Behringer MS16 High-Performance, Active 16 Watt Personal Monitor System

I ordered these for delivery to Finland, they arrived quickly and well packaged.Firstly if you are expecting Pro Studio Monitors for this price you will be setting yourself up for disappointment. These are not Pro Studio quality but also they are not Studio price and for the price you are paying i believe they justify a 5* rating.Good points: The sound quality is good in general and they go very loud without much distortion. The build quality is solid (plastic) and they look professional. They have a mic input as well as audio inputs and equalizer.Bad points: Bass Response is limited, the equalizer isn't very fussy (hence why these are not ideal Studio Monitors)Student on a budget? These are a good buy. Small home studio set up? Good buy. Speakers for your PC / DVD / Console? Good buy. Backup set of speakers for dragging around to friends, gigs etc. Good buy.In fact if you compare these to similarly priced (and even much more expensive) amplified PC speakers, these really blow them out the water.Basically for the price these are excellent, maybe Behringer shouldn't have called them Monitors as this creates false expectations. However if you are in the market for amplified speakers and this is at the top end of your budget I don't think you will find anything better even if you stretch it slightly.

Simple utilitarian design. These are basically sturdy plastic boxes with moderately good drivers in them. You get a good stereo image out of the tweeters, not so sure about the midrange or bass. It's there I guess.They fit the 'PC aesthetic' and work fine for streaming music, tv, etc. They have a completely useless microphone input that would allow these to function like a karaoke system, but why? The gain is massive to allow it to be used with any crap quality microphone. Of course it sounds like garbage.The tone controls are genuinely useful for taking the harshness off, say, wind noise on a youtube video shot outdoors. Maybe they even sound musical I don't know. All the controls feel sturdy and have chunky plastic grips.I wouldn't use these for creating music, gotta get something better.It's a good sturdy product but when I got them they cost 40% less than £85 at date of review. Not even sure if I can call these value for money now.We've had ours for three years and no problems, so there's that I guess.

I needed a pair of medium-sized powered speakers that could monitor the output of a Blackmagic Design Intensity Shuttle Analogue-to-Digital Video and Audio interface in a video capture and conversion system. The usual PC speakers are no good for this job, but spending many hundreds of pounds on studio monitor speakers was neither totally necessary nor financially viable. We needed a modestly-priced pair of powered speakers that gave us a good representation of mixed audio and that's what we were being offered. The Behringer MS16 had received good reviews on the professional audio websites and seemed a great alternative - and at the price offered, which included despatch costs, we were presented with an offer we couldn't refuse.The product arrived in very fast time (faster than the estimate given at the time of purchase) and were well packaged. Once installed, they were quickly put to work monitoring the sound balance coming from 20-year-old analogue videotapes via a Soundcraft mixer desk into an Apple Mac system. The speakers are actually larger than we expected them to me (no, we didn't check the measurements in the product description!) butit doesn't matter because they sit on the console very well and look as good as they sound. The quality is great for the price; top end is crisp, bottom is punchy and altogether they provide us with a faithful reproduction - especially when the level is wound up a bit!The right speaker contains the controls and the main inputs (at the rear) which then feeds the left speaker acting as slave. We'd have liked XLR balanced inputs on the back but, of course, this facility comes with a greater price tag. On that basis the RCA Phono pair and also Stereo 3.5mm Mini-jack inputs are perfectly adequate. It should be noted that the two separate inputs can be mixed, together with the front-panel 1/4" mic jack input (which we don't really need actually).All in all, a very good product at what was, for us, an exceptionally good delivery-inclusive price. Can't complain at all - so we won't!

Ok I'm setting out to be very fair with this review. The radio station I work for has a couple of sets of these so I knew what I was getting before I ordered them.Firstly the good:The speakers (because that is what they are) are powered and are absolutely perfect as computer speakers or for connecting to a mobile phone, for use as AirPlay or similar via a receiver. They are reasonably priced and offer sound comparable to JBL Control One speakers without the outlay of an amp.The bad:The sounds quality is not of monitor standard, so the name is misleading. However the sound quality is not bad, frankly you are getting what you pay for. The bass response of these speakers is adjustable officially by the bass knob. What you are actually getting is an adjustment of the low end of the midrange as the actual bass response is quite poor.Lastly and most importantly, the RF shielding is shocking. Believe me you will know when your mobile phone is anywhere near these.I paid £45 for these as an Amazon Warehouse item and I am happy enough, despite the shortcomings.Mine are wall mounted using a pair of £15 brackets from Maplin which do well enough. Side clamp speaker brackets may not be suitable because of the curve of the lower portion of the speakers.