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Behringer MS-20 SPDIF Input

I happen to own a pair of Behringer MS-20 loudspeakers. They have a built in DAC and can accept optical and electrical SPDIF input. But the digital input does not work properly @ 44100 Hz. At low signal levels it will produce clicking noise as if it lost the SPDIF signal briefly. It could be a problem with the order of some least-significant bits, but I'm just speculating. The funny thing is that at other rates both coax and opt work properly.

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Interesting. We do not have any MS-20s but I have just had a quick play with a pair of MS-40s which I presume are going to be similar but with bigger drive units and power amplifiers. I only used an analogue input and so cannot comment on the digital input. Perhaps after the weekend.

Did you test the digital input of your speakers?

Behringer MS-20 SPDIF Input

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Off topic... what do you think of the MS-20's?  I have the MS-16's and am still not sure how I feel about them but thought about experimenting with the 40's.
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Behringer MS-20 SPDIF Input

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I'm not really qualified to answer about the quality of these speakers (and might be biased too because a couple of things broken in this pair). I bought them only because of the headphone socket.

Behringer MS-20 SPDIF Input

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Quote from: j7n on
I happen to own a pair of Behringer MS-20 loudspeakers. They have a built in DAC and can accept optical and electrical SPDIF input. But the digital input does not work properly @ 44100 Hz. At low signal levels it will produce clicking noise as if it lost the SPDIF signal briefly. It could be a problem with the order of some least-significant bits, but I'm just speculating. The funny thing is that at other rates both coax and opt work properly.

Did you test the digital input of your speakers?

I had a quick check at 44.1kHz with a coaxial cable from a CD player and it seemed fine. I had intended to use a computer to check other sampling rates and monitor things with a bit more confidence but something was amiss (at the computer end) and I did not have the time to sort it. I am afraid I will not have another go.

Behringer MS-20 SPDIF Input

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Quote from: dreamliner77 on
Off topic... what do you think of the MS-20's?  I have the MS-16's and am still not sure how I feel about them but thought about experimenting with the 40's.

I have a small familiarity with the MS-40s and I would judge the sound quality as good for computer speakers. I can listen to music on them which is more than I can say for most computer speakers which I find intrusive. They are not really suitable for monitoring music but for GBP 85 I think this would be an unreasonable expectation.

Behringer MS-20 SPDIF Input

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Thank you.