PMC AML-1.... OMFG!

[heinz]

Originally posted by C.Lambrechts
almost everything sounds good on them ... and again quite the oposite of what you say ... it only sounds good on them.

Ok I was with you up until this part. My experience has been very different, I've worked with ns10's extensively and I get much better results with the AML-1's. They're damn accurate as studio monitors, but like anything your room and mileage may vary.

[C.Lambrechts]

If you're gonna quote me, quote me right please : The sentence started with 'for me the speaker was just too easy' :

In the context I was explaining it this means that when I worked on them I did not have a very hard time to make the mix sound good. But it was apparently in my case too easy because the mixes didn't sound well outside the room.

Indeed, milages vary ... which is one of the points of my post you quoted in the first place.

[Ollie]

I have never used these speakers, but do not throw out your NS10M's. I have been using a couple pair of speakers to mix on and find this very helpful. Actually, I would love to have one more pair of speakers also. I go back and forth between my Dynaudios and the NS10M's. When things sound good on both (yes different), but good on both my mixes translate better to more systems. If you can make the upper mids sound good on the NS10s then they will sound pretty good everywhere else. I use the Dynaudios to judge more the lows and low mids.

[heinz]

Originally posted by C.Lambrechts
If you're gonna quote me, quote me right please : The sentence started with 'for me the speaker was just too easy' :

Check.

[Mantra]

How much are they going for in Belgium? I'd love to give them a shot. Or do you buy in Germany? Thanks.

Peter

[DrDeltaM]

Contact Raf at Joystick Audio: http://www.joystick.be

He's the .be PMC dealer and a nice guy as well :-)

[Mantra]

What do you guys use to drive your PMC's? Anyone tried different converters for this? Thanks.

Peter

[Mantra]

Originally posted by DrDeltaM
Contact Raf at Joystick Audio: http://www.joystick.be

He's the .be PMC dealer and a nice guy as well :-)

Thank you Doctor. That's cool. I know the guy and just saw them advertised on his website.thumbsup

[DrDeltaM]

I don't have PMC's yet, but i'm very interested in the TB2S+. Will be driving them with Bryston or Flying Mole or Hafler if i buy them. The first 2 being the 'as recommended/sold by PMC' solution, the latter the budget solution for keeping the bank account healthy. :-)
The AML1's are active (build-in Bryston), so you wouldn't need an amp.

[Mantra]

The last time my bank account was healthy was in 1980. I was saving for my first guitar. I spent all of my cash at once and have been buying ever since resulting in a permanently terminally ill bank account

[Clueless]

Heinz (and everybody else),

I am so stoked! For the past 1.5 years I've been struggling with my Mackie 624s. Mixes didn't translate, and in particular, I was always making mixes that were way too bass-heavy. It got to the point where even when I was killing the bass so bad that I couldn't hear it at all, it was still too bass heavy. The fix? Find some f-ing monitors that show enough bass that I can hear it in the studio and set the right levels.

Enter the PMC-1. I just bought my pair from dtswest, and BANG there's the octave I've been missing. Lots of bass. Too much? That's what every other system's been telling me!!!

Now I can mix, and more importantly, I can believe that what I hear in my room will be what I hear in the car, on my stereo, and elsewhere. I'll report back in a few weeks after I've really put these through their paces, but the AML-1s seem to be exactly what I was looking for.

BTW, I did just do an A/B with the 624s. I did calibrated stereo comparisons, as well as listening with AML-1 on the left channel, the 624 on the right, and then moving master left faders with eyes closed until I could hear (1) very balanced sound (checked with Radio Shack SPL meter) and (2) that the 624s don't report the 30Hz to 60 Hz that the AML-1s do.

OMFG++

[muziqfreek]

....AML1's vs Mackie HR 624's - hardly seems like a fair comparison tho really..... i mean one pair's nearly £4k - and the others only £800.....

hmm....

Ones made by a company who's acronym of their name includes the words "Professional" and "Monitoring" - the other makes a bit of everything - commendable - but at 5times the price you really should be going O.M.F.G at the quality difference......

not knocking ya dude - just a mere observation.... ( i've short listed a pair of PMC's on my nearfield shopping list.... so id equally be swayed too!!!)

jus my 2p's worth...

[Clueless]

I was wondering if somebody was going to comment on the discrepency in price. I thought about mentioning that, but I decided "hey, this is Gearslutz...who in their right mind measures quality based only on price!?" Just happy to confirm that the PMCs are 20kg of sonic orgasms (each), and that I'm not going to have to spend 1000s more treating my room or 100s of 1000s more building a space to get something I can mix with.

(You may think I'm kidding, but I was seriously beginning to believe that the only way things were going to get better involved laying a new foundation to build a room that didn't have square dimensions. My room, sadly, is 5m x 5m x 3m. I was afraid to "waste" good money on monitors that would not work in my room.)