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Originally posted by Evan Almae Bump for everyone who has to start a thread on monitor speakers!

haha thanks ... now we won't have all the new threads

very informative posts guys. Just a quick question. I have JBL S312II speakers. I'm no sound engineer, so how do they rate? If they're good, then alright perfect, and if they're crap don't be afraid to say so.

thanks.

http://www.onecall.com/PID_15090.htm

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Originally posted by failsafe very informative posts guys. Just a quick question. I have JBL S312II speakers. I'm no sound engineer, so how do they rate? If they're good, then alright perfect, and if they're crap don't be afraid to say so. thanks. http://www.onecall.com/PID_15090.htm

First off, I have not heard these speakers though when I was speaker shopping last year I looked hard at these; if I had decided on floor standing 3 ways I probably would have got these.

Now the good news is that these are quite decent speakers from what I hear. They are supposed to be much better then the similar speakers in their cheaper Northridge (or whatever it is called) line. (I am not sure about this fact as this was last year when I was looking, I may have the two lines switched) From the spec sheet the sensitivity looks decent are a really good sign is they tell you it is at 1 W at 1 M which is the standard but shady companies don't use it to make their speakers look better on paper.

The spec that I am mainly concerned with is the frequency response 35Hz-20KHz is decent (human hearing is generally considered to be about 20Hz-20Khz) but the fact that they say it is +/- 3dB means it could be varying all over the place plus or minus 3 dB over that range. That would not be considered very flat by most serious audio types.

In the end it depends on what you are using them for and if you like the sound. I suppose most people here might say that if you are producing or really serius about DJing you might want to invest in some reference monitors. It all depends.

In the end I decided against getting them only because I discovered that these days a good sub with bookshelfs can be a truly excellent setup. I decided to go with a pair of modified BIC America DV-62si (they look much better IRL than in the pic) powered by an AudioSource AmpOne power amp. I am like what I ended up with. I am planing on getting a sub in the near future to round it all out (someone on the board pointed me towards on awsome kit for $350 that I think I am going to get).


For more comments on these speakers, checkout the AudioReview.com review.

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Last edited by auujay on Nov-24-2003 at 17:38

yeahh ill bump this one up incase theres another monitor thread.
im interested for maybe a future purchase of a pair of monitors.

I recently bought myself a pair of Event TR8 monitors and was shopping for monitors under $500. I went to Guitar Center and listened to the ones they had there...I think there were the Event TR6 & TR8, M-Audio SP8, and the Alesis M1. I had them play some Chemical Brothers and was really impressed with the TR8's. The Alesis didn't really knock my socks off. After comparing the TR8's with the SP8's, I just liked the TR8's more...and those are what I got. Although if you have the money, the Mackie 624's are much clearer sounding...I just couldn't find it within me to cough up close to $500 PER speaker.

Needless to say, as someone mentioned earlier, every ear is different so it's all up to you.

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i was recording yesterday on a pair of tannoy monitors and theres one thing that i noticed: i think that its almost so flat that i cant really hear the mids. its boarderline all bass and treble to my ears compared the the klipsch speakers that i use for my monitors.

i do agree that monitors need to be acurate and flat becuase people need to hear the correct notes and equalize properly. for my personal mixing purposes, however... i always end up having each song on a flat eq beucase i tend to try not to mess with the songs that much as to record the orginial as well as possible. it seems like the klipsch warmth really brings out the mids that, espacially on the higher mids, articulate the sound alot better. as clear as the tannoys were i wanted to hear more.

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Originally posted by DjJade i was recording yesterday on a pair of tannoy monitors and theres one thing that i noticed: i think that its almost so flat that i cant really hear the mids. its boarderline all bass and treble to my ears compared the the klipsch speakers that i use for my monitors. i do agree that monitors need to be acurate and flat becuase people need to hear the correct notes and equalize properly. for my personal mixing purposes, however... i always end up having each song on a flat eq beucase i tend to try not to mess with the songs that much as to record the orginial as well as possible. it seems like the klipsch warmth really brings out the mids that, espacially on the higher mids, articulate the sound alot better. as clear as the tannoys were i wanted to hear more.

Klipsch...warm?

Dude... what are you smoking? practically no one calls Klipsch warm... "strident", maybe, but warm? O_o You need to go get some speakers that are known for being warm, lol...

well i..and many other people call my speakers warm. almost every review you can find on the rb5/rsw12 speakers will talk about how warm they are. do you even own a pair? even then... i think they are deliciously warm in my opinion beucase thats what i hear and thats what i like about my speakers.

you may have lots of experience and i dont doubt what you say is true but you are not the foremost authority in everything and your ears are not the ones by which the world should base their opinions on. this is the whole point of a forum so please...dont tell me what my speakers are supposed to sound like to me.

Maybe you're right, I dunno... but few call Klipsch speakers warm, that's all... I'll have to double check to make sure. I'm not an authority on Klipsch speakers, but I'll dig around and see what I can find, k?