Help selecting monitors

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I will say this, and leave the conversation alone because there are obviously opposing views, and neither side is right or wrong.

If you have a multi-thousand dollar studio and buy cheap monitors, you are not the most intelligent fellow, and you're wasting your time.

On the flip side, if you have average quality equipment that's not capable of producing the high standard work that requires excellent monitoring, buying $2,000 monitors is not very intelligent either.

I have heard pro quality recordings mixed by a local studio who uses Event 20/20bas monitors....and I'm talking major caliber work. I've also heard AM radio quality CRAP mixed on top of the line monitors.

There are no right or wrongs, just different needs for different folks (at different stages of their engineering evolution).

Take that for what you will! :)
 
Drummerbones makes a good point. And I should say that I definitely go into any endeavor with the attitude that I'm going to push the envelope. If you're just interested in making recordings that sound like everything else you hear on the radio then, yes, maybe Events are good enough for you. If you want to hear and control things as much as possible in order to define and push the limits of YOUR SOUND, then maybe you should look further.

barefoot
 
Alesis Monitor One

What about the Monitor Ones?
I read on the internet that they are so flat, so accurate; how they are "award winning" monitors. People love 'em.
Then I read on this forum how they suck. Nobody likes them. What's the dang deal?
 
Re: Alesis Monitor One

sibleypeck said:
What about the Monitor Ones?
I read on the internet that they are so flat, so accurate; how they are "award winning" monitors. People love 'em.
Then I read on this forum how they suck. Nobody likes them. What's the dang deal?
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Well, yesterday I did a monitor A/B-session. My results are on the recording forum of Harmony Central.

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/Forum3/HTML/006635.html

Check it out. If you're in the sub $500 range, go Behringer Truth, otherwise save up for Mackie HR824's.

Note that I haven't been able to check:
-KRK V6
-KRK V8
-Tannoy Reveal Active
-Event PS 6
-Event PS 8

Anyway, the Truths beat the Monitor One Actives AND passives!
 
Excellent post, Speeddemon. Thanks for the info.
How is it that the Truths cost so little (by comparison) but seem to deliver so much?
Could the passive Monitor Ones possibly be any good?
 
sibleypeck

I DID say what I thought about the PASSIVE AND ACTIVE Monitor Ones.
When I was in another store, I could only A/B the Monitor Ones MK II Active, the Monitor Ones MK I Passive and the Spirit Absolute Zero's. My fault was, I only A/B-ed these on Steely Dan's "Aja", so all three pairs sounded pretty much similar.
The CD-player was connected to a Mackie 1402 VLZ Pro, and I brought along my very decent Sennheiser HD 265 Lineair headphones, just to verify the speakers with.

When only A/B-ing those 3, the list goes:
1st place: Alesis Monitor One MK II ACTIVE
2nd: Alesis Monitor One MK I passive
3rd: Spirit Absolute Zero's.

But, when you bring on the Yamaha MSP5's and the Behringer Truths, the Alesis and Spirit stuff just plain..... SUCKS!

Then the BUDGET list goes:
1) Behringer Truth
2) Yamaha MSP5 (if money allows + sub)
3) Alesis Monitor One MK II Active
4) Alesis Monitor One MK I Passive
5) Spirit Absolute Two's
6) Spirit Absolute Zero's

***Note:*** I HAVEN'T been able to check the Behringers vs. Tannoy Reveals Active, Event PS-5, PS-6 and PS-8. From what I hear, those might be better.

Hope this explains my points a bit more.
Cheerz. YMMV Ofcourse....
 
sibleypeck said:
Excellent post, Speeddemon. Thanks for the info.
How is it that the Truths cost so little (by comparison) but seem to deliver so much?
Could the passive Monitor Ones possibly be any good?
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1) The Truths cost probably less, because they were 'invented' :rolleyes: later than the Alesis monitors. And people say Behringer uses 2nd rated components and possibly Chinese child labor. I have NO OPINION about this, as I don't know The Truth :D :D ....

2) The passive Monitor ones are only 'good' compared to the Spirit Absolute Zero's and Two's... That says a lot, I think.

If you're on a budget, just be sure to check those Behringers.
 
Uhm,,,

I think so. I dunno, because, when you hook em up like that to your soundcard, it means, you control the volume level from inside the PC, and I hear that brings a long a lot of artifacts.

I have to connect my future monitors with RCA-to-jack or XLR-cables from my Korg D16's "monitor out", which has its own indepedent volume-pot.
 
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