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What are good powered reference monotors between $1-2k.
I am used to Yamaha NS-10m's
kevin

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Plenty of people seem to like going from NS-10 to KRK. I like them, but
monitors... personal preference and all that. The only thing I have
found is that Genelecs sound lovely and can lead to a false sense of
security if used alone... maybe a little flattering but great used with
something for context.

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<kevindoylemusic@rogers.com> wrote:
>Ever heard of Event monitors?

Sadly, yes.
--scott
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kevindoylemusic@rogers.com wrote:

> What are good powered reference monotors between $1-2k.
> I am used to Yamaha NS-10m's


Mackie HR-824, us$1400 the pair.

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> kevindoylemusic@rogers.com wrote:
>
> > What are good powered reference monotors between $1-2k.
> > I am used to Yamaha NS-10m's


dynaudio BM5A
pmc DB1S-A

dale

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In article <1109607246.091127.163660@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> kevindoylemusic@rogers.com writes:

> What are good powered reference monotors between $1-2k.

Refernce monitors cost much more than that. For $1-2K you can get
decent mixing monitors. Surely they have music stores where you are.
Go see what they've got set up, do some listening, tell us what you
think and then ask what we think.

> I am used to Yamaha NS-10m's

You might like the new version of the Tannoy Reveal 5A. They have a
soft dome tweeter rather than the Tannoy 50 kHz super tweeter, so you
don't need any toilet paper over the tweeters to tame them.


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<kevindoylemusic@rogers.com> wrote in message news:1109607246.091127.163660@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> What are good powered reference monotors between $1-2k.
> I am used to Yamaha NS-10m's
> kevin
>

Nearfields are kinda' like underwear. It takes a year or so on any set
of near-field monitors before you can really trust what they're telling
you and learn to adjust. Don't toss your NS-10s for a while. <g>

They don't sound very close to an NS-10 (depending on what the NS-10
is being driven by), but the Yamaha MSP-10 is a dynamite self-powered
speaker. My first experience with them came back in September, when
I had to make a quick comparison between those, some Mackie HR-824
(which I am satisfied are acceptable as well), and some Event 2020's.

They were hands-down the more revealing and accurate of the three sets,
at least in my opinion.

I took some copies of raw tracks and some rough mixes home after each
session to listen to them on my Tannoy 6.5s and Klipsch KG-4s (which
are burned into my ears for years now) and they translated extremely
well. What I was hearing from the MSP-10s in the make-shift control
room, was exactly what I was striving for. With a little 'surprise' in my
state of mind, I took them into a real studio where I do a lot of work and
listened to the recordings on TADs, and the tracks still sounded exactly
as I had both hoped for and was hearing during recording. I guess that's
a long way around saying that the MSP-10 kicked butt for me and might
be worth a listen.

Sorry I can't offer more, but self powered monitors aren't something that
I deal with a lot.

I'm pretty much a nut over anything that Tannoy has made in the past
10 years or so, and I do virtually everything at mix time on a set of Tannoy
6.5s. I moved to the Tannoys from NS-10s almost 10 years ago and never
looked back at all. They were far more comfortable to listen to over longer
periods of time.

It probably wouldn't hurt either of us to check out what Tannoys has to
offer in powered monitors these days. They still seem to put the proof
in the pudding (user comments) rather that into hype and advertising.

Peace,

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In article <YCSUd.70460$uc.1130@trnddc04> mams@NOSPAm-a-m-s.com writes:

> Nearfields are kinda' like underwear. It takes a year or so on any set
> of near-field monitors before you can really trust what they're telling
> you and learn to adjust.

Now that's an analogy! Does it really take you a year to get used to
new underwear, and what do you adjust in order to trust your
underwear?

Wait a minute! Don't answer that!


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David Morgan \(MAMS\) <mams@NOSPAm-a-m-s.com> wrote:
>
>I really don't even wear underwear unless it's long-johns in the winter....
>so I'm pretty certain that it would take some time to feel comfortable
>doing so.

That's okay, I use nearfields about as often....
--scott

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