Okay... Give me dirt on Alesis and Behringer.

[moskus]

Well, I know the dirt on Behringer already.

To the point. I'm buying new monitors this/next week. And it's between these two:
Behringer THRUTHS: 5998 NOK = $860
Alesis Monitor One MKII: 4998 NOK = $714 (NB! On sale!)

I haven't heard the Alesis, and I don't know anything about them. Anybody got any tips?

Please don't say "Get this and this monitors". I can tell you I can't afford them here.




Remember this is Norway and recording equipment is extremely expensive around here.

[Blue Bear Sound]

I honestly hope you don't buy either of them.... seriously....

[moskus]

Originally posted by Blue Bear Sound
I honestly hope you don't buy either of them.... seriously....

Okay... so which do you suggest? (I should have known the name of your favorite monitors by now )

[Blue Bear Sound]

I personally love my KRKs, but Tannoys, Events, Genelec, Westlakes, and Adam are all excellent.

[carlosguardia]

I use the Roland DS-90 and am happy with them. I know their limitations and my ears are already used to mixing with these monitors which ultimately is the ideal case scenario. They did cost over 1,000 the pair but that's just because in Costa Rica thigs are just as expensive as in Europe.

Carlos

[_ronin75_]

Well then check these prices ...
http://www.music-station.com/index.cfm?374,4

they might even ship for free ...

[Aloha]

Blue bear, whats wrong with the alesis mkII's ?

And what would you suggest for around the same price?

[Blue Bear Sound]

Alesis have never been known for the quality of their monitors....

Look at Tannoy Reveals for about the same price....

[Teacher]

Yorkville YSM1's anyone?

[giles117]

The Alesis MkII's are artificially bright and edgy. Not natural like a good monitor is.

The Behringers are midrangy. Good if you want to see what your mix sounds like on boom box speakers.

Bryan Giles

I Use Mackie HR824's

Well worht price if you ask me

[TexRoadkill]

If you can't afford the monitors that Bear suggested then find an old pair of Yamaha NS10's. They will work as good or better than any of the cheap pairs and they are guaranteed to go up in value.

[Bryaxis]

event tr-6's are great

[Leeking]

I dunno, the behringer truth has been having some good reviews around.

I personally heard the Alesis and was not impressed. I prefer my Yamaha MSP5 better.

If I could start over, I'll look into KRK.

[carlosguardia]

I´m thinking about getting the Genelec 1031´s for christmas. Any comments on those?!

Carlos

[Jburn34]

I had the alesis mkII's and they sucked. Now I have Event 20/20's and JBL 4406 and both of them are better by far.

Jeremy

[Chris Tondreau]

Good reviews about the Truths are generally easy to find.

Chris

[moskus]

Thank you all!


I would really like to hear the Events and Yorkvilles, but in this goddam country nobody sells them "because there's no marked for monitors". The few monitors (or recording equipment in general) around is extremely expensive because of the Norwegian Toll-laws (which is making importing monitors from the states a "don't even think about it"-thing).

AAAARGH!

[Blue Bear Sound]

Originally posted by Chris Tondreau
Good reviews about the Truths are generally easy to find.

Chris

Yes... by the same people giving good reviews about Bellari mic pres!

[Teacher]

Originally posted by moskus
Thank you all!


I would really like to hear the Events and Yorkvilles, but in this goddam country nobody sells them "because there's no marked for monitors". The few monitors (or recording equipment in general) around is extremely expensive because of the Norwegian Toll-laws (which is making importing monitors from the states a "don't even think about it"-thing).

AAAARGH!

looks like someone needs to plan a trip state side....ur Euro dollars would go farther here too

[malcolm123]

Originally posted by Blue Bear Sound
Yes... by the same people giving good reviews about Bellari mic pres!

HEY ! I once had a Bellari dual Mic pre. my chain was ADK 5.1 > Bellari> Tascam TMD4000 XLR ( phanton OFF ).

Then All of my equipment was stolen. So after replacing everything except the Bellari, I ran my mic straight to the Tascam TMD4000 micpre with Phantom, and.........

Yeah, the Bellari sucked and I didnt even know it !!

At least it was a gift though. LOL
I do miss it's shiny precence in the RACK


Back to the post.. Man just get a pair of Yorkville YSM1s passives and call it a day.


Malcolm

[moskus]

Originally posted by Teacher
looks like someone needs to plan a trip state side....ur Euro dollars would go farther here too

Yeah... and Norway is not even part of the EU (that's actually a good thing).

But the trip is expensive too, though. Maybe next vacation, and I could join the jamfest!

[christiaan]

My Tannoy Reveal passives got delivered yesterday for 230,- euros shipped. Ordered them from www.musikproduktiv.de in Germany. Still using my 10 years old Sony hifi amp, I'll leave that upgrade for later but the new combo is already a big improvement over what I used before.
Maybe I would have liked KRK's better, or Yorkies.. I don't know. This is what I could afford, Tannoys are actually cheaper in Europe than in the US (one of the very few things), and it's working for me at this point on my learning curve. My biggest concern now is room treatment to make them really shine...

Anyway... Just sharing options here.

[bean 123]

I would recommend doing everything you can to find a place that you can listen to the monitors. I read reviews, posts, etc for 6 months and decided on a certain monitor...I was prepared to spend $600.... at the last minute, I decided to travel 1 1/2 hours to the nearest music store that carried a bunch of different brands to listen to them. What an eye opener! I wound up spending $300 on some Samson resolv 65a's. I brought in some of my mixes on CD and tried every pair they had and discovered the monitors I was ready to buy blindly sounded far worse than these. I was REALLY glad I made the trip. Write ups, reviews and other's opinions only mean so much. Let your ears be the judge!Good Luck!

[DrBob]

I'm a bit late on this one, but I just wanted to share my experience. I've also had the opportunity to go to a shop with some known material, and to listen to several monitors. I also have budget constraint, so I can't afford the big guys (e.g. Mackie). After reading several reviews and advices on several forums, I listened particularly to the Behringer truth, alesis M1 MkII and Samson resolv65a. The alesis sounded the worst to me. Total lack of presence in the mid range (again, to my ears). The behringer were a bit better, and had also more bass end. But the samson were the best of the three, and 2 friends who were with me had the same opinion without knowing mine. The best of it is that the resolv are the cheaper of ther three...
So, listen to your ears, and try to test the monitors you think to buy with known material.
Regards,
DrBob

[mari]

Please please please DO NOT buy Behringer Truth speakers. It'd be a huge mistake. I dont know if you've read my thread about my experience with these speakers. I'm still going through the hassle of it all. They are simply not reliable. I'm just about to send the faulty one back to the suppliers in Germany for the second time. Behringer actually returned the speaker to me (via suppliers)in the same condition I sent it out in! Unbelievable but true. I only had it for a few weeks.

A friend of my bought Alesis speakers and seemed pretty happy with them. Best to talkto someone that has used them or better still, try them out yourself.

Good Luck.