monitors

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I am looking for suggestions on value priced monitors. Any thought?
When I finish my mixes I make sure everything sounds right on a typical
car/home stereo. Eventually I will upgrade to Genelec or something
like that.

Thanks!

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Hi,
Apparently Event monitors sound ok, so I'm told...
I kinda like HHB circle 5's, but they wont go very loud.
Quested F-11's anyone?
D.Slev.

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studiorat wrote:

> Apparently Event monitors sound ok, so I'm told...

This is extremely subjective territory, not nicely subject to realiable
transport from one human's perception/opinion and another's.

--
ha

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studiorat <daveslevin@02.ie> wrote:
>Event monitors are cheap. That's what value priced means. And the few
>people who mentioned them liked them.

I never much liked them. I think you can do a lot better at that price
range, including the NHT consumer stuff.

>No offence, but why mention upgrading to Genelecs? Is this from
>experience of hearsay? Personally I'm not a fan I've always found them
>a bit bright sounding (more grief now, just watch!!). But I'm the only
>person I know who seems to like Eastlakes can't afford them... (but I
>digress...).

Genelec used to have three totally different ranges of speakers that
were all voiced differently. The 1030 was one sound... the 1031 and 1032
were a different sound, and the S30 was a still different sound. Then
they got the horrible but inexpensive 1029 in their line.

Now they have a new line, the 8000-series. This series is all pretty
much voiced similarly, so what you lose on the cheaper one is mostly
low end extension. The bottom of the line in the 8000 series is actually
not bad at all, and pretty cheap. (Unlike the 1029 which was dreadful.)

>I have had many sets of monitors, expensive and cheap. I never bought
>any of them without working with them for a while first.

>If I was buying a set of monitors in the =80700 price range I would look
>at the Event 20/20's, because I was told that there pretty good.
>
>Then of course there's the amp and the stands, and that's before you
>even put them in the bloody room.

The room is the real sticking point.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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studiorat wrote:

> Event monitors are cheap.

If we can find cheaper speaekrs will they be better "value"? There is no
shortage of cheap speakers.

> That's what value priced means. And the few
> people who mentioned them liked them.
> No offence, but why mention upgrading to Genelecs? Is this from
> experience of hearsay? Personally I'm not a fan I've always found them
> a bit bright sounding (more grief now, just watch!!).

Have you heard the new line of small Genelecs? They sound different than
the old ones. Many who hear the news ones like them while they didn't
like the previous issues.

--
ha

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Try a used set of JBL 4311s or 4312s.
I could be wrong but that's just my opinion.

coop



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>I am looking for suggestions on value priced monitors. Any thought?
> When I finish my mixes I make sure everything sounds right on a typical
> car/home stereo. Eventually I will upgrade to Genelec or something
> like that.
>
> Thanks!
>