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Which of these 3 studio monitors should i get?
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| RickyM |
If anyone can help me out it would be great...basically my budget is around 300 pounds, so I've narrowed it down to these three:
Event TR8 monitors
KRK RP8's
Tannoy Reveal 5A's
If anyone has used these monitos, let me know what they are like...I'm swaying towards the Event's at the minute.
And before anyone says it, there's no way I can try them out first, there are no shops around here selling monitors like this, so I'm gonna have to research them well ;)
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| Thois |
| I have very good experiences with KRK monitors. I have RP-6 which i thought had a better sound than the RP-8 strangely enough (in store). A m8 of mine has the RP-8 and has many releases and he is very happy too with his krk's. |
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| RickyM |
| quote: | Originally posted by dj_palm
i wouldnt go for tannoy in that price, their kinda to warm sounding and not all the details in the midrange come out as it should on monitors. tho they are great speakers and sound always good, but the point of monitors is to reveal and i dont think those are your best option in that price. good tannoy monitors are MUCH more expencive. |
Yeah it's mainly between the krk6 and the events for me, thanks mr palm...ill try and find a couple of reviews of them. |
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| Subtle |
| Alesis M1 Active MK II ftw:D |
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| Eldritch |
| I'm considering buying the Alesis MK II monitors too. Advice would also be welcome here. :) |
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| spolitta |
| quote: | Originally posted by Akazi
Event tr8. |
Yeah looks like the TR8 is the best in your list, I wouldn’t go for anything less than 8" for mixing trance, I had a Rokit-8 and returned it within 30 days, it probably wasn’t that bad but I just hated the sound particularly the lows. I wouldn’t bother with KRK unless you go for V8 2.0 which is one of the best monitors for the price. |
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| Derivative |
I hated the KVK v8. Really hated it. They have ridiculously powerful amps and the monitor can go really loud but it sounds like its shrieking at high amplitude. I immediately wanted to put a notch EQ somewhere in the upper mid ranges right on the output. Made my ears start aching after about 30 seconds. 30 in' seconds!
I havent auditioned the Event TR-8 but I have auditioned the TR-6 and Reveal 5a. The TR-6 was in my opinion the best budget monitor up until the BAS 20/20 in terms of price. It did have problems. It doesn't feel that solid and Event's customer relations are very very poor. Monitor itself is fairly good and it 'fills' a small room in a way that the Tannoys did not. The Tannoys were good in my opinion but not as bassy as the TR-6.
From all the monitors I auditioned I think pretty much everything below 600 quid was a compromise in one way or another. As soon as you can afford Dynaudio BM5as and above, very little starts to separate monitors in the same size category in small rooms at moderate listening levels. Could'nt tell the difference between BM5as and BM6as until you crank them up then the 6as humongous amps just start to take over.
ADAM p11a was the most expensive near field monitor I have auditioned and I nearly bought that but instead settled on the Dynaudio BM5a and some sound treatment for my room. The p11a was really really good but it sounded quite different to the BM5a and alot of other monitors. Which is kind of weird... You can drive them insanely hard and they dont really hurt your ears that much. And you have to drive it hard enough to break the pain threshold before the signal starts to break up. Really good amps in those boxes.
Comparing cheaper monitors to the p11a is really revealing. Alesis M1s sounded muffled in comparison. *muffled*.
They are kind of expensive though but check out the ADAM a7 if you can afford it. It should have been launched by now and its basically a p11a with a different woofer and amps that arent as powerful. And they cost half the price of the p11a. |
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| Vizay |
wich ones you should pick...easy answer!
You should pick the ones that you feel most comfortable working with, end of story. No two ears are the same... |
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| RickyM |
| So in your opinion Mr Derivative, I should go for the Event TR8's? I can't really afford to spend much more, so the ADAM ones are out of the question, as too are Dynaudio. |
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| [Alpha]Dave |
| A friend of mine has those Event-monitors and I must say they truly sounds great imo, so that would be my bet If I were to choose from your little list. But personally I think you should check up all stores u can visit in a near distance and listen to various ones yourself, cause after all it's you who are going to use them and have to be comfortable with them. It's a very subjective choice. |
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| Derivative |
| quote: | Originally posted by RickyM
So in your opinion Mr Derivative, I should go for the Event TR8's? I can't really afford to spend much more, so the ADAM ones are out of the question, as too are Dynaudio. |
In my opinion the TR-8s were the most well rounded monitors of the ones you listed. I have not auditioned KRK RP8s but I did audition KRK V8s and hated them. If you saved £120 more you could have the ADAM a7s. And if they are anything close to the p11as (which they reportedly are) then they will blow you away.
Also think about depreciation. ADAM and Dynaudio monitors fall in price less on the second hand market provided you keep them in good cosmetic condition (you cannot destroy BM5as. They are weight 10 kilos each and they feel like solid cubes of metal and wood with no air in them. Built like brick houses). Event monitors will depreciate more and one of the TR-6s that I auditioned rattled when you drive it hard. That may have been a shoddy display model but theres literally no chance of a BM5a or P11a getting a rattle. All you need to do is hold one and shake it to realise that. In a small bedroom you wont ever drive them to capacity. Not without your ears and neighbors dying first.
If you are in this for the long haul I think its best to just do it right first time. You should audition all of those monitors before you buy any of them but in my subjective experience I was most impressed with the p11a and the Dynaudio BM5a. I eventually bought the BM5as.
I was originally going to buy the Event TR-6s but in the end I decided I wanted to get it right first time and really push the ball out. So I waited 2 months and put aside £200 a month from my paypacket so I could afford them. It really is worth it in the long haul.
Bear in mind also the size and dimensions of the room you are monitoring in. The KRK V8 amps are overkill in a small bedroom. Total overkill. Especially if you only monitor in nearfield. |
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