Behringer TRUTH B2030A vs. Adam A7 vs. KRK Rokit 5

[cr1st0]

Please help, i wanna buy my first monitors and i wanna to waste my money better possible, to make psytrance, techno, electro with reason 4 and ableton live, there is one friend saying the adam 7 are ugly but are the best ones saying adam is always better, i'm confuse that adam has better frequency response but the woofer texture is realy wierd, what should i buy around 350 euros ? my audio interface is m-audio 24/96.

[Tha Wiizard]

Get the Mackie MR5 studio monitors. Look em up and read the reviews on them, they might be what you are looking for.

[the_man361]

for around 350 euros you wont get anywhere near adam A7's.. they cost around £550 for a pair, and pounds are worth more than euros...

[KingDiamond]

The Behringer B2031A monitors are actually used by a lot of techno mixers and I used to own them, they weren't flat sounding speakers though but the rear controls let you mess with the frequencies.

[Weasel9992]

Originally Posted by cr1st0

Please help, i wanna buy my first monitors and i wanna to waste my money better possible, to make psytrance, techno, electro with reason 4 and ableton live, there is one friend saying the adam 7 are ugly but are the best ones saying adam is always better, i'm confuse that adam has better frequency response but the woofer texture is realy wierd, what should i buy around 350 euros ? my audio interface is m-audio 24/96.

The Adam A7's absolutely blow the doors off the other two on your list. Behringer and Mackie aren't even in the parking lot of the same ball park as the A7's.

Frank

[jbass]

Thanks Frank !!!!
That being said and It's Glenn's birthday - and you can get an extra 10% off (minus shipping) .....

Hmmmmm - Is there a conflict of interest here???

Anyways - I own a set of Berhinger "Truth" monitors - and I find them excellent. I've mixed a many tracks and completed CD's on them - and once adjusted - they supplied a very good sound - not taxing - you can use them for hours without much "fatigue". The proof is in the pudding - the mixed tracks sound excellent over the radio....You can "tweak" the frequencies on them - tailor them to your needs and your room.

I can't speak to the Adams monitors - I'm sure they are very good. I don't know about "blowing the doors" off of others though. I believe that's probably very subjective....Like I said - Adams are probably very good monitors - maybe you can get 10% off of them from Frank cause it's Glenn's Birthday....

JB

[tootugh]

I bought Yamaha ms50, sound horrible unless your good at your instrument, mixing and mastering.

If your songs sound good on these, you are A#1, Duke of NY.


I bought the Rokit 5 's. Lot more bass, easier listening, just for listening to some music, you can record, mix and master and not know where you are.

[Weasel9992]

Originally Posted by jbass

Thanks Frank !!!!
That being said and It's Glenn's birthday - and you can get an extra 10% off (minus shipping) .....

Hmmmmm - Is there a conflict of interest here???

Anyways - I own a set of Berhinger "Truth" monitors - and I find them excellent. I've mixed a many tracks and completed CD's on them - and once adjusted - they supplied a very good sound - not taxing - you can use them for hours without much "fatigue". The proof is in the pudding - the mixed tracks sound excellent over the radio....You can "tweak" the frequencies on them - tailor them to your needs and your room.

I can't speak to the Adams monitors - I'm sure they are very good. I don't know about "blowing the doors" off of others though. I believe that's probably very subjective....Like I said - Adams are probably very good monitors - maybe you can get 10% off of them from Frank cause it's Glenn's Birthday....

JB

No agenda expressed or implied, nor is there any conflict of interest. GIK manufactures and sells *acoustic treatment*, man...I don't personally care what speakers a person owns, though I do know that some speakers make it harder to work in an imperfect room that others.

Frank

[7161]

well ive got the new rokit 5's (RP5G2's) and i like 'em

for trance you get a nice classic tite chugging trance bottom end and lots of mid detail for the widdly stuff & sawtooth strings etc

what i like about 'em best is how good they sound at low volume, or is that just me?

on the other hand they crank enuff to fill the room with music if you like that vibe when composing (i do), and also older material sounds great on them, not only new style. They reproduce older 60's stuff really nice, you get a great sense of that full midrange mix rather than a sort of oppressive bone crushing bottom end and then a flabby mid. Plenty of detail for me anyways. I like good clear mid detail in a speaker myself.

[dft3670]

The Behringers and the Adams are totaly different animals. The Behringers are very colored. They are hyped in the low end. They are not an accurate monitor whatsoever. The Adams are accurate, not hyped. The A7's are very revealing. They are also an incredible value at 1K for the pair. A truly professional monitor made by a well respected company.

That's not to say you can't mix on Truths and get them to translate.
If you try hard enough you can probably mix through two tin cans and a piece of string. My moto is talent trumps gear, always.

I owned a pair a few years ago and could get a mix out the door with them. But it is difficult. The Truths are not at all revealing. Half your mix (and your mistakes) get buried in their coloring.

For hip hop, and techno they are ok, but your not going to be hearing the delicate breath sounds from a flute player through these monitors

If the type of music your mixing dictates accurate subsonics add the Adam sub to the A7's. A set up like that will blow the Behringers away and blow you out of any small contol room.

If you really must have a set of Truths, their is a Behringer sub in my closet I"ll sell you very cheap.

[emdub123]

I own the Behringer Truth 2031A active monitors. They are a bit hyped sounding, but what I mix translates to the car, ipod and home stereo accurately. You can very easily account for the hyped sound and adjust the eq accordingly.

Recently one of the monitors started to go out intermittently (problem later went away on it's own) and I began shopping for monitors. Spent about 90 minutes in the monitor/recording room at Guitar Center with the Yamaha HS80m, Adam A7, Rockit 8 and Mackie HR824. The Mackie and the Rockit were very quickly eliminated. The mackie just sounded bad and the Rockit just sounded muffled. These weren't even close to the other two sound-wise.

The HS80m sounded very similar to the 2031A that I already have, but less hyped. An excellent monitor. The Adam A7, however, was the clear winner. Over the span of about 30 minutes of listening to my own demo as well as a couple other cds I pulled from the car, the Adam just presented everything much more clearly. Not hyped, not "exciting", it just sounded accurate and it became the most trustworthy speaker. That's what we're looking for in our monitors, right? A trustworthy presentation. Yamaha was a good value, but the Adam was without question the finest of the four speakers I listened to on that day.

If I was in a situation where I was being paid a large sum of money for my work, I'd own the Adam's, but since that's not the case, I'll probably buy the yamahas when my Behringers do give up the ghost. If you look at their prices, they both kind of reflect this difference. The Adam A7 costs about $300 more for the pair, right?

[vyero]

Behringer all the way!!!!!!!

Flexible and reliable... perfect for a Home Studio.

[vyero]

Originally Posted by emdub123

The Adam A7 costs about $300 more for the pair, right?

Actually the Adam monitors are $700 each ($1400 for the pair)
The Behringer monitors are around $300 for the pair... QUITE A DIFFERENCE!!