Mixing monitors cheap! Yamaha MSP10 pair

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These were $1000 each new, 8 inch woofer with 100 watts I think, titanium tweet has 70 watts. They mix well. Good shape, well broke in, not abused, sound good.
I bought both of mine at a reduced price (B-stock from the factory) because of cosmetics. One has a scratch on the front (not on the speaker, just the box) that is almost invisible. Can barely see it. The other has a dent on the side. I will take pictures if anyone requires them. The cosmetics do not affect the sound and basically just make these speakers a lot more affordable.
Lots of power, good bass being 8 inch.

I THINK for the pair I ended up paying out $1200. I'll take $560 or best offer, and half shipping (these are heavy buggers but DHL is cheap)

I plan to get into a pair of ADAM SC3 soon. :)

Will consider some trades but make it good before you ask. Buy them and love them properly.

Peace
Paul
 
hey tubedude,

okay it's been some time that you sold these babies...
But since I'm in the situation of buying them, I thought I may ask, why
you sold them.

I heard them at my musicshop and compared them to :

Event 2020
Genelec 8040 APM
KRK V6
Dynaudio BM5
Yamaha HS80M
Alesis M1 Active


I really found them to be sounding the best.
But I'm a bit unsure, since I didn't have the opportunity to compare them
with some ADAMs.

Cheers,

Stevie
 
I guess just a quick caveat here. While it is nice if monitors sound "good", it is more important they sound accurate. You can spend a lot of money getting speakers that sound good in your studio but do not transfer that "goodness" to other systems. Especially since a whole bunch of your listeners to the final product will be doing so in their car on crap systems.
 
Big Kenny said:
I guess just a quick caveat here. While it is nice if monitors sound "good", it is more important they sound accurate. You can spend a lot of money getting speakers that sound good in your studio but do not transfer that "goodness" to other systems. Especially since a whole bunch of your listeners to the final product will be doing so in their car on crap systems.
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Yep, you're completely right. Maybe I should have written:
The speakers sounded most linear to me.
I took a lot of material from my projects (Orchestra, Funk, HipHop, Pop, World...) and listened to it on all speakers.

The Genelecs 8040APM were way too bassy, awful sound. The bass-area
was absolutely over-emphasized. We even tried to tweak the knobs at the back of the speakers with no real change IMHO.

The KRK V6 were the complete opposite. Very little power at the bottom end.
Same for the Dynaudio BM5.
The Yamaha HS80M were a bit similar to the MSP-10 but they sounded a bit cheaper.

The Event 2020 and the Alesis M1 Active did some terrible job when I played a HipHop tune on them. The HiHats, Snares and Shakers showed the ugly face of the highs and mids. Really awful.

At the end, only the MSP-10s showed a very linear behaviour in all musicstyles. Some styles asolutely revealed the weakness of some speakers.
But then again, I couldnt compare the speakers to some ADAMs, KRK V8, and other higher priced speakers. That fact didn't really satisfy me.
So I'm still a bit clueless if I missed the best part...


Cheers,

Stevie
 
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