Mafoo

anyone know of any good monitors that run about 2-500$? so far ive heard the Alesis M1's and KRK8's are pretty good.

Alesis M1 Active mk2 Biamp Monitors at zZounds
M1Active MKII

i know nothing about brand names, so i need some help!

edit: so far im liking the specs and price on the monitor one MKII by Alesis

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Geeno

I dont quite understand what monitors are for, could you explain please?

Also not to get off topic but werent you saying your car fails on the highway?

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Mafoo

monitors are used for mixing tracks, in a studio. the higher end monitors give you a very "true" reperesentation of the sound as opposed to speakers which might be missing frequencies or artificially raising certain frequencies. if you dont use monitors to mix, your mix might sound good on one system and terrible on another.

and yes my car does occasionally stall when im low on gas. these are going to be a gift, if thats why youre asking.

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Black

I also need information in this type of purchase.

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krangs_androidbody

I got the KRK 5s. Pretty decent, totally satisfied. I think if you're doing serious mixing you're better off getting the bigger ones. I need a small setup since I live in a small apartment.

A friend also recently got some behringer's that sound pretty good. I said "oh, behringer's" and he explained that they actually made something right this time (something good for cheap) and reviews are almost unanimously positive.

Mafoo

thanks for the input, and nice avatar btw.

im kinda in the same situation as you, i live at home and my "studio" is my bedroom, so i feel like the acoustics arent going to be perfect regardless of the set up.

do the KRK's come with any type of warranty? im kinda concerned about longevity as monitors are kinda pricey, and i probably wouldnt be able to replace any for a long time.

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HTAM

It didn't take long to find some negative feedback on these. I understand that there's negative FB on everything, but have a look at what these guys have to say...FTR, I think Alesis makes some nice stuff.
Alesis M1 Active Mk2 Monitors user reviews and opinions

Have you looked at Behringer? Look at the Behringer Truth B3031A.
Amazon.com: Behringer Truth B3031A 2-Way Active Ribbon Studio Reference Monitor with Kevlar Woofer, Single Speaker: Musical Instruments

Behringer gets a bad rap because up until about 5 years ago, a lot of their stuff came from third party vendors. That was one of the ways that they kept cost down. They now have something called "Behringer City" where 3000 employees live on site and quality control is finely tuned in the manufacturing process.

Read up on them a little more.

Mafoo

so i went out and bought some KRK rokit8's.


im listening to some tunes on them right now, and they are pretty awesome so far.
got a 3 year protection plan for them

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I dont +know ++much 9about 9the 9monitors 9SUCD+alesis 9makes 9but 9I am 9really 9enok+\.\.\.\. 9enjoying 9a +their 9drum 9kit\.


I spilled 9water 9on 9my 9keyboard\.\.\. 9THIS SUC+KS!

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Mafoo

lol i thought maybe you were drunk or something.

i went with the KRK's because ive heard alot of good things about them, and they are supposedly quite solid as far as durability.

i need a bigger desk now though, they are kinda large for the size of my room.

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John F. Kerry

i was thiniking about getting these

Amazon.com: Bose Companion 20 Multimedia Speaker System: Electronics

not exactly monitors, but i saw them at best buy running and they sounded fucking unbelievable.

the bass is great , but i still wasnt sure if it would be noticeably better than my larger computer speakers that have a seperate sub.
so i still havent gotten around to getting em . but they iz on tha list

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Xil

i have some polk monitor ii 60's that i got on sale for $120 each. i dont know if they're the same kind of monitors since i don't make mjusic but they're bi-amp and sound nice. i plan on eventually filling out my sound system with other monitor series fwiw

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K10

Glad you went with the KRKs. Just saw this thread and was about to recommend them.

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