Review: Behringer Truth 4.5 BT, speaker monitor with Bluetooth

Behringer Truth 4.5 BT, speaker monitor with Bluetooth

The Behringer Truth 4.5 BT is an active speaker for the home studio. There are so many other Firma messages that are sent so often by Behringer, that the output of the Firma is enormous. Darunter had started in the last few years a few years ago with a few tests of Behringer Studio Monitors (Media 40 USB and Studio 50 USB), two Multimedia Monitors. The Behringer Truth 4.5 BT falls in this direction, we could start with the “perfect sound upgrade for your Studio, Multimedia and Gaming support” described. An apparently all-rounder too. Under the name “Truth” there is talk of a clarification. Then the Truth is mold on the ground. And so the story continues with their names being spoken (oberste Journalist Rule: “No jokes with names and disabilities”).

Die Technik der Behringer Waarheid 4.5 BT

The Behringer Truth 4.5 BT is an active studio monitor with class D amplifier core and a power of 2x 32 W, fitted with a 4.5 inch deep tube (114 mm, LF tube) and a 1 inch high tube (25.4 mm, silk cap). One monitor functions as an active master with the connections and controls, and is passive as a slave.

The frequency range of 60 Hz to 20 kHz (Crossover frequency at 2.8 kHz), the limit value (maximum SPL) is achieved by Behringer with 99 dB. Whoever says the name, can play the monitor with music via Bluetooth. If Bluetooth 5.3 goes to the truth, the Truth 4.5 BT also comes to the state of the art (the versions of the BT version 5.4 are now relevant for the profession). For the transition of the sounds, a high and a low rule, jewelry with a range of -6 dB to +6 dB.

The Behringer Truth Family

The Truth-Monitor is available in the Ausführungen Truth 3.5 and Truth 4.5, wireless with Bluetooth (then with the connected BT in the name) or ohne. The prices vary between the two variants, which are fully Euro (pro Stück) for both Version 4.5 and 20,- Euro for both Version 3.5. Insofern will not make the existence of the Bluetooth-loose monitor so simple. Schon wesentlich älter, aber teilweise immer noch in Handel erhältlich, since die Behringer Truth B2030A (aus dem Jahr 2004). I was tested on AMAZONA.de on the next page in 2010, the Behringer Truth B3030A. At Behringer, all truth models with the 3.5 and 4.5 are said to have been developed under the brand “Legacy Product”, also called “Ex-product”.

Der Lieferumfang der Behringer Waarheid 4.5 BT

The card in the typical Behringer design (white, orange-colored border, product photo and name) is light and compact. Both monitors were secured by the fact that Styrofoam was used, that is a mixed cable: a power cable with Euro plug, approx. 1.7 m long, a connection cable Master-Slave Box (with empty wires, approx. 2 m) as well as two audio connection cables (stereo minilink to 2x cinch and stereo minilink to stereo minilink). If we are small and wiederhole mich, it is so that you have connected the 10 cm cable with a kink, because the largest manufacturer (an exception for the sake of argument is the Red) does not have to roll up the cable. If you look in the studio, you can buy some of it and produce it in extreme cases. Ebenfalls mit dabei: eight heavy-duty small files and a multi-beautiful printed manual in DIN A4 format.

Design, Verarbeitung und Anschlüsse der Lautsprecher

With a weight of 2.8 (active) or 2.2 kg (passive) the Truth 4.5 BT also weighs 5 kg, the pair also brings 5 ​​kg. With the image of 241 x 163 x 204 mm you will find the truth for both truth, nor an irrendwo in Plätzchen on the table. If you want to make a good design, you can not make other designs. The chassis with the shortened side is best – who is best – with a matt black, vinyl-coated MDF (mid-density wood fiber plate) in 12 mm thick.

The front of the day has become better from plastic, but the results are shorter and more matt black. Was deutlich better gefällt als der Klavierlack at the Behringer Studio 50, der Fingerabdrücke anzieht. Der Tieftöner with its silver glass fiber web focuses on the black Einheitskost that is made on the small Tweeter – eingefast in an elliptical representation – lieber schwarz trägt. There are still more Farbtupfers that have links in a small part of the truth statement, weiter a right this name Behringer. The quality of the quality is complete, the Abschluss of the Front-plastic blende is an irregular and smaller grid, man never intended, but he would not taste more.

If you use the Power Button on the volume control on the front of the Master Monitors, this is a fact that the self-esteem of all studio monitors works. At my JBL for the sake of argument (all controls and connections on the back) changes in the settings occur every time, but some artistic changes and furniture backs. The volume control is active Truth 4.5 BT is now 5 mm out of the device and it is so that it happens so often that it does not go through.

If you find a mini-coupler on the Aux-input (to direct audio signals), you can use MP3 or CD players – those cable formats are not suitable – and also smartphones are longer and more legitimate. If it is good, it is a brauchen. A headphone jack is made (ebenfalls Miniklinke, TRS).

In the background of active monitors you will find the devices for the power supply, wahlweise cinch (unsymmetrical) or click (symmetrical), the clamping bushes for the connection cable for slave unit, two settings with center grid (high and low, jewels from -6 dB to +6 dB) for easy tuning, the pairing button for Bluetooth and the connection for the power cable. The circular bass reflex port (diameter 33 mm) that drops down after a hint, was during the installation of the monitors in wall proximity berücksichtigt werden muss.

By the passive monitor that fully connects to the connection cable, all settings and probes also apply to the master. An XLR connection – as the operating system of the Behringer Studio 50USB is, is a multimedia monitor – a real leader. A cost can not lie, the Studio 50USB costs with 148, – Euro for a pair that cost half. If it is good, the multimedia and gaming activities that are, but rarely useful.

Who blades that Behringer Truth 4.5 BT?

For the setup Behringer recommends in the manual a distance of 0.75 to 3 m. If you hinder the monitor and keep an eye on the left and right of the Hörposition are displayed, you can find the high tone and find it. The master is placed on the coupled position, the slave on the straight line. Everything is for the following Soundtest of course intended. The connections are intended to use a Mackie mixer with click cables (also symmetrical) as a Cinch. Sounds like there is no difference.

Was the first image of the world so clear, it is a fine-gelöste, a knitted and transparent stereo image, that those small monitors are not so good. And that is only the beginning of a small Sweetspot feast. It is a wonderful beautiful “Mittendrin in der Musik”-feeling, as long as the monitors do not stand 1 meter below the rhombs, then the stereo image naturally loses itself grimly.

Bruno Mars, „Locked out from Heaven“: The Bass has made a great and complete choice in the design of the bass controls, which quickly became a little zu fell – and arranged a little runter, so it sounds better. If the mitten and cover of the song are not glücklich. The mittens have a little extra sparkle, the height is an incentive to shrill. Okay, can a song lie, Valleicht mal was Ruhigeres? Also Flora Martinez, “Blue Moon”, a relaxing Jazz song in smaller Besetzung. Here comes the zupfte Bass wesentlich these rüber and image of the suitable foundation for piano and guitar, which extends beyond the frequency of gemütlich machen, with Floras Stimme angenehm über allem schwebt.

Holen will contain a few more Leute mehr auf die Bühne: Earth, Wind & Fire, of course with “September”. The Bass-Drum is played by the Beat before the Bläsersatz has a small problem with the height and the funky guitar no longer plays and the Falsett chants do not play here in Schrille ab. Lediglich in der Mitte is auch hier en wieder kurz ein wenig gedrängt, was zur Lasten der Transparenz geht, aber “det versendet sich” (Lieblingspruch eines Tontechniker-Collegen damals beim SFB), also nur bei genauerem Hinhören auf. If you see a stereo image here, keep it in mind.

Zum Schluss nor my Lieblings heart test: the “Main Titles” with Vangelis “Blade Runner”. It is a great bass-whiter, flashing synthesizer sound and streicher in sharp high and wide flächen in the mitten – it can be a black monitor that could be an ungenßbaren sound knit, aber the Truth 4.5 BT is aimed straight at the Griff. Both of which Klangdrehregler (High and Low) could be right in the context of their history. If the base grundsätzlich is a little softened, it has become a lot longer. A – I really appreciate the beautiful stereo image (that is completely covered by the slow motion here)?

The connection via Bluetooth is fast and hassle-free: BT sync button press, the – orange color – power light on the front flashes blue, “Truth 4.5” is in the scanning of smartphones and the safe way. Was the Truth 4.5 BT by the permanently blue-lighted LED display.

If the head function is performed best, the monitor is automatically switched on. The volume control for the headphone is based on the loudness control of the monitors. It is a fact that the Truth 4.5 BT is set for a low-ohm headphone. If the other AKG K-501 with 120 Ohm is lifted correctly, when the drum falls away, the Rode NTH-100 with 32 ​​Ohm is launched at a lower level. With a Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro with 250 Ohm, the air (i.e. the sound) can also be used. The headphone in the anvisiertenziel group will nevertheless take the trouble to continue.

Alternative to the Behringer Truth 4.5 Speakers

The Behringer Truth 4.5 BT costs 149,- Euro. It is a fact that there is a small chance of the Beispiel Presonus Eris 5BT 2nd generation (2x 50 Watt, 5.25 Zoll Tieftöner, ebenfalls Höhen- and Bassreguler and Bluetooth, 233,- Euro/Pair), or other Vorgänger, which Presonus Eris 4.5 BTin our test, abgeschnitten hatten, aber etwas teurer as die “Multimedia-Referenz” M-Audio BX4BT (2x 25 W, 4.5 Zoll Tieftöner, Bluetooth, 129,- Euro/Pair)