Best monitors in the lower price range...

i have my KRK RP5 G2 for 350 400 with tax. If i suggest a pair i would go with the mackie studio grades if you have the money. the KRKs you have to position them to hear the low end bass properly.

Bu tthe KRK RP5 G2 are good, very good

dont touch beringer

trailz516 wrote:Save up some more money and keep using the KRK's for now. Whatever you buy in the $400 price range isnt gonna be much better than what you have now.

+1

The next step up would be Adams, Blue Sky, Dynaudio, Focal, Genelec and JBL.

trailz516 wrote: Whatever you buy in the $400 price range isnt gonna be much better than what you have now.

Not to threadjack but, I just moved into a new crib and I ain't got shit but some Sennhieser HD 205 headphones to work on.

http://www.zzounds.com/productreview--BEHB2031A

i gives a fluck what anyone says, these monitors are underrated because they're behringer. keep in mind we're talking about under $400 before you start comparing them to mackies and ish. i realize the design is based on a particular pair of mackies, but obviously not the same thing. my beats are sonically better since i picked up a pair.... peep the link or do a google search for reviews and you'll see that they receive overwhelmingly positive ratings.

^^^ +1 Buy cheap buy twice.

The lower price of monitor is $400 is not for the good monitor. If you want to get good monitor then the lower price $500 is the best. Rokit 6s is good monitor and it is also better than Behringer Truth monitors. Behringer Truth monitors are not so good and it has many problem increased after buying it. So the Rokit 6s is the best choice.

It really doesn't matter to me for real. If you don't understand the acoustics of your room and you're wack at mixing I don't care what kind of monitors you have. You can get NASA monitors and it's going to be a poop mix.

'aww...behringer uses cheap china parts', yeah, no sh!t, that's why they cost $400. Payless shoes are made in China, so are Jordans and Air Max, will Lebron James still drop 40 on you regardless what's on his feet? Yeah, he will.

how many of you dudes for real sell beats? not very many. if this shit is that serious, then yeah, get yourself a $2000 set of monitors. if you do this shit on the weekends like me, it's hobby-no big deal. my behringers serve there purpose and didn't make me go broke.

you dudes are like my wife, yall wanna argue for the sake of arguing.

http://www.americanmusical.com/Item--i- ... M-PAK-LIST

I have HS 50's and they sound good for my purposes.

kaybee wrote:It really doesn't matter to me for real. If you don't understand the acoustics of your room and you're wack at mixing I don't care what kind of monitors you have. You can get NASA monitors and it's going to be a poop mix.

'aww...behringer uses cheap china parts', yeah, no sh!t, that's why they cost $400. Payless shoes are made in China, so are Jordans and Air Max, will Lebron James still drop 40 on you regardless what's on his feet? Yeah, he will.

how many of you dudes for real sell beats? not very many. if this shit is that serious, then yeah, get yourself a $2000 set of monitors. if you do this shit on the weekends like me, it's hobby-no big deal. my behringers serve there purpose and didn't make me go broke.

you dudes are like my wife, yall wanna argue for the sake of arguing.

I definetly agree. Acoustics is a huge part of monitors sounding good. A wack room will still makje the best monitors sound crap.

Get what you can afford. Do not kill yourself for the best £2000 monitors if you're just a hobby guy or a guy who just makes beats part time. Behringers do their job, they aren't the best but they do what they do, just don't buy them new.

If your just a hobby guy, then it's no big deal. Hip-hop to me is making do with what you have. Making beats out of what you got and improvising. What's with all you big spenders?

Buy secondhand, check classifieds pages and ask friends. My 2 cents.

To a certain extent i agree with the post above. If it's just a hobby and you just started, don't spend too much. For the first two years i was making my beats with some cheap ass logitech pc speakers... it worked somehow.

However... who said you need to be a professional or make lots of money with your beats to appreciate a pair of good sounding monitors? Heck, even if i'm never going to sell a beat or achieve anything with my beats, what's wrong with finding joy in good sounding monitors to make beats/listen to them?

I waited for two years with buying monitors, but when i finally did, i wanted something that was worth the money and would show some actual improvement in sound. I mean... if i would want to save money, i could have stayed with my cheap logitech speakers. To me it wouldn't have made sense to replace them with sub-quality monitors just to save money. The logic of "buy cheap, buy twice" really does apply here.

My room isn't great regarding acoustics, and i don't plan on treating it in any way in this regard. Nevertheless... good monitors will always sound better than poor ones, even in a bad acoustic environment/room. And if i ever get to the point where i'll rent a room to build my own little studio, i already have some good monitors.

I went to test out a lot of monitors when i bought mine, and i copped those that sounded best to my ears. And this should really be the only important thing. Don't look at brand names too much, ignore price tags (within your budget), and buy what sounds good to YOUR ears!

And last but not least, i believe in music equipment you should never go for the cheapest stuff. It's the same with instruments... if you go for the cheapest stuff available, you are guaranteed to get shit quality... and at this point, you're better off keeping the money and keep using those pc speakers you got. Spending thousands of dollars on monitors makes no sense if you're a bedroom producer, but spending only 200 for monitors that'll sound shit doesn't make any sense either.

My 2 cents...