| Monitor speakers for dance music (house/techno)
There's a lot of threads out there in internet land (this forum included) that talk about studio monitors, and what's good in what price bracket... Invariably though, the OP is a rock producer, and all the talk about mix translation is based on rock music...
Whilst not being completely different, dance music does tend to have a different set of characteristics (more bass-heavy, less need for dynamics in mixing) which don't generally get a mention in such threads... Furthermore, there are a lot of speakers which rock heads seem not to rate that highly, which a lot of dance producers seem to use - the most obvious example to me being the KRK stuff...
So I'm in the market for speakers in the $1000-$1500 USD bracket, and I know what's out there and what people recommend, but I have no what their performance is like in a dance music context...
The shortlist so far is:
ADAM A7
Dynaudio BM5A
KRK V8
Genelec 8030A
Basically, what's good for dance music? I'm strongly leaning towards the A7s, people seem to be losing it over how good these speakers are for the prices, but once again, I'm not sure how well that hype translates to the needs of dance music producers...
If anyone has any advice or thoughts, or any other suggestions for what speakers would work, please post up! :D
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