in pretty large.