Has anyone tested these Monitors?

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well i was at gc and do a test on the mackies 624 and 824 series, then i listen the event studio precision 8". and for me the event ws the best.

, i tried, the mackies 624, event 20/20 bas, some maudio, and the krk v6 series 2, my choice was the krk v6 version 2.

sound great, lots of power, and some of my first mixes on them translate very very nice, still need time to get the soul and the sound of the v6, but for 600 tax include, was a great deal. have all the bass i need and whatever, i like these monitors personally i was at gc with the idea of getting the 824, and i choose the krk's after 2 hours of testing.
 
forgot to tell u , i was doing mix with my b&w 601's and a bryston amp. but wanted another reference.
 
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alexthacowboy said:
well i was at gc and do a test on the mackies 624 and 824 series, then i listen the event studio precision 8". and for me the event ws the best.

, i tried, the mackies 624, event 20/20 bas, some maudio, and the krk v6 series 2, my choice was the krk v6 version 2.

sound great, lots of power, and some of my first mixes on them translate very very nice, still need time to get the soul and the sound of the v6, but for 600 tax include, was a great deal. have all the bass i need and whatever, i like these monitors personally i was at gc with the idea of getting the 824, and i choose the krk's after 2 hours of testing.
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thats a good post imo.
Part1- research
PArt 2- go listen
BIG Part 3- do they translate? thats the proof in the pudding, the big
shamboli, the tooth of the .... :)

your mention of "translate very,very nice"..
thats what it's all about. maybe more important than the "ears" test?

i didn't hear the V6's...
but I'm concerned about the translating, as i don't do many mixes.
I was leaning towards KRKRP8" but maybe overkill in my
small bedroom/studio..I picked 'em because of sound-good-to-me?

???fhk, if i wants listening speakers i can get nice hi-fi towers on Overstock.com for $79 a pair!!

TRANZLATIONZ"S yes thast itz...

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I tried a sequence of monitors and ending up getting the Mackie HR824s Best I could do at the time for what I had to spend ($1200).

Would I upgrade? Possibly. They are nice, and do the job great for now. If I upgraded, it would probably be to Adams, although I haven't heard any recent offerings from Dynaudio, so I'll give them a listen.

Do I ever regret getting the HR824s? Not at all.

BTW, I heard the 624s, and they are no 824s.

My $0.02
 
I like my KRK RP8s a lot. I'm sure there are better monitors out there. Good luck.
 
I have a couple 824's and I think they are better for post production work than for album work. The 824's translate *really well* to dubbing mix rooms, sound stages with big screens and monitor systems. Really, really good translation in my experience. However, I am a lot less happy with how mixes translate to home stereo. Seems like it's much harder to get it to sound right. Just my opinion, based on experience. I agree about the reverb/echo thing.

As far as the 624's being bass light: yeah, but what do you expect? They were designed to be used with a sub.

The 824's are very good monitors for the money in my opinion, I'm still glad I bought mine. However, like any other monitor, you have to learn it. For scoring or post work the 824's are great. For album work, you definitely have some other monitors in the same approximate price range that are worth considering.
 
I realize that Monitor choice is like food choice or choice of clothing.
There is some stuff that most people will like, some stuff some people will, like and some stuff that a few people will like.

Personally, the KRK and the Samsons compared to either the Events or the Mackies don't hold up. I'm going to do a mix but it's mainly voice overs. No Rock, just speach with background music.
Has anyone tried to use them for voiceovers?
 
Dracon said:
I'm going to do a mix but it's mainly voice overs. No Rock, just speech with background music.
Has anyone tried to use them for voiceovers?
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Just voice over stuff? How about a Spendor/Harbeth/Rogers LS3/5a?
 
I doubt he'll be going off the beaten track so far as to use British monitors!
 
I'd been keeping my eye out for a good deal on a pair of monitors. For the situation we're in right now I'd pretty much decided that the way to go was 6" active. That was based on several things. Number one was buget ($300). Number two was the need for a resonably portable set-up and three there really isn't a space (yet, they're actually in a very large room) for anything bigger. Walked into Guitar Center to pick up a couple of small things and there was a pile of used Mackie 624 monitors with no price tag. We live only a few miles from the Mackie corporate headquarters so there is a LOT of Mackie stuff up here in the Northwest! I asked the manager about them and to my surprise he said they had one pair they could sell for $300 for the pair.

That seemed like a really good deal so we tested them and ended up taking them home. Compared to the $25 Altec Lansing computer speakers from Goodwill they're awesome :D

We're doing mostly vocals, some piano and a little acousitc guitar. A matching sub isn't in the buget for some time. We do have a KLH active subwoofer as part of our home stereo surround sound. Would that be worth patching in or would just be garbage added to a nice set-up? I'm wondering in general what people's opinions are on the 624 for the type of music we're doing.
 
Alden_Sloe said:
I'd been keeping my eye out for a good deal on a pair of monitors. For the situation we're in right now I'd pretty much decided that the way to go was 6" active. That was based on several things. Number one was buget ($300). Number two was the need for a resonably portable set-up and three there really isn't a space (yet, they're actually in a very large room) for anything bigger. Walked into Guitar Center to pick up a couple of small things and there was a pile of used Mackie 624 monitors with no price tag. We live only a few miles from the Mackie corporate headquarters so there is a LOT of Mackie stuff up here in the Northwest! I asked the manager about them and to my surprise he said they had one pair they could sell for $300 for the pair.

That seemed like a really good deal so we tested them and ended up taking them home. Compared to the $25 Altec Lansing computer speakers from Goodwill they're awesome :D

We're doing mostly vocals, some piano and a little acousitc guitar. A matching sub isn't in the buget for some time. We do have a KLH active subwoofer as part of our home stereo surround sound. Would that be worth patching in or would just be garbage added to a nice set-up? I'm wondering in general what people's opinions are on the 624 for the type of music we're doing.
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Don't know what to tell ya about the monitors you are looking at, but first and foremost, start new threads. Don't post in ones that have been inactive since 1/2005.

Second, it is generally not a good idea to put a home stereo sub in the mix with any sorts of monitors (from what I've been told), since they aren't designed to play back a flat frequency range over any particular interval, and as such, likely won't produce an accurate picture of what your low end really sounds like in relation to the rest of your mix.
 
cusebassman said:
... generally not a good idea to put a home stereo sub in the mix with any sorts of monitors (from what I've been told), since they aren't designed to play back a flat frequency range over any particular interval, and as such, likely won't produce an accurate picture of what your low end really sounds like in relation to the rest of your mix.
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How important is a flat freq. response when we're only talking about filling in the missing lows (either <80 Hz or <49 Hz depending on how the 624's are switched). It seems like just getting the balance (volume) to match would be the main issue. Or, does a well designed subwoofer system extend well up (overlap) into the frequency range of the main speakers?

From reading this thread and others the main complaint with the 624 is that it doesn't produce enough bass. Therefore people tend to over do the base in the mix. Would it make sense to patch in the sub (even a cheap one) but only actually power it up as a check when doing the final mix? Or does it make more sense to just send the whole mess over to the (not so fantastic) home stereo? Keeping in mind that we're talking primarily about vocals and acoustic work there's not really that much below what the Mackie 624 can reproduce. Maybe just a wee bit of resonance from a piano? Maybe I'm missing the boat on this too :confused:

cusebassman said:
... first and foremost, start new threads. Don't post in ones that have been inactive since 1/2005.
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From a newbie's point of view it's really hard to search out all the gems of wisdom already posted when they're scattered across tens, sometimes hundreds of different posts. I tried to pick the thread that already contained the most information on the Mackie 624. And admittedly, although that was the original topic of this thread it would have been nice if the Title contained a reference to the Mackie 624. The other reason I tacked on to the end of this thread is the common response from long time readers is "use the search function :mad:" when you start a new thread that's already been discussed numerous times.
 
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