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By emceewhiterabbit Thu Jan 27, 2011 12:21 pm
http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalo ... CUQ8wIwAw#

a lot of good reviews for these monitors, can anybody else vouch? seems like a good price for good quality.

any other affordable monitors that are worth noting?
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By dabmeister Thu Jan 27, 2011 3:15 pm
konc3pt wrote:event 20/20, event ps8


+1, or a pair of event ASP8's
By roxstar Thu Jan 27, 2011 10:26 pm
I've been using the monitor 2's since I first bought a drum machine. All I know is these things can take a BEATIN'! They bump like loudspeakers. The bad thing about the Monitor 2's is they are a little too heavy on the bass, so I always have to reduce it a little. Besides that, I like em. The Monitor 1's should be fine. I've heard them before and they sound good, but never used them in a mix.
Just a tip about Monitors, unless your spending lots of $$$$, your basically buying the best of the worst. Learn to adapt to whatever your using and you'll be able to use a ghetto blaster to monitor your music. I've seen some SUPER hood speaker boxes been used as studio monitors before by producers you probably respect. If I ever needed another set of speakers, I would hit my local pawn shop up and buy some ol school woodgrain house speakers for a few dollars! haha! (Seriously!)
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By emceewhiterabbit Fri Jan 28, 2011 11:56 am
roxstar wrote:I've been using the monitor 2's since I first bought a drum machine. All I know is these things can take a BEATIN'! They bump like loudspeakers. The bad thing about the Monitor 2's is they are a little too heavy on the bass, so I always have to reduce it a little. Besides that, I like em. The Monitor 1's should be fine. I've heard them before and they sound good, but never used them in a mix.
Just a tip about Monitors, unless your spending lots of $$$$, your basically buying the best of the worst. Learn to adapt to whatever your using and you'll be able to use a ghetto blaster to monitor your music. I've seen some SUPER hood speaker boxes been used as studio monitors before by producers you probably respect. If I ever needed another set of speakers, I would hit my local pawn shop up and buy some ol school woodgrain house speakers for a few dollars! haha! (Seriously!)


sound advice my friend that is much appreciated.

goes well with what someone else said to me on here once: play your music through all types of speakers and you will get a good feel for what you have made. so i guess the 'best' quality isn't necessary as such, just make the music the best you can and pump that sheeeit in the club at full blast and hope it sounds good....
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By dabmeister Fri Jan 28, 2011 12:22 pm
Plus keep this in mind. Everybody's level for quality of sound as well as quality of product is going to be different. Yeah, my very first set of monitors were Alesis M1's (early 90's) and they faired pretty well until the tweeters started going bad.

I replaced the defective tweets then started having issues with the woofers. So at that point I said to myself that I was going to invest in some decent bi-amped monitors and grabbed a pair of those Event PS8's.

Not only has these things outlasted the M1's threefold, they sound more accurate which translated to me getting better mixes than I had before.

It's just that my experiences with both M1's & M2's (my boy had a pair) wasn't so pleasant as some others have stated. But because I might've had a bad relationship with them doesn't mean the same may happen to you.

But I know I'd never go back to using them knowing the crop of decent monitors that's out on the landscape now.
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By emceewhiterabbit Fri Jan 28, 2011 1:10 pm
yeah, durability is a massive issue with speakers/monitors. good to know that pair are durable, for a decent price.