Inside the Behringer MS20 20 watt stereo near field monitor: reviewed and dismantled

Posted on February 11, 2008 by ZOG

I have had a pair of Behringer MS20 monitors speakers. I’ve had them for a about 6 months or so. They have a fairly thin, but detailed sound for the price point. One thing with them is a good mix sounds VERY good, while a bad mix, or a badly encoded mp3, sounds woeful. I would ot call them mega accurate, but they do seem to show up bad mixes very well.

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Note that I dont use these for writing music on, mainly just general music listening.. in fact more as a high end set of 2:1 PC speakers than anything, which they are great for.

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ART SLA1 pictures

Posted on October 29, 2007 by colren

Another peek inside a favorite amp

The ART SLA1 I use this to drive my horns in minirig V6

Arcam A65+ Innards

Posted on October 29, 2007 by colren

Had this amp for around 4 years now and I am still amazed by how nice it sounds, think it might be getting better with age.

TX105 stereo input switcher from Jaycar

Posted on October 28, 2007 by ZOG

Well here is the guts of a TX105 model RCA stereo input switcher from Jaycar.. minimal “audiophile” pre-amp goodness (and shag pile carpet) at it’s cheapest:

Though not on the Jaycar web site any more they still appear to be in stock in the shops – the manufucturer Parada Company of Hong Kong also has a page on them.

Inside the Behringer UCA-202 USB sound card

Posted on October 28, 2007 by ZOG

Well, in a previous blog post on the ZOG blog I noted the Behringer UCA-202 USB sound card works fine with Linux and has quite good sound for the price point. After using it for a while quite happily, I got curious and opened it up to see what is inside. Essentially, not a lot but you can see the guts of the system is pretty much the Burr Brown PCM2902E chip.

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