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Hello all,

I was wondering if anyone had any advice on a good of studio monitors. Right now I have a pair of the Sony (I believe the model is something like MD50 or something like that) headphones. They were like $100 new and work alright but I don't like mixing down with headphones. I was looking at a pair of KRK V8's. Any opinions or suggestions on KRK or other monitors would be appreciated. Thanks,

Scott Picco
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Lord don't mix down via headphones.

You'd be better off using the I CHING for eq'ing.

i just started working on the KRK K-Rock model. i've only done two or three sessions with them. the owner at my studio recently switched to them from Event 20/20s which i think suck. maybe they just sucked in our control room, i don't know. but i like the K Rocks much better already, and i can hear the improvement in my mixes. tighter bottom and smoother top than the Events. the Events are powered and biamped, the KRKs aren't. i'm not sure how much of a factor this is. so far, we having been driving the k rocks with a shitty alesis power amp, and i still like them better than the events.

i have never heard the KRK V8 model.

we also use yamaha NS10s which i think are great. they aren't flattering to the material and they are lacking in the bass end, but they are quite accurate. if i can make music sound good on NS10s, i am pretty confident it will sound good almost anywhere else. also, doing constant A/B tests between NS10s and the other monitors helped me adjust really easily when we switched models. it's too bad yamaha stopped making them.

tim

In my personal studio in my home, I have the KRK V8s. Although I think they got a much better review than they deserve, still a very nice set of speakers. I've used the Event 20/20s and, although I don't think they were that bad, the V8s are a serious improvement.
The B&W Matrix 805 are really nice too. I heard they had some new line out, but have yet to experience them.
Are the Events you had powered speakers? I know they made some non-self powered speakers that were bad. The powered ones worked pretty well though.

I have a pair of the Mackie HR824. They sound really good for the money and go as low as 37Hz and beyond 20kHz. Check them out for yourself. I really like them, they have great low end response and smooth clear high end with wide dispersion.

brianbiv wrote:I have a pair of the Mackie HR824. They sound really good for the money and go as low as 37Hz and beyond 20kHz. Check them out for yourself. I really like them, they have great low end response and smooth clear high end with wide dispersion.

Don't you find the HR824's bright and full of too much irritating midrange? I use them to edit dialogue and music for film and they really fatigue my ears after a while. If I'm playing music through them I have to EQ it to get rid of some of that midrange irritation. I haven't found them to have "great low end response" at all. Just my 2 cents-I miss my old NS10's...

i agree that the mackies don't have great low end response. that's what i liked about them when i used them on a regular basis a while back. i wouldn't want them to be the only set of monitors in the room, but i found them to be useful in the same way as i use NS10s (see earlier post).

tim

Don't you find the HR824's bright and full of too much irritating midrange?

I found that the low end, maybe isnt huge, but is tight. I like the detail in the high frequencies. I find that Genelecs are extremely fatiguing to listen to for prolonged sessions, they are very transient and the 5-6kHz is ripping your head off. The NS-10s to me sound a bit more narrow, not as "20-20". But you can mix on anything or more importantly any where once you reference and keep referencing. Every control room is different, in the low end especially.

The Behringer Truth monitors are actually really good, even better sounding than the Mackies they're ripping off. They translate pretty well everywhere I listen to mixes, I have yet to have any bands give me the "the mixes sound different in the car" line. And they're super cheap.

Tannoy reveals are pretty nice, and you don't even have to buy the actives, as they sound good with most power amps.
- John