Using monitors as computer speakers

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Hey guys,

I got a stupid question. Is there anyway you can use your studio monitors to double them as computer speakers? Like to play mp3's or songs on itunes.

I have a pair of Mackie Hr824's and am running Windows XP if that helps any.
 
MaChMa said:
Hey guys,

I got a stupid question. Is there anyway you can use your studio monitors to double them as computer speakers? Like to play mp3's or songs on itunes.

I have a pair of Mackie Hr824's and am running Windows XP if that helps any.
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Yes.

But it won't sound too good.
 
Sure you can, and depending on the source and music, they will sound awesome. You get the true sound of the recording. I use my nearfields for everything. Put on Hotel California live and you will hear it like it was meant to be heard!

I would need to know what your setup is. Are you using an interface?
 
I have a MR816x interface connecting to my Mackie HR824's. I also have some Audio Technica ATH-M50's as an out as well.

I would think you would have to change windows XP soundcard to using the interface instead of the built in soundcard, but I'm not quite sure how to do that.
 
My office set up: Audio sound card stereo outs to stereo amplifier line ins to JBL 4401's. Works fine. I check mixes on this rig all the time.
 
guitaristic said:
Yes.

But it won't sound too good.
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I found this to be the opposite. Sure, I don't have the uber bass response of my Creative 5.1 setup, but generally music sounds the best on my monitors. I guess if I actually had a true hi-fi setup I'd have a different opinion, but at the moment my monitors are my best playback speakers, even for casual listening.
 
I do this with my monitors and it sounds great. I just do some custom EQ in iTunes so it doesn't sound so flat when I'm not mixing.
 
I just tried it and it worked...but the singers voice gets lost in the mix? Does that happen to anyone else?
 
I could use my monitors, but... a pair of $600 Behringer Truths vs. the $4K Cambridge Audio / Monitor Audio system I just bought....

Not really a competition...

Besides, I'd have to move them and they're heavy as shit..
 
guitaristic said:
Yes.

But it won't sound too good.
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WHAT?! LOL.

Of course they'll sound good. Unless your perception of 'good' is a Bose system with a frequency response that looks like the side view of a trampoline with a fat kid sitting in the center.
 
MaChMa said:
I just tried it and it worked...but the singers voice gets lost in the mix? Does that happen to anyone else?
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Does this happen with lots of different music or just one in particular? Most likely it is the recording or eq settings you have on playback, not the monitors.
 
He didn't mix them up. He just thinks that because monitors are flat, it "won't sound too good".
 
austinm08 said:
He didn't mix them up. He just thinks that because monitors are flat, it "won't sound too good".
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After listening to a variety of Genelec/Adam/Dynaudio/KRK/Yamaha etc. monitor setups, I can honestly say the only ones I wasn't blown away by were the NS-10s. I just didn't like them, too harsh. The rest are superb. A perfect balance of frequencies, extreme clarity and space, the ultimate listening experience. It really opens your eyes. Nowadays, I'm eq'ing my PC speakers, and leaving my KRK Rokits flat. It's not just an "engineer" or "audiophile" thing either, everyone who's heard them agrees.
 
philbagg said:
After listening to a variety of Genelec/Adam/Dynaudio/KRK/Yamaha etc. monitor setups, I can honestly say the only ones I wasn't blown away by were the NS-10s. I just didn't like them, too harsh. The rest are superb. A perfect balance of frequencies, extreme clarity and space, the ultimate listening experience. It really opens your eyes. Nowadays, I'm eq'ing my PC speakers, and leaving my KRK Rokits flat. It's not just an "engineer" or "audiophile" thing either, everyone who's heard them agrees.
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Are you telling me or the other guy? lol.

I'd love to get myself a pair of nice monitors. Just don't have the money, yet.
 
MaChMa said:
I just tried it and it worked...but the singers voice gets lost in the mix? Does that happen to anyone else?
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What are you listening to? It might be an indicator that the mix is less than stellar, or that your room isn't so great as a listening environment.
 
austinm08 said:
Are you telling me or the other guy? lol.

I'd love to get myself a pair of nice monitors. Just don't have the money, yet.
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It was more of a general announcement ;)

If money's an issue and you want great monitors, I'd swear by the KRK RP5's.

Jesus I sound like a salesman.
 
philbagg said:
After listening to a variety of Genelec/Adam/Dynaudio/KRK/Yamaha etc. monitor setups, I can honestly say the only ones I wasn't blown away by were the NS-10s..
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I always thought that was the point of NS-10s... if you could make your mix sound good on them, you knew you were on a winner...

or something like that... I've never actually heard them! :laughings:
 
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