Mackies or Behringers?

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miroslav said:
Double what?!???

:confused:

Who is your rant for since you keep saying "you"...?
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I think he's trying to say that all this cheap labour found in the Far East makes it possible for more people, in this day and age, to dive into home recording, without the restraints of the sort of costs we'd have faced twenty or so years hence.

It's just an opinion. Admittedly, you have to wade through the poor grammar, but it's a valid opinion, nonetheless.
 
arcadeko said:
I like the KRK's better because they are yellow.
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When I was buying my monitors and auditioning different brands, I wanted so much to like the KRKs because they looked great with the yellow speaker, and they certainly sounded good...but the Mackie 824s won in the end.

There was a pair of Tannoys that I also auditioned that had this really cool sapphire blue power light that was really bright...like friggin' laser! :D
They looked super next to my console and with the studio lights down low...but I didn't care for the sound, so I returned them too.

Now days a lot of gear comes with the the blue power lights...and actually, all but one of my guitar amps have blue pilot lights (I changed out all the red/green/amber bezels for blue :cool: ), and several of my rack pieces also have blue power lights.
The sapphire blue color always trumps yellow. :)
 
i dont know why folks dont try out the samson rubicon r5a's, these are excellent budget nearfields....
 
Doctor Varney said:
I think he's trying to say that all this cheap labour found in the Far East makes it possible for more people, in this day and age, to dive into home recording, without the restraints of the sort of costs we'd have faced twenty or so years hence.

It's just an opinion. Admittedly, you have to wade through the poor grammar, but it's a valid opinion, nonetheless.
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That was my reading too.

However, the downside to this opinion is that every job moved to the far east means one fewer "good" job in the USA..or UK or Australia or name-another-developed-country. The price of your accessible gear is much higher in social terms as we move to countries of minimum wage burger flippers rather than building things!
 
Bobbsy said:
That was my reading too.

However, the downside to this opinion is that every job moved to the far east means one fewer "good" job in the USA..or UK or Australia or name-another-developed-country. The price of your accessible gear is much higher in social terms as we move to countries of minimum wage burger flippers rather than building things!
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although there's validity to that, there's no way to prevent it. It's just the way the world's evolving and it was always gonna be that way from the very day it became easy to move and ship between countries.
It's kinda like sooner or later we're gonna run out of vital resources and land to grow food on and there's gonna be a major die-off of us.
You can try to hold it back but whether it's 50 years from now or 150 it's coming. This is the same thing ....... people who try to stop it are wasting their time.
Hell, I pretty much agree with you but I buy all my stuff based on prices because otherwise I wouldn't buy anything at all.
 
I haven't had a lot of different monitors, but I did own b2031a's for several years. I got rid of em not because I had any problem with em, but because MF had krk rokit 8's on the stupid-deal-of-the-day, and I wanted to KNOW if the better reputation brands had better sound, and I knew I could sell either pair so it was a no brainer. I can't tell any significant difference, my room acoustics far overpower any slightly flatter freq response the krk's might have. If your mix room isn't pimped out with bass traps and OC panels or whatever, I honestly dont think your choice of monitors makes that big a difference.
 
Its all about knowing what you're hearing and having the skills to work around anything that doesnt translate in the real world. ANY monitor will do if you follow up your mixes on several 'other' systems. For the Home Studio Moguls this means getting out of the basement and listening. Fletchers' post was dead on. I, too, go to the pro-audio stores and geek about for an hour listening on really high-end systems. Most of these stores have a really good room for their 10K+ systems. If it sounds good there, you're probably doing something right and no one will ever know if you sold out to the Eastern Equipment Devils.....
 
Lt. Bob said:
I've had decent results with most of the Behringer stuff I've tried.
I couldn't care less about their history or, for that matter, Bob
Mackies' history.

That being said, for monitors I'd have to go with the Mackies.
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I've been that way about equipment. If it works then it's great.
If it doesn't then it's el stinko mucho!

I had a student that used a Behringer EQ to roll off some
frequencies on his bass (acoustic) during live gigs.
 
I actually bought a buncha jewel lights in every imaginable color ...... purple ..... green ..... blue ..... peach ...... about a dozen of them.

I just change them out on my amps as the mood takes me.

Then I got my Mesa Mark V and it has some kinda unremovable square light and I'm stuck with the color they picked ................ bastards!


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I've never had a problem with Behringer, I think it's the stuff that was built 5 years ago you need to worry about, At least that's what I've heard. But as far as monitors go, I would stay away from the powered Behringer monitors, I've seen alot of press that the power amps die quickly. I don't know if it's from overheating from lack of venting or because they're just no good, but it was enough for me not to buy a set.
 
stevieb said:
I'm not going to address the actual question, either, having no experience with either model of monitors (and really, unless you have used at least one or the other, do you have any business say one might be better than the other?) but I think it is a crying shame that Mackie has gone the Behri route. Not very long ago- I am talking less than a decade, I think, Mackie gear was made in the USA. Personally, I won't touch a Mackie piece that is from China- I'm even more like to use a piece of Behri gear. I was further distressed to learn that Peavey went to China for manufacturing of much of their line a few years ago, too. I would think that distinction is important to lots of other people.

IMHO, Mackie was at least two notches up from Behringer, and Peavey was better, too, until they went to China for cheap. Now, they are all just the same. A sad, sad situation.
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Peavey equipment is like toy gear now. I saw some of the mixing boards they make now and the knobs are made so cheap that if you accidently knocked into one of them they'd likely snap off, and the faders are very un even feeling when you slide them. Behringer is made much better than Peavey now.
 
I had the same problem, I was in between b2031a monitors and yamaha hs50m monitors. This is what I came up with, buy whatever you want and don't listen to anyone on here. Either way, you are gonna have to learn your monitors. People are gonna hate Behringer, I don't know why. Behringer maybe shit, but you know what, for the price of those monitors, I can replace them three times over if they crap out and still not spend as much as some of those monitors out there individually. I had Event BAS20/20's, and got rid of them and went with the "B-Words". I have not had any problems with behringer gear in the past. It really comes down to your budget, your personal preferences, your taste, go to guitar center, hook them up, listen to what tickles your pickle. Then dive in head first.
 
I started with the Behringers. I now use KRK's 8's and 5's but still have the Behringers. They are 4 years old and still sound great. They were just a tad Bass heavy in my control room. But like any monitor you will have a learning curve as to how it sounds in your mixing room. I have no problem recommending the Truths's. They sound great and can get very loud. I use them as my live room monitors, to pipe mixes into that area. Buy them !!!!!!
 
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