sonusman
Banned
I have been a big fan of my Event 20/20 passive monitors for over 4 years now. I still really love them and won't get rid of them.
BUT!!! A new kid has moved into my monitor 'hood' here!
http://www.sundholm-acoustics.com/SL80.htm
I have been using these Sundholms for a bunch of work recently and found that I could trust them after only needing to hear just a bit of music through them.
Just two days ago I mastered a Rap CD using these monitors with NO subwoofer. While the bass wasn't like what you would hear in a car or club sound system with a sub woofer, I still found that I could place the low end quite well. The client, the studio owner, and I were very happy with the low end on this recent job, and I used the Sundholmes exclusively to master.
I still think that if you are on a budget that the Event 20/20's are an excellent monitor to purchase. I would say they are about as good as you can possibly get in the "budget" price range.
But if you are looking in the $1000US price range for near field monitors, the Sundholm SL 8.0 would get my full endorsement! Compared to all Genelec's, these monitors have an much more accurate midrange and are very true in the high end.
I found that I could monitor with them for several hours without ear fatique (I took about 7 hours to do the eq and compression on 21 songs for that Rap CD I just mastered). I was actually quite surprised that what I heard after 12 hours on working on this CD that the sound was the same to my ears as it was in the first hour! If you have ever done marathon mixing/mastering like this, you will know that after around 5 or 6 hours that your ears start getting very sensitive to upper mids. I just didn't find this to be the case with the Sundholms.
So there it is, my full endorsement of these excellent near field monitors.
By the way, Sundholm Acoustics is one of the ex-owners of Sunn Amplifiers. There is a long history behind this company of excellent products.
Ed
BUT!!! A new kid has moved into my monitor 'hood' here!
http://www.sundholm-acoustics.com/SL80.htm
I have been using these Sundholms for a bunch of work recently and found that I could trust them after only needing to hear just a bit of music through them.
Just two days ago I mastered a Rap CD using these monitors with NO subwoofer. While the bass wasn't like what you would hear in a car or club sound system with a sub woofer, I still found that I could place the low end quite well. The client, the studio owner, and I were very happy with the low end on this recent job, and I used the Sundholmes exclusively to master.
I still think that if you are on a budget that the Event 20/20's are an excellent monitor to purchase. I would say they are about as good as you can possibly get in the "budget" price range.
But if you are looking in the $1000US price range for near field monitors, the Sundholm SL 8.0 would get my full endorsement! Compared to all Genelec's, these monitors have an much more accurate midrange and are very true in the high end.
I found that I could monitor with them for several hours without ear fatique (I took about 7 hours to do the eq and compression on 21 songs for that Rap CD I just mastered). I was actually quite surprised that what I heard after 12 hours on working on this CD that the sound was the same to my ears as it was in the first hour! If you have ever done marathon mixing/mastering like this, you will know that after around 5 or 6 hours that your ears start getting very sensitive to upper mids. I just didn't find this to be the case with the Sundholms.
So there it is, my full endorsement of these excellent near field monitors.
By the way, Sundholm Acoustics is one of the ex-owners of Sunn Amplifiers. There is a long history behind this company of excellent products.
Ed
Bruce, you would be blown away with these monitors. I just cannot believe how pure the sound is on them!!! The more I use them the more I fall in love with them. The accuracy is just amazing.
I will post the results when I get to it.
