Yorkville Monitors

[Heezzi]

What are some good places to purchase Yorkville monitors?

[Gidge]

http://www.wheatonmusic.com/

[Heezzi]

Good man...

[Heezzi]

Ok after I buy them, would I need to purchase speaker cables. Also, what do they come with?

[Heezzi]

What is in included when you buy them? Do you have to purchase anything else to connect them?

[elevate]

You'll need to get some cables.

[Heezzi]

Ok I went to a Sound store today, to price check the Yorkville's, they didn't have them but they did have some Alesis Monitor One MK II's. I listened to them and think they sound good however I didn't have anything to compare them to. How would they compare to the YSM-1p?

[sbruce]

Well, I'm not expert; but the Yorks will provide you a better representation of your mix. I just moved from Monitor Ones to the YSM's and the diff. is night and day. The best way to describe the Monitor One's is to say they sound like a nice Hi-Fi speaker. In fact, I used to have a pair of Bose 302's for my stereo; and the Alesis sounded very similar. That isn't nec. bad; but it does have a hyped "low-mid" sound.
For mixing monitors, you want to hear what you've actually got in your mix. The Yorks have really helped my mixes and have some "depth" (Something I had never even heard on my Alesis)
I would go for the York's. Just my 2 cents :=)

[ambi]

yea, yorks, word.
ive heard bad things about the alesis

[Heezzi]

So did you bad things about the Alesis Monitor One MK 1 or the Alesis Monitor One MK 2?

[sbruce]

FYI...my Monitor One's were the older "original" version. Good luck, and as has been stated before, let YOUR ears be the judge! After all, you're the one doing the mix

Steven

[Heezzi]

Yes.. I will good ahead and get the Yorkville's as planed. When I get them, I'm going to take them into store to let them hear them. What type of speaker cables you use?

[The Green Hornet]

Yo Heezzi:

You can get Yorkville on line and they will tell you where the closest dealer is to your panhandle handle.

There is probably 22 tons of stuff on this site about cables. You don't need to spend it all on cables but you should get a decent set with adequate connectors.

I assume you are getting the "passive" Yorks? I think the amped Yorks are available but I haven't heard much about the quality.

I really dig my passive Yorks and I sold my Alesis I's to "SOUP'S ON" in Seattle, Wn. Guess they dug them for some reason.

Green Hornet

[Heezzi]

Yeah I was going to get the active ones. I checked Yorkville's site and the store didn't sell the YSM's only Yorkville Pro Audio equipment. Now I need to find them on the net.

[sbruce]

The best price I found was at Gear1Music.com

I think it wsas $430 w/ shipping. You wont' need speaker cables for the actives (I'm sure you knew that...sorry, just making sure ) and I would suggest you use balanced cables from your mixer/soundcard,etc. to the York's. It has both 1/4" and XLR. Either will work just fine. I'm sure you'll like the Yorks' I have been nothing but pleased with mine thus far.

S

[Heezzi]

I will have to temporary chain the speakers to the computer's soundcard.

[Heezzi]

They at line level right?

[Heezzi]

These things are huge!! I didn't know they were this big. I will need some 1/4 cables. Anyone here running them into a non-recording soundcard?

[Heezzi]

I have the monitors hooked up, and I am hearing some low noise comming from the tweeter region, is this normal?

[Zoddman]

If you balanced outs...
try these....less than 1/2 the cost of my local store.

http://www.marsmusic.com/store/produ...navAction=push

Also, for pricing on the Yorks try using google....I found a ton of good prices,
419 with shipping and no tax sound good?
http://www.gear1music.com/yorkvilleysm1p.html

Or 422?
http://soundexchange2.com/yorysmonspea.html

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...+monitor+price

[Blue Bear Sound]

You'll want to use some high-quality cable between your active monitors and your mixer (or soundcard) output......

It's not like speaker cable where you can essentially get away with zip cord. The difference in cable on line-level signals is far less subtle.

Look at cable by Canare, Mogami, Gepco, even Monster if you have money to burn (Monster is good cable, but generally overpriced....)

[Teacher]

is this high quality speaker wire only necessary for the active monitors or is it also beneficiary to the passive monitors...i just use some regular old speaker wire for my Yorky's..not extremely cheap but not name brand either

[djc]

If they are YSM1P's (powered monitors) you need to use shielded cable from the sound card/mixer to the speaker. Not speaker wire. If it is the YSM1 (non-powered) you do use speaker wire from the power amp to the speaker. The way I have mine set up is: Crown jack cables from my Audiophile output to the input of a little mixer I have. Then the mixer output to my Yorkville YSM1P's. All shielded cable. BTW the Yorkvilles take a 1/4" guitar jack as an input connector. I have the mixer in between just to control the volume going to the Yorks. I like to have a physical volume control going to the speakers. And besides, I have other amps and speakers hooked up to it so I can listen to different sets of speakers.

[Heezzi]

Originally posted by Zoddman
If you balanced outs...
try these....less than 1/2 the cost of my local store.

http://www.marsmusic.com/store/produ...navAction=push

Also, for pricing on the Yorks try using google....I found a ton of good prices,
419 with shipping and no tax sound good?
http://www.gear1music.com/yorkvilleysm1p.html

Thanks anyway, but I had already bought them. You missed my post above. I have found that the XLR cables would be the best way to go to hook them up. I need to get some from MarkerTek.