I tell you what, when you save up enough money send me you bank details - I know a really good investment opportunity in Nigeria, from a Lawyer whose client has $25m in a bank but can't get it out of the country. They will deposit the money in your account and give you a 10% cut when they retrieve it.

Sounds good?

OK, maybe you're better off just blowing it on another synth then.

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Originally posted by flutlicht junky Lol im not a tool I know that one monitor is effectively useless however if you don't have enough money to stretch to a good set you can buy one and buy another a bit later. When ever I save up enough money i usually find it hard to resisr not spending it on a synth or vsti even though I know i need monitors. At least this way i forces me to save for the other one lol!

yeah i did that for awhile, but then i realized how important your signal chain is. Good DI's good outboard comps/eq's good AD/DA's . I love my genelecs, prolly the best thing for my music since i started. I stopped the synth lust

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Originally posted by DJ RANN I tell you what, when you save up enough money send me you bank details - I know a really good investment opportunity in Nigeria, from a Lawyer whose client has $25m in a bank but can't get it out of the country. They will deposit the money in your account and give you a 10% cut when they retrieve it. Sounds good? OK, maybe you're better off just blowing it on another synth then.

wow so how much you need?? LOL! Another synth is always good esp when it wil be a Virus C but yeah I really need to get monitors, shocking not got already really.

Just need to find a place where i can hear ALP5 or HR624 now

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Use headphones to listen to your music and dont use them for monitoring.
Monitors are made for monitoring audio and headphones are not.
Save up for a pair of decent monitors and dont monitor with just one becouse you wont hear the stereo fieldand it will be dam hard and depressing.
Save up fro a pair :-)

flutlicht, check out GAK in Brighton, shouldn't be too far from you.

Or if you come up to London, go to Turnkey, they have virtually every brand of monitor on demo. Phone them first to make sure they've got em on dem though.

Also, Turnkey pricebeat, which means if you see them anywhere cheaper (which I doubt anyway), they have to beat the price.

what about these ?


Alesis M1 520
Samson Resolv 65A

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Originally posted by DJ RANN flutlicht, check out GAK in Brighton, shouldn't be too far from you. Or if you come up to London, go to Turnkey, they have virtually every brand of monitor on demo. Phone them first to make sure they've got em on dem though. Also, Turnkey pricebeat, which means if you see them anywhere cheaper (which I doubt anyway), they have to beat the price.

yEAH YEAH good suggestion dude, i KNOW TURNKEY - TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD YEAH?

I'm either after KRK V6 series 2, MR624, HS80m or ALP5.

I know it's a selection, but i want to hear the best of the price range not what everyone says is the best.

Personally i reckon the hs80m are gonna be a good buy and the V6 a surprise lol

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Yup, Tottenham Court Road.

The KRK's are nice but I don't think they have them on demo.
The event ALP 5 and Yama's are about the same quality - good but nothing incredible.

I'm a devout Mackie fan and the 624's are amazing for a 6" driver. I think for dance music they are spot-on

However, whatever you do, don't listen to the Mackie HR824's otherwise you'll be crying when you leave the shop because you didn't have enough money to buy them.

Mane, the M1's in my opinion aren't great - a lot of people on this forum seem to rate them but I find them really coloured and inancurate.
The resolve's are OK but not great again have a colouration in the lower mid, which seems to plague speakers at this price range.

Shame about the V6s as they are the ones I most wanted to hear.

What do you think about the HS80M and ALP5, have you demo'd them?

I do like the idea of the Mackies but space in my studio is tight and I'll have to locate the speakers near a wall and they have a 'rear firing radiator?' for bass so I'm not sure if they would be ideal.

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Originally posted by flutlicht junky Shame about the V6s as they are the ones I most wanted to hear. What do you think about the HS80M and ALP5, have you demo'd them? I do like the idea of the Mackies but space in my studio is tight and I'll have to locate the speakers near a wall and they have a 'rear firing radiator?' for bass so I'm not sure if they would be ideal.

If your space is tight, you should really check out the Adam A7, better than everything is this priceleague. If I would start again now, they would be definatly my first pick. They are really tools not just toys. Well you should like the Ribbon tweeter that's all.

I wouldn't even touch the big Smackies, as I don't understand this whole rave about them at all. Muddy lows, scooped mids and weird highs. The smaller ones are definatly better but nothing agaist the Adams.

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