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jiggsaw
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I currently have the bx-5's and i'm looking to upgrade. Which one would u choose between these two?
dcwave
New member
I have the old KRK rokits (the angled side ones and passive with a hafler amp), I borrowed a pair of event TR 6 to compare to. When I get some money I will be getting the Events. In my room (the thing you really have to look at), and without any treatment, I found I had a better sweet spot, tighter definition in the low mids, and a more natural sounding high end. I was shocked at what I wasnt hearing before! Since these were the 6s the low end still seemed "forced" but that may have had something to do with not having a treated room. My opinion after listening to a few similar monitors in my room, is that the KRKs while good enough to mix with, are better general listening speakers, the "B" pair.
Just my long winded opinion... your milage may vary.
The best thing you can do is do some critical listening between the ones you have, and the two sets you want. Make a list of what you like about each, what you think you are missing from the current ones, and then really listen. Then, if you can, take the ones you like home (get whomever to give you a $$ back deal if they suck in your room), and listen to everything under the sun on them for at least an hour per day for a week, taking notes about how they sound in YOUR room. If they suck take them back or treat your room until you can pin point in space where every sound comes from and at every frequency. Good luck.
Just my long winded opinion... your milage may vary.
The best thing you can do is do some critical listening between the ones you have, and the two sets you want. Make a list of what you like about each, what you think you are missing from the current ones, and then really listen. Then, if you can, take the ones you like home (get whomever to give you a $$ back deal if they suck in your room), and listen to everything under the sun on them for at least an hour per day for a week, taking notes about how they sound in YOUR room. If they suck take them back or treat your room until you can pin point in space where every sound comes from and at every frequency. Good luck.
CoolCat
Well-known member
monitors conjunctionfunction
and record/log how many times you have to burn another CD before your happy with the translatations to other systems.
i've learned some fundementals around here, and was just throwing away old burnt CD-r's today...damn I used to have to do like 12qty!!!!
these days its like 3 re-mixes and even the first attempt is pretty tolerable.
just from tracking techniques and some room acoustics and hell, bunch of basic stuff I didn't know about before... i think mixing with headphones was the first big change.
you might want to try a sub with those Bx5, cross around 80hz.
if you don't like ..take the sub back. just an idea.
and record/log how many times you have to burn another CD before your happy with the translatations to other systems.
i've learned some fundementals around here, and was just throwing away old burnt CD-r's today...damn I used to have to do like 12qty!!!!
these days its like 3 re-mixes and even the first attempt is pretty tolerable.
just from tracking techniques and some room acoustics and hell, bunch of basic stuff I didn't know about before... i think mixing with headphones was the first big change.
you might want to try a sub with those Bx5, cross around 80hz.
if you don't like ..take the sub back. just an idea.
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jonnyc
New member
I still have the bx5's and compared to my Event asp8's and even my Event 20/20 bas V2's they are horrible. I couldn't mix my way out of a wet paper bag with these things. Everything I did was too bassy because the bx5's had none. The tweets crackled all the time. I honestly could only get solo acoustic guitar stuff to sound decent on them. Once I upgraded it was like angels where singing to me. I mixed a song for a band in about 5 minutes asked them to go to the car and listen, they came back and said "its perfect" i laughed and said no its not but thanks. IMO anything Event makes is worth checking out.