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| quote: | Originally posted by echosystm
Behringer's are shocking. Alesis are far too bass heavy; to the point where i've seen people stuffing wads of foam into all four bass ports just to get it to stfu. :P
In this price range it pretty much comes down to RP5s or ALP5s. Both are OK monitors, but don't expect them to be totally awesome. RP5s have better bass, ALP5s have better overall clarity. Just about anyone who has put them side by side will agree.
It's up to you which you would prefer.
That said, I think you should save up and get something better. 5" is not enough. Dance music relies heavily on good bass response. I would aim for RP8s or TR6s. In my oppinion TR6s blow any other budget monitors out of the water, although I'm yet to hear Rubicons!
THEN AGAIN, Jonas Steur uses Behringers, BT uses crappy BX5s, alot of Ian van Dahl stuff was mixed on Alesis M1s, and Airbase used shit house consumer headphones. Maybe we're all looking into this a bit much? At the end of the day, it's what you train your ears for that counts. Someone going from RP6s to HR824s will not be able to mix as well on the HRs despite the $X,000 price difference; they're not used to it. With that in mind, get the clearest ones (TO YOUR EARS) you can afford, learn them inside out, and hang on to them.
I don't own any of these monitors, so I'm not biased at all :P
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Well I'll say something I always say (and won't ever stop):
It's NOT the music / gear that makes the producer good, it's the producer that makes the music / gear great.
We all got a pair of something which got the highest value of all and I'm talking about our ears.
The ear can adjust it self to basicly any monitor/speaker/headphone/etc' with time. Once adjusted to it, your mix will sound good because you know how it should be like.
I've seen many producers that work with shit equip' though produce great music and the opposite aswell, that's why I never judge by the look of your place and the gear you got cause in the end the only thing that really matters is the ears since without them no monitor, headphone, spectrum, acoustics or anything else will help you produce.
So anyhow what I wanted to say also is that before I bought my monitors I tried over 25 brands of monitors and I still keep on trying. Monitors made by ESI, Samson, Tannoy, Alessis, KRK, Yamaha, Adam, Event, Mackie, Genelec, Dynaudio and many more. I've heard shit and I've heard amazing stuff, only so I could get the right decision and compair them to something better.
And one more thing, My comment about the behringer (that I've yet to try) is only from other people reviews. I've heard only bad stuff about it and bad stuff coming out of it. low metrial quality, low sound quality, and all because it's a low cost monitor.
If I had to get something then I'd go with a monitor like the OLD Tannoy Reveal or Roland (although I didn't like them much but I prefer them more over the other stuff since KRK mostly got bad reviews, M-Audio I don't like at all (lot's of reasons) and alessis got far too much bass on those 2 products.)
But anyhow, what I really got to tell you is take a good cd with tracks that you like and stuff you want to make and listen to it on cheap and expensive monitors so you could get the idea of how far it is from flat sound and then deicide what you really like.
I made a little mess but I think you'll understand me.
P.S.
I didn't like the HS80M, they don't give a sharp image (was like that tweeter was overwhelmed by the mid-sub speaker) and they aren't that strong (in amp terms). When I tried them out they were vibrating like .... on a low volume and I was scared to see how much will they distort when pushed too loud. Though I've heard many people liking them so that's only my opinion.
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Last edited by 3rd Signal on Jan-10-2007 at 19:03
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