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i am thinking of buying V8 and saw some bad report on V8. now i am
wondering if i should. can anyone help?

i am currently using ultrasone PRO2500 headphones. just to give you an
idea of the quality of sound i am currently used to. don't know if
Pro2500 are good or bad.

so V8 will be better or worse? is there anything that i should look at
before buying?

- mike

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<donotreplymeonthisemail@gmail.com> wrote:
>i am thinking of buying V8 and saw some bad report on V8. now i am
>wondering if i should. can anyone help?

Do you like how they sound?

>i am currently using ultrasone PRO2500 headphones. just to give you an
>idea of the quality of sound i am currently used to. don't know if
>Pro2500 are good or bad.
>
>so V8 will be better or worse? is there anything that i should look at
>before buying?

Monitoring on ANY speakers, no matter how bad they are, will be an
improvement on trying to mix on headphones.

Personally I don't like the low end on the V8, but you might. How do
they sound?
--scott

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

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I like them and don't mind the low end at all. In fact, I have the
filter in the back on the most bass-light setting since I was used to
my NS10s prior to getting the V8s. Eventually I might change the curve
but I'm finding that this setting does translate pretty well for me.

Scott Dorsey wrote:
> <donotreplymeonthisemail@gmail.com> wrote:
> >i am thinking of buying V8 and saw some bad report on V8. now i am
> >wondering if i should. can anyone help?
>
> Do you like how they sound?
>
> >i am currently using ultrasone PRO2500 headphones. just to give you an
> >idea of the quality of sound i am currently used to. don't know if
> >Pro2500 are good or bad.
> >
> >so V8 will be better or worse? is there anything that i should look at
> >before buying?
>
> Monitoring on ANY speakers, no matter how bad they are, will be an
> improvement on trying to mix on headphones.
>
> Personally I don't like the low end on the V8, but you might. How do
> they sound?
> --scott
>
> --
> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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Your Ad Here! <bluemt@earthlink.net> wrote:
>I like them and don't mind the low end at all. In fact, I have the
>filter in the back on the most bass-light setting since I was used to
>my NS10s prior to getting the V8s. Eventually I might change the curve
>but I'm finding that this setting does translate pretty well for me.

That's sort of what I don't like... I found the low end kind of bloated
and out of control. I suppose you could compensate for it by changing
the room, though. But you shouldn't have to set it to tailor the low end
down.
--scott

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

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The three toggle positions for bass roll-off are -3db at 45Hz, 50Hz or
65Hz. I'm attenuating at 65Hz. I aways thought that the bass roll-off
settings existed to tailor the sound for the acoustics of a room. Works
pretty well for me but I agree with you to some extent - even with the
3db dip at 65Hz I have to mix with the bass frequencies reatively low
as they'll usually sound hotter on most stereos, even at this setting.
Just a matter of getting used to. Thinking more about it, I don't see
much reason to move the roll-off to the lower frequencies as that
would make the more audible 65hz range louder.

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they are in the category of personal preference. some people like them
some people hate them. i've seen people turn out great mixes off of
krk stuff. the opinion i got through repeated listening tests was kind
of like "these things are nowhere near linear or audiophile, but for
some reason i get the feeling i would turn out good mixes off of them".
i would personally use them for production and mixing, but i would
never open up a mastering facility and use those as my main speakers.

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