Home Studio MOnitors: Active, USB or passive?

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Pykon

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Hi,

I'm planning to buy some monitors that will start working from some 40 Hz.

My home mixing place is a 15 sq meter room so it doesn't need lots of watts.

Is the USB active monitor idea worth thinking?

Or should I look for active pair of monitors with S/PDIF in and they will do the job better?

Or maybe traditional passive ones?

Bi-Amped or not?

And something about the cost - of course it would be great to match low cost and quality, but what I'm looking for is some compromise - in other words to stop with price at the point where more money won't bring more sound accuracy and the differences between models become very subtle.

peace,

Mike
 
Washburn100 said:
Your method of budgeting is too vague. How much or what price range do you want to spend?
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Some 500-800 $.

And one more important issue: I'm using Line6 Gearbox software for amp modelling which normally sends to he UX2 TonePort outs in live mode. The question is if it's possible to send Grarbox-processed signals to USB monitors (=another sound card). It makes no problem with re-amping on Gearbox, but to play guitar and listen to it at the same time could be a challenge as this app sticks to its own hardware (TonePort) outs.

Best,

Mike
 
I would not use USB monitors. Your Toneport is a great interface, so I would get active monitors and use them out of the Toneport. For $500-$800, you can get some really good monitors. Google for Mackies, KRK's, Adam's and you will find something. There are lots of others as well.
 
Washburn100 said:
I would not use USB monitors. Your Toneport is a great interface, so I would get active monitors and use them out of the Toneport. For $500-$800, you can get some really good monitors. Google for Mackies, KRK's, Adam's and you will find something. There are lots of others as well.
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OK, so let's make it easier.

a) Yamaha HS80M;

b) KRK VXT6, VXT8;

c) KRK Rookit 6, Rookit 8.

a), b) or c)?

Anyone knows how they perform/compare?

Mike
 
You'll get a lot of opinions about monitors! Any chance you can get to a music store and audition some before you make your choice? That would be best.

If I had a gun to my head and had to select from the options you posted, I'd pick the Yamahas but there are a lot of choices.

Keep reading reviews and listen to some if you can. Good luck
 
Anyone knows how they perform/compare?
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Hi Mike:
Monitors are expensive, as you can see, so finding someone who's had a whole bunch of different monitors is hard to do. That and their opinions would be entirely subjective.
For what it's worth, I have the Behringer 2030 A and love them.
 
being in europe you ought to have access to tannoy... i've got a pair of reveal powered here... and i love these things... i purchased mine while selling audio a few years back... i had access to mackie and jbl too at the time and i thought the tannoys were the ones to go to...
 
I have a cool reference amp...so passive was for me...but going active is about the only way to go nowdays...I dont think they even sell the passives anymore:confused:

Sometimes on craigslist there are cool sets of passive nearfields and midfields...Ive even seen those JBLs with the twin 15" woffers and the horns for cheap...those dont come active.
 
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