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| quote: | Originally posted by John Doe
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. |
.....and that is why you are jedi in training, young padmae.
Nearly everyone I have ever known that has bought the Mackies doesn't just think they are nice, they love them.
Echo is right - it's about translation. The mackies for instance have a really wide sweet spot so your stereo image might sound really spread but when played on a say a standard hifi, your mix can sound quite narrow. Knowing this, means you should be aware to spread your mix wider than usual and then it will sound correctly spread. The mackies are overall very good speakers, and once you "know" them, you can produce really superb results. The reason people rave about them is that onced tuned to your room and translation requirements, they are hard to beat.
The adams are good but suffer badly from over pronounced treble due to the ribbon tweeter, so again they are by no means perfect monitors.
Yama NS10's were popular not because they sounded great - they sound like shit and the reasons studios go for them is that if you can get something to sound good on them, it will sound really alive on "nicer" sounding Hi-fi speakers. Please also note I talk in past tense as the NS10's are not the same monitor as NS10m's, and are no longer available.
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