can some one help me choosing studio monitors

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i am planning to upgrade my home studio. i have been mixing my tracks with small creative 2.1 pc speaker babies
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since this is not a pro speaker i am unable to get a good frequency response. as a result i am not able to translate mixes into what i want it to be ( it hears so good in pc and when i take it to my cars stereo it sounds muddy hell a lot deficient in bass and mids). so i have planned to get a couple of studio monitors . i don wanna invest much in it though. my budget would be around 20000 rs or 300-350$ per pair. i have a audiophile 2496 sound card so the monitor preferably have a rca output.

i know the best ways to choose monitors is to hear from them. so i had gone to a couple of promusic stores here in chennai to hear from them . had a look at samson resolv65a, m-audiobx5a deluxe, mackie mr5. i wasnt impressed by samson as it gave a high bass output and sounded deficient in mids and had a good high. among m-audio and mackie the mackie impressed me as it has a clearer mid response ( i generally tend to feel that the mids are the most important for songs and it is in this area the tones breathe for more space and sometimes sound crampy).

there are a few other choices like krk rockit 5 and 6 , fostex pm 0.5 mk2, yamaha hs 50 and 80 . but i cannot hear from these monitors here as they have no dealer here . i have to go either to delhi/ bombay spending 200$ ( 10000rs) to chose.

my room is not an acoustically treated room and is fairly a very big room in one corner of which i have my studio gears. i need the monitors for nearfield for mixing in cubase sx3. frankly i wanna choose a monitor which will make my music sound good only when it is actually good.

i know what u pay for is what u get .so can some one suggest me what to decide on and why and help me in going through this ordeal?
 
well your in kinda a hard place... first you need to get everything out of the corners... look for info reguarding full/half/quater space responses... basicly it gets boomy because of this... second room treatments are very important and often help more than a new speaker... though obviously you need them as well... often the thing that makes a pro monitor is it says so on the front... lmao... seriously... so perhaps you might save some cash by looking for used audiophile types if there's a market for such in your area... good luck...
 
The rockits are a good budget alternative, especially if you can find a used pair. Invest part of your budget on acoustic treatment, otherwise your mixes will never sound right.
 
I got a set of Behringer Truth 2031A's, I think they were $350 for the pair. 8" active, they sound good to me.. Freq response will be flatter than your room will allow you to hear. These have a switch on the back too, so if you MUST stay in the corner, it adjusts the low end response (turns it down) to help make up for that.
 
thanks!!

i get to hear from many forums that yamaha HS80 gives the flattest response is it true?
 
finally have come to a sort of a conclusion .

it boils down to this

yamaha hs50 vs mackie mr5

have set aside samsons/krks/maudio/ fostex( i havent auditioned this alone)

am i going the right way?

which one of these?
 
Hey dude

I've been reading this thread with interest.

Im going to put my money into some new rocket 5s OR the Yamaha hs50

Probably going down the Yamaha route after doing some reading, also the fact that every Yamaha product i've owned has been top notch and lasted a very long time
 
drashkum said:
i get to hear from many forums that yamaha HS80 gives the flattest response is it true?
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Flattest response is not always the kicker for a decent monitor. The response may be flat in an anecholic chamber @ 3 ft, but in your room, probably not at all. Monitor choice is really a very personal choice....you are looking for something that reveals detail, yet translates to the real world. I've mixed on Yamaha NS10's for years and they are anything but flat! But they translate very, very well.

A good compromise between response and translation, in your price range, would be the Rokkit 5's unless you are mixing alot of very bass-heavy material. The little Rokkits give decent low end (better than my Tannoy PBM 6.5) and their midrange is a little hyped. But my mixes done on them translate really well.
I've not heard the Yamaha's, but I have used the Mackies which I found to be a little brittle.
Good luck!
 
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thanks for the reply. when i auditioned the mackie mr5 and krk krktogather. i found out that it was colouring the lowfrequency more than the other monitors. i found it to be a little more bassy than others more than even m-audio.thats the same problem what i suffer from my pc speakers now. it gives me a wonderful bass but when i take the sample to my car absolutely there is no bass. if i am doing hip hop alone i would have closed my eyes and would have gone for it. sadly i wanna make all kinds a music.........
 
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