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looking for advice on choosing a pair of home studio monitors
Yamaha Hs 5s and Krk rockit 5 s was mentioned

maybe some secondhand kit is available

Look stop messing around and get a pair of ESL989's

tony wrote:Look stop messing around and get a pair of ESL989's

lol
not for me
for music student
i know nothing about studio monitors but i thought thered be a good chance someone here would
im sure theres probably more to it than been revealing and neutral
dunno if our ca type antics would benefit it any

Hi Nige
There is a pair of AVI ADM9 Speakers in our classifieds if they are still available would be worth a look.

Derek wrote:Hi Nige
There is a pair of AVI ADM9 Speakers in our classifieds if they are still available would be worth a look.

id imagine thats well out of the price range

they seem to do allot dac, preamp, amp, and speakers all in one
wonder how that would compare to dac / int amp and speakers

whats the difference between neutral/resolving hifi speakers and studio monitors anyway?
quick google search seems to show up a similar amount of bs with studio monitors as is with hifi

id imagine its quite possible to get a new set of studio monitors in this price range that would be easily outperformed analytically by some suitable s/h hifi equipment?

Nigel, many years ago I had a brief listen to a pair of monitors. Not an experience I would want to repeat! Monitors, as the name suggest, focus on the sound. A recording engineer need to hear exactly what is happening in the studio, hence he/she uses monitors. Hi-Fi is about enjoying music not taking it apart. I know which I prefer....

Rocker wrote:Nigel, many years ago I had a brief listen to a pair of monitors. Not an experience I would want to repeat! Monitors, as the name suggest, focus on the sound. A recording engineer need to hear exactly what is happening in the studio, hence he/she uses monitors. Hi-Fi is about enjoying music not taking it apart. I know which I prefer....

find myself a little confused over the theory of monitors

when i was building or upgrading my pc/dac/amp i always aimed for higher resolution and detail for a more natural/ neutral type of sound as it always sounded more real to me

guess it's down to the old try it and see

on a bit of googling this home studio equipment seem to have little or no regard for things like power supplies, emi/rfi avoidance/protection, noise or any emphasis on timing control

but maybe it doesn't matter for the loudness war ipod generation.... :(

Proper studio monitors should have flat frequency response and go loud. Basically clean, unburstable and rugged enough to deal with whatever's thrown at them. A friend of mine runs a studio and I went once purely to hear his professional ATC monitors in action. They were incredible in many ways, with stupid levels of detail ("what's that noise?" I asked at one point. "Oh, that's the click track playing in the singers headphones during the recording" came the response). I'm not sure I'd like them at home, though.

As for home studio monitors, I have no idea why such a thing would be any different to normal home speakers.

Diapason wrote:Proper studio monitors should have flat frequency response and go loud. Basically clean, unburstable and rugged enough to deal with whatever's thrown at them. A friend of mine runs a studio and I went once purely to hear his professional ATC monitors in action. They were incredible in many ways, with stupid levels of detail ("what's that noise?" I asked at one point. "Oh, that's the click track playing in the singers headphones during the recording" came the response). I'm not sure I'd like them at home, though.

that sounds like a very interesting experience and a bit of an eye opener i bet

As for home studio monitors, I have no idea why such a thing would be any different to normal home speakers.

that's what i would have thought as long as they were neutral and revealing

suppose there's a colossal difference between home and proper studio equipment

nige2000 wrote: suppose there's a colossal difference between home and proper studio equipment

Yeah, mainly cost, with the home stuff priced suitably stratospherically for audiophools!

Allegedly. :)