please help...monitor dilemma and no space!

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hi everybody

ok heres the story,ive been recording/mixing for 15 years or so...then i got pissed off and sold all my gear 18 months ago....but i recently got back into it....

i cant help myself!

ok here's the problem...iv'e now only got a 77cm desk space in a tiny cupboard including my 19 inch monitor,which leaves about 16 cm either side...mounted in corners
i would be happy with a 19 cm wide monitor as ive got wall mounts which increases the possible width slightly,a front ported monitor is preferable but rear ported is cool if i can dampen it down with a cut (or a sock)

right now im using behringer monitor 1cs which quite frankly are a bit shit but i'm getting by...
i write pop music for publishers so the mixes have to be good but not release quality,but i want to enjoy my writing and have fun
i want really transparent monitors..with not overpowering hyped bass
i have no shop to hear any monitors where i live so here's my shortlist from the hours of trawling the net..

my budget is 300 gbp

mackie mr 5
behringer 1030a
krk rp5g2
fostex pm 0.4 or 0.5s(had the pm 0.5s,liked them but would prefer a change)
yamaha hs50m (had ns10s not a huge fan)
alesis 520

ive got the cash now and its starting to do my head in......:mad:


please help!
 
i guess it was just years of frustration,i kinda lost my passion for it and the stuff i was producing was crap,also i did some dance remixes which had to be release quality and i wasn't happy with them ,i spent too long fixing stupid little eq's and not enough time on the tunes ..the label didn't like them and i hit a depression....
so i thought,why am i putting myself through this again and i gave up...and to make sure i didnt get back into it again i sold all my gear.
but that 18 months off has been great...i know what i want to do now
,im writing with my old partner again and we have access to exellent session vocalists who just take a 3rd of the song royalties instead of cash,
i write the instrumental ,my partner writes the lyrics,session vocalist records the lyrics and sends me the vocals back and i mix it , all done over the internet
so i'm happy again :)
 
No meaningful help here, but I did pick up a set of demo Yamaha HS50M a few months ago at the local Guitar Center for cheap.

I use them as a second set of monitors to "acid test" a mix - it's been ages since I heard NS10s, but I can say that the HS50s are more versatile - you can make them flatter with adjustments (but I won't do that because of how I'm using them) - I can't say whether they can exactly emulate a NS10 - I'm thinking no.

If you can get a good price on them, I think they're a good value.
 
thanks for that man,you were reading my mind
i read that you can switch a -2db in the midrange to make them behave more like normal monitors,the ns10s harshness annoyed me after a few hours.
the hs50s are pretty much top of my list ,but right now im bidding on a pair of genelec 8020s on ebay,
if i dont win(6 days to go)i think i will go with the yamahas
:)
any thoughts on the 8020s?

they are the right size and freq response for my tiny setup just like the yamahas
 
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