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| quote: | Originally posted by echosystm
listening to reviews is a sure fire way to be dissapointed in what you buy. example: krk rp5/6/8s get good reviews, but if I bought them I would probably come home and cry when I realise how shit house they are. |
I don't know why KRK Rokits get good reviews. I know I hated the RP-8 when I gave it a listen. But then, of the monitors I auditioned -they all sounded different. Dramatically so. Even monitors in the same price bracket.
I mean the ADAM P11as sound totally different to Dynaudio BM5as and you know what? I honestly don't know which is supposed to be more 'true' or which is better. They just sound different. I ended up buying Dynaudio BM5as but sometimes I kind of wish I bought the P11as instead. And vice versa.
Terms like 'flat frequency response' are bullshit, as it will never be flat in the room you are going to monitor in - which is probably going to have less than ideal acoustics and is more than likely your bedroom. It also depends on listening position. My BM5as sound totally different if I move my head a couple of inches to the left or right whilst monitoring for gawds sake.
The only advice you should heed is this:
1) It doesn't matter what speakers you get. The point is you pick a pair, and listen to them very very closely. After several months you will gradually become used to how they sound, in what frequency ranges they are deficient. You will get used to certain finnicky things like keeping your head still when you monitor. And the more professionally produced tracks you listen to and reference from, the more you will learn about what you can and can't get away with on your monitors.
Because of my ongoing problems with my BM5as I have spent several months monitoring on the free headphones you get with the guild wars special edition. These headphones suck. But there are things you can hear on them that my BM5as can't reproduce. And vice versa. So I constantly switch between the two as I'm working and somewhere in between the 2 different sounds, is the one I want. Have as many sound systems around you as possible and make it easy to switch between them because its the only way you will ever get a 'true' picture of the mixes you are making.
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