Tweeter Problem - any suggestions?

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I recently bought Behringer Truth B2031s for my studio. They seemed to be working fine but I always felt there was something slightly wrong, like they were not quite the same. Got an engineer friend of mine to call over and help me configure them to the room acoustics. If any of you are familiar with the speakers, there are a couple of switches on the back that can be changed.

Low Frequency was set to –6dB
Room Compensation was set to –6dB
High Frequency was set to –4dB

We noticed the problem pretty straight away after that. The tweeter on the left speaker seems to be out putting at about half the volume of the other speakers tweeter.

Theres also a switch that allows you to turn off the bass and just listen to the tweeter. I did this and found no crackling, just low volume, in comparsion to the other speaker.

When I listened to the speaker on its own, I noticed that the top and bass seem out of proportion to each other. Never spotted it before, probably because I always listened to both together and the setting on the back didnt suit the room.

I've contacted Thomann in Germany, who I bought them from but I'd love to hear your feedback on this.

Thanks.

Mari
 
I sure hope you applied the same setting to both speakers :)

In that case it could just be room modes acting upon the high frequencies if your room is not symmetrical. My right speaker does have noticably different characteristics compared to the left one, but it's too small to make a fuss over.
 
Yeah, I definately applied the same setting to both. The room is rectangular in shape and the speakers are placed at one of the narrow ends. They should behave almost the same.

There shouldn't be such a noticable difference though. I mean this is huge differece, the top end is way way lower than the bass. I dunno... No reply yet from Thomann but I guess today is Saturday so I'll have to hang on 'til Monday.
 
Yea, waiting sucks, I also have to wait till Monday to get some questions answered :)

Did you try playing different stuff on them? Could just be a stereo effect. Best bet is to mono downmix if you can and then listen to each individually.
 
Yeah, tried listening to different stuff, its pretty much the same in all cases. I can deal with the problem temporarily if I sit a bit closer to the right speaker than the left. Luckily I'm not doing any serious mixing over the next few days.

Thanks for the suggestion by the way. I'll try it. Might give me a bit more insight. I still reckon its a fault with the speaker though. I hope I dont have to sent it all the way back to Germany to be fixed. That'd be a real pain in the ass. I'd probably be out of business for a few weeks and I'm only getting started!

The joys of it!

Cheers!
 
Well that does suck, seems like it's the speaker. As a last resort you can check if it could be your preamp.

You're an unlucky one, it's not common for a brand new monitor to come in faulty.
 
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