picking Studio Monitors
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einstein magoo
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I've got them and really like them. I imagine my ears are probably lying to me in my roughly 18 1/2' x 20' room due to no room treatment yet, but the monitors themselves are nice, powerful enough, and do not appear to add any (or much) self noise. I got them a few months ago and have no regrets.
witzendoz
Senior Member
The final choice of monitors come down to the individual taste. However as said before, the room needs to sound good before you can judge. I have seen a lot of bad amateur reviews on monitors because the buyer thought that the new monitors would somehow make their mixes sound awesome when the room is horrible and there is no magic monitors.
Alan.
Alan.
I chose my Tannoy 5As on the basis of reading as many reviews as possible and a magazine "shootout" where they trounced monitors nearly twice their price in a blind test. But THE most convincing aspects for me were...
1)I don't remember a time when Tannoy were not around!
2) They have a very good reputation and tho' the 5As are budget monitors I am sure they would not sell anything to besmirch that reputation?
3)They largely stick to speakers, i.e. they don't also sell every other audio gimcrack you can think of!
Ok, they won't go very low or very loud but for my son's "classical" and jazz leanings, perfek!
OP, "Room treatment". If you have the typical projjy bedroom "studio" say sub 1500cu ft you will not have room for much in the way of bass trapping (I have 1222cu ft and have very little and even less space!) so about the best you can do is attend to "early reflections" to get a good stereo image. Look up the Studio SOS articles in Studio Sound.
Dave.
1)I don't remember a time when Tannoy were not around!
2) They have a very good reputation and tho' the 5As are budget monitors I am sure they would not sell anything to besmirch that reputation?
3)They largely stick to speakers, i.e. they don't also sell every other audio gimcrack you can think of!
Ok, they won't go very low or very loud but for my son's "classical" and jazz leanings, perfek!
OP, "Room treatment". If you have the typical projjy bedroom "studio" say sub 1500cu ft you will not have room for much in the way of bass trapping (I have 1222cu ft and have very little and even less space!) so about the best you can do is attend to "early reflections" to get a good stereo image. Look up the Studio SOS articles in Studio Sound.
Dave.
Dave Holmes
New member
We had a pair of the old blue Tannoy Reveals years ago and they were great!