In a method and device for field quality testing of a magnetic resonance antenna arrangement of a magnetic resonance system composed of multiple antenna elements, a test signal is fed into the respective antenna elements by a transmission antenna and the test signal, or a noise signal that occurs with no signal fed to the respective antenna elements, is determined at a receiver unit for each of at least some of the individual antenna elements. The noise received noise signals and/or test signals are analyzed with regard to specific characteristic data and a quality state of the magnetic resonance antenna arrangement is determined based thereon.