Behringer CT200 Reviews

Excellent Testing Unit

It's been a long while since I bought this and it's still going substantially strong as our studio's go-to cable tester. The cross functionality of testing, for instance jack to xlr cables comes in handy. The manual is very straight forward. Overall if I ever need to replace this unit I would be looking at getting this identical one again, or if an upgraded version is our there I'd consider that.

TS-plug testing doesn't work.

Funnily enought, testing of 1/4" TS-plug cables seem to be not supported. Shows up "1+3 shorted". Disappointed.

Works fine

The tester works fine, the only issue is that it cannot recognise balanced vs unbalanced jack cables, and the tester tells you the cable is not good when you just connect a normal instrument cable, as it thinks the slave is touching the ring, but there is no ring, only tip and slave... Bu knowing that you can test that the tip does not bridge with the other.

Good product for reasonable money!

Good product. If you need a fast cable tester and you are not an electrician :) it will be the right choice. A lot of connector options have been thought out, which are used in connection with music. If you want to go deeper, there are also advanced options, call lines, phantom testing, etc.

In short, a good helper for quick cable testing, which does not take up much space, so you can always have it with you on the job. Purchase recommendation.

ok

Very good quality, perfect for the price, unfortunately it is not possible to test 6.35mm TS jack like in guitar cable, only TRS.

Tested all my cables for a new studio move

Device worked really well for weeding out those intermittent cables that sometimes work and sometimes don't. XLRs, balanced jacks, guitar cables, USB A to B... even mini jack leads! Worth every penny to have that confidence when you take them all out for a job.

TS cable seen as shorted by default

I would easily give this product 5 stars but there's a built-in manufacturing issue that is baffling. If you test a TS 1/4" cable (i.e. an unbalanced instrument cable) it will show it as shorted because the 1/4" in/out expects a TRS (balanced) cable. This seems like a super-easy hardware fix with a simple selector on the unit. The documentation bldly claims the unit supports TS cables(!) which is technically true as long as you Pavlov yourself into accepting your perfectly good cables been shown as faulty. If you ask me, I find this tough to swallow, especially when 90% of the cables I bought it to test are 1/4" TS ones.

Solid construction, business like - but not for me

A very good selection of connector types (although a few more USB connector variants would be good) in a solidly built, professional looking box.

I found it somewhat annoying that the 1/4" jacks are wired so that only stereo jacks get the 'Green' OK light. Mono jack cables display as some sort of fault - because the tester reads the ring and the sleeve as shorted. That notwithstanding, it is a handy and very reasonably priced addition to any band tool kit

Behringer finally did something right

Alot of features, and easy to use

A must tool

Great unit to have in your tool box

Very solid and functional

I'm happy with the build quality but the operation is very basic but does the job. I like the intermittent feature and the installed cable function would works pretty well. It is a good thing to have on the road and at this price point the features are very good. If you want more you have to pay more. I recommend this tester, any keyboard live rig would benefit for having this in the road case.

Quite good for the price and does the job!

Useful and does the job, I use it in the recording studio where hundreds of cables are used and we make our own high quality cables that need testing. Obviously there are more expensive and more complex testers on the market but I do not feel it's worth spending more money when CT200 works just fine. Highly recommended. Cheers!

Very easy to use

Does the job that it's meant for.

Really reliable and accurate product

Extremely pleased.

My first cable tester, I use it at church. No-nonsense cable tester. Very easy to use and testing existing cables is a breeze. Multiple jack types for all common cable types: XLR, 1/4" jacks, 1/8" jacks, USB, MIDI, RCA, Ethernet, speaker. "Intermitent" test for cables (testing of temporary disconnection) is gold. Extremely happy with purchase.

Vyacheslav Fx Events

Cool tester helps a lot in work.

Decent, but not great

Addition of Speakon is a nice touch, as are USB and RJ45, but this is not as robust and intuitive as the CT100.

Can be touchy about which batteries are used, some I tried have caused screen to not function.

good product

Very good product, especially for the prise. Checking TR plugs is a bit tricky. 3/1 fault should be read as 'pass' , not mentioned in the manual.

Great piece of kit

I piggy back a mixer with me edrum kit with CT200 I can set up very quickly and test using the phantom power. Test cables that brake down great quality 10/10

Fine item!

This cable tester works fine, we use for professional purpouses (we're an audio service hiring company) and we are full satisfied. It's an affordable tool for cheap price... some times it happens!

A definite upgrade from the CT100.

I've used the CT100 for years, both as a very solid cable tester and as a great mount for soldering cables on-the-fly. The CT200 is built to the same indestructible specification and shares lots of the same features, but adds USB, Speakon and Cat5 to that.

The additional functionality means the original idiot-proof 3x3 LED matrix is no longer used, instead using a numerical display and coloured LEDs to describe connected/crossed/open cables.

This makes it a little less intuitive to use, and although it's great for confirming standard cable connections, it displays correctly connected unbalanced jack-jack cables as 'crossed' which is a bit annoying. However the additional cable types available for testing are great, and the further functionality in terms of crossed/open/shorted/phantom on individual LEDs is really useful.

Overall well worth the small additional cost over the CT100.