Between these two speakers...

[ambi]

Which do you think is best, and why? We need a good raging debate thread. I haven't seen a windows vs mac or intel vs amd thread lately, so i'm hoping this will fill in a bit of a gap.

Mackie HR824

Blue Sky System one 2.1

[Kryogh]

Ambi, do I have to awnser these questions?

oh! The same day I sold my 2020bas (I got 830$ cad), I saw on a website (www.lespac.com) a bran new- in the box - pair of HR824 for 800$ CAD!!! (these were probabely stolen monitors)

..I could have bought them but i didnt, I was waiting for the next day to get the BlueSkys

[Stealthtech]

I dont have either one but the Blues are getting good reviews and I would hope they are good for the money they want for em !

[ambi]

Well it seems that technically the blue sky's should be better.

My "logical" resoning behind this is as follows.

The blue skys have a dedicated sub woofer for the low frequencies! The mid range driver on the satalites is just that! midrange! So it doesn't have to handle the sub frequencies, therefore being able to more accuratly reproduce mid range frequencies. Also i've heard that if you have an 8 inch driver doing with bass and midrange, the midrange suffers. You get much better bass response, but the midrange frequences get a little worse. So the 6.5 inch driver on the blue's should do a better job of producing mid's than the mackies, AND that's all they do.


Does this make any sense? Sorry i'm just looking for some more info and comparisions between the two beyond the stats on the websites and the biased reviews in magazines.


800$ for the pair! What the hell! So kryogh, are they worth it? It seems like a hell of a lot of money to spend on speakers. If i think of the sheer ammount of time i spent listening to music, it seems like it would be worth it just for that. And then there is mixing!

So they're can pound pretty good right? Say if you were having a house party or something they could rock it pretty well? Sorry for my constant references to house parties, i don't know what else to say.

[alfalfa]

Many people have difficulties getting seamless integration between subs and bookshelf speakers. The bass can sound disconnected from the rest of the music due to things like phase shift and group delay and a bunch of technical stuff I dont really understand. Therefore the difficulties in integration may outweigh the benefits of having a dedicated midrange driver (eg reduced intermodulation distortion).

How this applies specifically to bluesky and mackie only an extensive listening comparison will reveal.

[ambi]

That is completely true.

And how do you feel about the situation of sending the signal through a soundcraft or mackie mixing board and using that to control the volume?

I can't remember if you had said that was a bad idea or not. I know a few people did and i think maybe you were against that idea.

[alfalfa]

A mixer is convenient. But I think its a bit of a waste having a cheap mixer like a mackie between a good soundcard and some quality speakers like the blue skys. Someone wrote in the other thread that they would rather use the digital volume control of their soundcard (and suffer some loss in bits and resolution) rather than have a mackie mixer in the signal path because the mackie placed a 'veil' over the music.

[bleyrad]

Well, I am against the idea, because I've tried it, and it sounds like shit.


BTW I found a site dealing with pad building. Think I'll give it a shot.

http://www.uneeda-audio.com/pads/

[ambi]

Yea that sounds about right.
You feel like building me a pad?

Damn it would be SO convinient to plug it into a mixer wouldn't it. hrmmff..

The idea of having to pay 400 dollars just for a volume knob and still have no headphone mixes pisses me off.