The T20 II speakers sound small multimedia speaker quite useful - quite crisp, clean highs and the bass reflex system even audible Basse, although somewhat washed out and sound boomy and not hide the fact that it is small Pastikboxen with mini speakers, but still. Completely incomprehensible and sinnfrei however seems to me the "feature" of the automatic shutdown if a few minutes with no input signal, since the boxes need about 5 seconds, until they again give to an incoming audio pulse something of himself. This is unacceptable and disqualified them for all sorts of applications. At the computer beeps will not play, and in the studio as a multimedia reference it makes no sense when the speaker repeatedly insert 5 sec pause. Confusingly, this appears to "function" to have been implemented throughout. I have 2 pairs of T20 II and a pair of T40 II, which the T40 and one of the two T20 couples have exactly this problem condition - the other T20 always play and are not interested in signal pauses. Both T20 pairs have identical serial numbers and see 1: 1 the same, so is not to close from outside it. Maybe I take the opportunity and see once the assembly of the two boards, perhaps I can make the responsible components and with a simple modification to the whole an end. Nevertheless, it remains an idiotic measure, and if Creative appeals to any EU directives (such statements I have repeatedly found on the subject) does that sound for me actually ludicrous only. I have certainly not had otherwise no other active speaker system in the ears, which repeatedly even lulling around then slowly wake up. Really a shame because the acoustic Creative boxes are perfectly acceptable - but maybe I get it so with patience and soldering iron out that I can use them as normal without me ever having to fret about art breaks.
edit: problem solved, there is on the board of the box a soldering point (labeled V-AUTO, identical with T20 and T40), from here a 10k resistor for almost directly located next to + 16V point (not labeled as a precaution measure) solder and so the auto standby function is overridden. As long as no modulation at the input discharges at this point Elko slowly from 16V up to 1V, when a certain threshold value, the switch-off is triggered. The 10k pull-up resistor holds this point constant at 16V, thus preventing discharging. Incidentally, T40 and T20 obviously contain identical boards and differ only by an additional speaker.
I raise my rating from 1 to 2 points, because the boxes are now OK for me ;-) - but of course, such a DIY solution as the only option still unreasonable, especially as the warranty expires and there is a risk when soldering on the SMD PCB etc damaging something else ... One am still perplexed why such a nonsense is installed in the first place.
