Monitors? No Monitors? The Speakers That CAME with Your Computer?!!!

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Your monitor situation...

  • I bought real monitors you prick, how dare you confront me?!

    Votes: 229 62.6%

  • I use some sort of jerry-rigged system, be it pc speakers, etc

    Votes: 68 18.6%

  • I use headphones! haha

    Votes: 56 15.3%

  • I plead the 5th

    Votes: 13 3.6%
  • Total voters
    366
Monitor set up

For primary listening while mixing I use Yamaha HSM50s.. In my opinion, if you use anything with a woofer bigger than 6inch for nearfield listening, you're going to get a very bass-swayed sound, so you'll end up (in most cases) with a mix that lacks a nice tight bass-end.

I use KRK RP8s (2nd gen) for secondary listening, spaced very wide from my mixing desk, usually used for listening to mixes while I sit on the sofa at the back of the control room. I like the bass on those speakers for listening, they are in no way accurate, but if you learn the sound that Rockit monitors produce then you quickly learn when a mix will translate well.

I think i might purchase some Genelecs next. Not sure though, if anybody has quick suggestions for some true-sound monitors let me know!
 
I personally use KRK rokit 5s. Cheap, accurate, and sexy as all hell :p
 
I swear it feels like this thread is a sticky. Every time I come here, this thread is at the top.

In summary:
"My monitors have a bigger dick than your monitors" to paraphrase Carlin :D
 
Some of you may laugh at this, but I have a set of Bose Companion 2s hooked up to mine. I got a deal on them at a Bose outlet and tried them on my Roland VS 1824 DAW and never went back. The bass is a little boomy on them so I'm always sure to back it off in my mix and it usually comes out right. I primarily work with bluegrass so this tends to work well for me since the mixes aren't complicates and the bass is mostly your acoustic bass. I always test my mixes on a couple sets of car speakers and a home CD player too just to be sure.

I made the mistake of buying a set of Behringer speakers which they "pasted the words studio monitor onto" as someone said in another post. Those things are crap and sound best when in the "off" position.

I hope to be able to afford good monitors one day. Heck, i'd also like to afford some room treatment and a decent control room. Or even a house that would have the space for that. For now, the Bose serve me well.
 
I use M-audio Studiophile AV40's.... are those good? They sound good to me!:spank:
 
I like the AV40s very affordable too. No one has mentioned that the amplifier(s) also matters. Most computer speaker systems and alot of "stereos" have compressors in the amplifier stage. This reaks havoc when your adjusting levels.
 
I get by with an old pair of M-Audio SP5B's and an M-Audio SBX subwoofer. I consider them unusable without the sub. Yeah, they're cheap, but I understand them.-Richie
 
I use a pair of KRK Rokit 6 G2's as my monitors, and also listen to my mixes through a ghetto blaster, bookshelf hifi, car stereo, LG 5.1 Sound system and my dad's PA (McGregor MYTEK 210 System through a [either] 1000W or 1200W Behringer Amplifier) if I ever get the chance to set it up properly.
 
just to make a point it doesn't matter what speakers you use as monitors just as long as you know them and their sound. for example engineer juan covas monitors everything with a pair of boom box speakers from the 80's that he still uses to this day. he even used them to monitor marc anthony's album that had the song Contra La Corriente of which juan received a grammy for.
 
DENNON MU301zdhbnganlgbnabng;bnj bla. bookshelf!

but thats my reference mostly use DT100's
 
I sent this messabe to Bryston power amps:

Hi Ken,

Sorry, we do not have any such amplifiers at Bryston. There is a website called Audiogon, think maybe that might help you.

Kindest Regards,
Brian...

From: nitrochrome@juno.com [mailto:nitrochrome@juno.com]
Sent: Mon 1/10/2011 4:00 PM
To: Bryston Canadian Service
Subject: vintage?

Hi.

I was wondering if you had any old vintage power amp cases that you might have lying around in the factory? Any rackmount case from the 70's or 80's would be nice. I have seen ones with the chrome handles on the front. I was also wondering when you started making them. I live in Toronto. I might be able to pick them up. I understand you are in Peterborough? The difficulty with buying a unit on ebay is that they are heavy and the shipping is expensive. I would like to onw a bryston power amp, but I am a home studio owner and mostly just a hobbyist. I got some yamaha NS-10m's and I was told the Bryston power amps are the best for the passive monitors. All the newer monitors are active biamped, but I want the 'industry standard' that has been typical for the last twenty years. I would be very happy if I could find some older model. I have been looking for over a year.
 
real ones, and my GFs car stereo, and a boom box, and assorted headphones. The idea is that it has to sound okay even on a crap sound system.
 
I don't have "real" monitors. I use a vintage hi-fi amp and speakers. I figure they have to be better than any "monitors" I can afford at the moment.
 
noisewreck said:
I swear it feels like this thread is a sticky. Every time I come here, this thread is at the top.
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Not to mention that most of the speakers in existence when this thread started four and a half years ago aren't even made anymore, nor that many of us have changed one or two time since this thread was originally started, rendering the poll results even more useless every day.

It would be nice if they set up the poll rules so that an expiration date *had* to be set on poll threads.

G.
 
I don't even vote in the polls most of the time. I consider them an adjunct to the discussion.
 
I used to test my stuff on a pair of Radio Shack Mach II's from the 1980's. Anyone remember them? Not so great for many styles, but I loved shaking the house with them when I was about ten years-old. :)

When I got more serious about sound, I had a small single-ended triode tube amp, into a pair of Klipsch KSB3.1 bookshelf speakers.

Took some courses, learned a little more about mixing/mastering, and now use:

Adam A7-X's, coming straight out of a Mytek Stereo 96 DAC.

What I really need to do is acoustically treat my room though, before worrying about anything else in the signal chain. I don't see any equipment upgrades for awhile now.

If I upgrade the monitors, it will most likely be to something with a closed box design, rather than ported.
 
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