Cut YSM1P’s or Boost RP5's?

[gvdv]

Hi,
I spent about 45 minutes yesterday comparing a pair of Yorkville YSM1P’s and KRK RP5's. I can only afford monitors in this price range right now.

I loved the clarity and separation in the mids of the YSM1P's, but found, that the highs were very harsh (and after about a half hour of listening I began to experience ear fatigue whenever we switched back to the YSM1P's).

In comparison, the RP5's sounded muddy in the mid range, and a bit lacking in the highs, but more 'accurate' overall.

My question is this: would I be better off buying the YSMP1's and trying to cut the highs, or buying the RP5's and boosting/EQ'ing to get more detail in the highs (I don't think the RP5's could be EQ'd to get any more detail in the mids)?

Thanks,

 

[mixsit]

I'm just going to join in the speculating'. First off when a monitor is being described as 'more open, or 'revealing in a particular range I always have to wonder if (in each case because it certainly varies from case to the next) if it is due to more emphasis in that range.. or more coherency/less distortion?
My intuition would think frequency error, at least if they weren't sharp errors, would be easier to learn and compensate for (or even eq) than the fog, time smear' kind.
That would follow to ask, try taming the top on the Yorkies'? Or could the mud in the KRKs be a hump in the mid bass? (In that case room position/quality could be a huge factor)
But again this is a lot of arm chain hogwashing. You're there, and I ain't.

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[CoolCat]

i have the YSM1p and have side by sided with DYNBM5a and MAckie HR8 and they do very well. The YSM1ps are cheaper but its not like a "million dollar" distance from the the others in sound, imo.

I think your dealing more with the characteristic of 5" vs 6" and tastes of a design.

Tweeters are really personal taste. I agree with you, get something you'll like to live with for many hours.

as far as mixing I think anything that works for you works best...I've given up on figuring that "phenomena out"....I mean gold records and famous Engineers with huge success's using NS10's with toilet paper over the tweeter and Radio Shack Optimus 7's!!
not really a "flat 20-20K" speaker per technical views..but gold records tweeked to accomadate that freq response.....and it works obviously?....the "shitty speaker mixing phenomena".

giving your speakers the best you can offer....
if its HR Bedroom studio, i think a smaller distance, the EE triangle maybe minus a few inches even, can help. removes the room effect...or spend some $$ on the room, spend sometime on speaker stands and speaker placement etc...thats what I like doing.

and though there's that "standard 85db volume" to do, but turning things down can help in a small hr room...at least this is what I find in my amateur hobby mixing situation to get better playbacks.
as i understand it, the room nodes(dips/spikes) get worse as the volume goes up, and according to my "home-bedroom" RTA FFT whatever readings thats correct..and thats just in the mixing seat! hell I don't even attempt the whole room. With smaller speakers with less bass this makes things easier, maybe not optimal, but easier to work with. Bass makes things harder, traps needed, frkn nodes and all that stuff....

none of my speaker readings in my room look like the specs on the speakers sheet. i find that almost every 6" speaker I test shows a drop off at 100-150hz....is it my room or the speaker?

the NS10 has nothing below that range...and with toilet paper over the tweeter, single ply I think.....many platinum records were tweeked to this ugly duckling-spec sheet speaker.

i mixed a tune using my sub. it sounded great. when played on my pastic PC speakers they overdosed. flatlined.....ass sounds.

when I mixed the same tune using my YSM1p's /no sub.....the tune translated better, much better. But yet when played on my system with a sub, it was lacking in bass.

yet I find most commercially (well done recording) don't have this problem.

in short,
I can't help you at all because I'm confused as hell....but good luck