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i agree KRKs are good but i find my TAPCO S8s are even better, just my opion tho
AdSense 336x280[quote quote="estaloca311":x9wg24tc]don’t mean to sound like a dick (really) but asking what are the "best" monitors is an excercise in futility. Your best bet would be to go to a place where they sell a good selection of speakers along with one of your favorite tracks in original CD and test loads of them at different volumes and then choose what sounds better to your ears.
I’ve heard of pros swearing by their meager M-Audio 5s or (god forbid) Truths. Monitor selection is a really subjective personal choice kind of thing.
On the KRKs , I’ve only tested the 8s and the subwoofer and to my ears they sound amazing for the price if a little bass shy for their size but with the sub they really shine.[/quote:x9wg24tc]
Thats a really valid point, but you may have been taking the question a little too literally.. Of course its an excercise in futility b/c like you said, its all personal preference. I think he was really just asking advice on what a good quality monitor at a competitve price is. I think it goes w/o saying that most monitors priced in the thousands of dollars sound better than a pair of Maudio or KRK. Thats a no brainer. But again, that is really sound advice as far as going to guitar center (or wherever) and testing them yourself.
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Thats a really valid point, but you may have been taking the question a little too literally.. Of course its an excercise in futility b/c like you said, its all personal preference. I think he was really just asking advice on what a good quality monitor at a competitve price is. I think it goes w/o saying that most monitors priced in the thousands of dollars sound better than a pair of Maudio or KRK. Thats a no brainer. But again, that is really sound advice as far as going to guitar center (or wherever) and testing them yourself.
[/quote:3e42n7jp]True. I am merely reinforcing the point that there many little differences even in the lowest price spectrum in n/f monitors. All the monitors i have mentioned (M-Audio, Behringer and KRK) are in fact considered cheap by monitor standards. I am using two pairs myself (to A/B between the mixes) and one of them is the M-Audio BX5 (my first monitors, kinda crap but i know their sound by heart by now). But the moral of the story is this. Any producer’s main monitoring device are their EARS. Some people’s ears are so advanced that they can pump out almost perfect mixes with even Altec PC speakers (for those of you with a dubstep bend , Ramadanman a pioneer of the scene and a man of huge bass, does just that. He mixes on either Altec-Lansig pc speakers or an old beat-up Technics stereo.)
AdSense 336x280And over a year later the discussion rages on!
Have a look at Quested or Genelec.
They have some classic models which last the test of time
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