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Originally posted by super trance for your home use what kind of monitors are yall using. i seem to find most home speakers are not very clear speakers when you are trying to keep your beats matched. just looking to see what some of you are using. again this is for home use. i would like to have something that is loud and clear that is inexpensive. thanks

How loud are you wanting?? i used these computer moniters by "Creative Labs" for over a year before the sub woofer was clearly blown. only cost me $40 US currency. computer speakers are probably twice as good as they are when i bought those over 2 years ago.

you could get a sick lil system that's good enough to bump a room for under $100. this is for monitoring of course, not all out bumping, slamin, and dancin. i still got down on mine though

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Originally posted by antronx You also have to play high quality recordings of live acoustic instuments to really appreciate these monitors. Although, some people who are not used to highly detailed highs often say that these monitors sound bad. But what they are hearing is badly mastered recording, not the speakers. Sometimes i want to punch some of the EDM producers for writing a great track, but not doing a good job at mastering.

so for most of use purchasing the hr824 would be useless?

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so for most of use purchasing the hr824 would be useless?

I didnot say that, I said to really apperciate these monitors you need to hear acoustic instruments throught those.
You can use them for anything else. I use them for monitoring my mixing. I also use them for many more purposes, I set the weight of the turntables tonearm, by letting off the weight and listening for any distortion. I could not really do that accurately on my old 12" 3 way speakers from the 80's. I use them for editing, eq-ing tracks, even for watching DVDs.

I am thinking of gettign the sub for them when i get a spare grand in my pocket... my neighboors will love it!

I thinking about getting monitors today, The thing is i CANNOT have a sub. Since i live in an apartment all the bass from a sub makes it hard for my downstairs neighbor. I do need bass coming from the monitors though. Which monitors do you guys suggest? Right now i'm using klipsch speakers that basically only have mids and highs. the suckage.

IF you have the money, get Mackies 824s, they got plenty of bass without the sub. THe sub is only for people who want lower frequency responce and more kick. And for those who dont live in the apartment...

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Originally posted by antronx I didnot say that, I said to really apperciate these monitors you need to hear acoustic instruments throught those. You can use them for anything else. I use them for monitoring my mixing. I also use them for many more purposes, I set the weight of the turntables tonearm, by letting off the weight and listening for any distortion. I could not really do that accurately on my old 12" 3 way speakers from the 80's. I use them for editing, eq-ing tracks, even for watching DVDs.

i understand.

Mackie HRS120 is the way forward

Nice!
I am definitely getting one of those.
Extra 400Watts of bass is always good when spinning
DnB.

so, without a big budget to buy the Mackie 624/824, the Rokit's seem to be the most bang for your buck?

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Originally posted by MERLIN so, without a big budget to buy the Mackie 624/824, the Rokit's seem to be the most bang for your buck?

Yeah, unless you want something really high end for production purposes. The Rockits work for both production and DJing and cost less. They don't sound that much different from the Mackies, maybe not quite as clear but certaintly are decent monitors for home use. I don't think it's worth $125-150 more for Mackies.