From: Joe Cooper (joe_at_swelltech.com)
Date: 01/13/04 19:22 EST
Message-ID: <40048BCE.7080805@swelltech.com> From: Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com> Subject: Re: [Ardour-users] Another OT Hardware Question Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 18:22:38 -0600 Ross Vandegrift wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 11:27:18AM -0800, James Dory wrote: >>Good monitor suggestions for the neighborhood of around $300 - $600 or >>thereabouts? Cabling: balanced TSR 1/4" or regular 1/4" speaker cables - >>or how do you go from XLR (balanced cable connections to better >>monitors) to the 1/4" Delta jacks - with high Z converters? > > > I've also been watching monitors lately, thinking about buying some new > gear when I get some cash. Most active monitors in that price range > have both XLR and 1/4" inputs, so you're good on that front. > > I've read good things about the Yamaha MSP5's. They're pretty small > (something like 6x11x9 inches) and run $500 a pair on MF. They're even > supposed to sound decent for the price/size point. I recently did a lot of research on this, and ended up with a pair of passive Tannoy System 600s and a Hafler P3000 amplifier. This combo was a little out of that price range ($550 for the Tannoys and $500 for the amplifier), but I decided it was the least I could spend and be satisfied in the long run. The Tannoy Reveals are also thought very highly of, and when paired with a Hafler amp are reportedly excellent. I'm a firm believer that accurately hearing what you record and mix is vital to getting a good end result. More important than the latest outboard gear or plugins or whatever (though mics and preamps are also pretty darned important). Anyway, I haven't done any real mixes on this combo yet, but listening to recordings I know well makes me very confident that I'll get good results from them. I do notice the low-end roll-off, but no monitor in this price range will do significantly better without giving up accuracy. Don't forget to treat the room appropriately...The best monitors and amp in the world can't make a bedroom or living room into a reasonable mixing environment. You /need/ effective bass traps and absorption to make it useful. For ~$350 I bought enough rigid fiberglass (Owens Corning 705) and cloth to cover it and materials for building frames to pretty effectively treat my converted office studio. I'm planning to post before and after frequency analysis results from this room soon. The dips and peaks and distortion evident in the graphs before treatment are astonishing. -- Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com> Web caching appliances and support. http://www.swelltech.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ Ardour-users mailing list Ardour-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ardour-users
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