honestly man if you know your current monitors and your mixes are coming out good on them don't go buy new ones. It's a MINIMUM of 6 mos-1yr before you know your monitors (honestly i'd even be willing to bet longer if you're not doing 20hrs a week or more in front of them). there are absolutely monitors much better, in terms of specs then the ones you have but your budget puts you nearly right back where you started but now you're on a different brand that sound different that probably aren't much more accurate than what you already have.

so for the people that don't want to read all that, unless you're ready to pay into the next tier (probably $1,500+) stick with what you have because you already know it and that's half the battle.

i would if i knew it wouldn't be a huge pain in the butt to get them repaired. i believe they want the original receipt/invoice or something. supposing i was willing to readjust my ears to new monitors, i wonder if there was anything in that price range. i did use those monitors at least like 1-6 hours a day for 2 years so i like your advice. they're simply the best monitors for the price. i'm not sure i am worried monitors changing my overall sound, but anything can happen. maybe it could improve it. i am about 95% to where i want to be as a dance music producer and it's been exciting the past year really polishing up my sound, so who knows. =] thanks again.

If you have the original bill, just photoshop the date so that you are still within your warranty. I've done that a few times.

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Actually they are S5s, so a good consideration would be to just go with the S8s I suppose. Any extra cash I can use to beef up the production rig. Oh and... no thanks to fraud. Not worth it for $200 or whatever. Also I wouldn't admit guilt to things like that online. Just sayin'.

Well be a sucker and get stuck with a defective product and have to spend money because the particular model you got did not last as long as they are supposed to. I would say fraud is kinda the wrong word to use. Little white lies never hurt anyone.

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One of them was already replaced under warranty. The other one I flat out dropped and it stopped working. So thanks for the advice anyway.

So far I'm gonna have to check out the Mackie MR8s, the Tapco S8s are discontinued and even though I'm sure I could get ahold of them the MR8s are the official "replacement". They look pretty sweet, too. Without going into a whole new $1500 price range, these look like a good catch.

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/MR8

RANN told me the HS80s are supposed to be pretty good

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I have some Mackie MR8s and they are perfect

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i will continue to recommend genelec and dynaudio, maybe also focal cms. in the lowest range tannoys and JBLs. theres tons of threads here just do a search for monitors.

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Originally posted by Kenny Rogers i will continue to recommend genelec and dynaudio, maybe also focal cms. in the lowest range tannoys and JBLs. theres tons of threads here just do a search for monitors.

+1, but seriously you have to have search blindness to be starting a thread on this.

The same recommendations have come up again and again. Just search the word "monitors" in the last 6 months on the search option and you'll find everything you could possibly need to make a decision.

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Originally posted by tehlord RANN told me the HS80s are supposed to be pretty good

Zoooooooom function

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Originally posted by tehlord RANN told me the HS80s are supposed to be pretty good

+2.

I love mine!