Need any advise on monitors ppl from gearslutz! any comment/Help is welcome!

[brubru]

alright! first of all, thanks for entering the thread! i know theres lots of posts refering to monitors , a7's, bm's, mackies ....i've read most of them so THANKS for helping me out with this one!!

As i just said i've been following many threads on this forum analyzing and reading different opinions about diff monitors... so, i've ended up creating an account to end my research about it and make a proper final decision.

My name is Bru & im from barcelona. I mainly produce dubstep/hip hop / neo soul / wonky ... so as u may know by now, with those generes i do need monitors that reproduce low ends properly!

my studio room is aproximately 4x4 and acoustically treated.

After this little introduction with some info , i think im ready to present my dilemma here ! let's go!

mackies hr824 mk2 : huge bass response, never heard them myself but for what i've read , mids are not very defined neither the highs,( at least as much as the adams). BUT no sub needed if i go with them so, less problems positioning the sub properly etc. plus i've never worked with a sub, so don't really know how that performs & if its really worth it.

a5x + sub7 combo :i've read very nice things about this combo and its cheaper than if i go with the mackies, BUT adding a sub as i mentioned before.. it's new to me. i've this combo in mind because i've not read anything reporting that te a5x suffering from port noise, as the adam a7x do ( at least that is whats on the net) & the only thing i've read about this combo is that is superb!!! very well balanced generally. whats scares me here is the lack of power because i might move to a newer place which will be about 36m2 soon & don't know if it'll be enough power to cover that space.

a7x + sub 8 : THIS is what im really after.. but the port noise scares me that much that im looking for alternatives & im posting all this.If the port noise didn't exist i'd already have this combo by now.The thing is, if i cross over the adams with the sub lets say around 60hz i would send the low freq towards the sub leaving the a7x free to reproduce the mids & highs right?? so no port noise would happen as they don't reproduce any low freq ,right? i've reached this conclusion myself... but im kinda noob on this so,,, would this work like i just said??

these are the three posible options i've come up after months of researching and a lot of nights reading & reading posts. even after contacting the adam team via email, they told me they're going to release flanges "shortly" but still...

so, these are my 2 cents about my biiiiiig dilemma .

I want to let you all know that im open to alternatives, all kind of comments , corrections.. experincies.. everything! i just want to take the right decision as we're talking about more than 1,5 grand im gonna spend here & i want this set up to help me with my productions for a few years!

Thanks very much for reading and helping out with your experiences if you have any of the set ups mentioned above!!

also, sorry if theres any grammar fault, english is not my first language!

much love to gearslutz & hope i get some nice debate goin on here!


Thanks!!

best, Bru.

[brubru]

cmon!!! anyone???

[brubru]

lol. any1???? 52 visits but 0 comments???? :/// im disapointed

[amfortas2006]

Try writing shorter questions

[brubru]

i had to expose my point properly.. i think its the better way to get an accurated answer

[Ernest Buckley]

Originally Posted by brubru

my studio room is aproximately 4x4 and acoustically treated.

Use headphones if your room is that small. Seriously.

I have owned the Mackie HR824s since 1998 and I love them. They are extremely revealing so if you can get something to sound good on these, they translate well. Any monitors you go with will take some time to learn so my advice when going with monitors is to buy the ones you actually like listening to music on. Play some of your favorite albums on the contenders and whichever monitor sounds best, go with those.

[lcressy]

Really, I think you have done your research and know what you need. Any of the combo's that you listed will work, it's just going to be a process of learning the monitors. I use Dynaudio BM5a's with a sub and am happy with them. I think you just need to make a decision and go from there. It is too subjective. What works for me, may not work for you and vice versa. Using a sub will help you hear what is really going on below 50hz, as opposed to guessing about it.

[Ernest Buckley]

Originally Posted by lcressy

Really, I think you have done your research and know what you need. Any of the combo's that you listed will work, it's just going to be a process of learning the monitors. I use Dynaudio BM5a's with a sub and am happy with them. I think you just need to make a decision and go from there. It is too subjective. What works for me, may not work for you and vice versa. Using a sub will help you hear what is really going on below 50hz, as opposed to guessing about it.

I should have mentioned that in my original post... I love the BM6s as well. They would replace the 824s if and when the time came for that. Very focused low end and very nice detail in the mids and highs.

[brubru]

Originally Posted by Ernest Buckley

Use headphones if your room is that small. Seriously.

i meant 4x4 meters , 16m2. which is 13 x 13 feet... i have a lot of acoustic foam and 4 rockwool panels i made myself with 4 inch thick auralex foam over them.. is it really that small??

thanks for the comment anyways !! i like mackies & i come from them ( mr8) but i just love the acurracy & the analitic sound of the adams... they just let you go inside your track and fix whatever it is!! & due to the ribbon tweeter, they 're sooo revealing,,

[brubru]

Originally Posted by lcressy

Really, I think you have done your research and know what you need. Any of the combo's that you listed will work, it's just going to be a process of learning the monitors. I use Dynaudio BM5a's with a sub and am happy with them. I think you just need to make a decision and go from there. It is too subjective. What works for me, may not work for you and vice versa. Using a sub will help you hear what is really going on below 50hz, as opposed to guessing about it.

hmm nice point.. im scared of going with any sub option because i imagine myself dealing with loots of bass problems & going crazy about them.. but i might think about it after what u told me "Using a sub will help you hear what is really going on below 50hz, as opposed to guessing about it." more than being inside of a boom boom box with low definition on the lows(what i tought) thanks very much!!

[brubru]

Originally Posted by Ernest Buckley

I should have mentioned that in my original post... I love the BM6s as well. They would replace the 824s if and when the time came for that. Very focused low end and very nice detail in the mids and highs.

hmm i'll have to check the bm6a out! i've never heard a dynaudio speaker!

thanks!!

[ReSeRe]

my 2 cents...
but 1st: before, i advise you to SEARCH this forum. if u'll take time to read to understand, to discern, u'll find an apropiriate answer, otherwise, your thread will become another buy that. dont that, this! what? this? others u should check! u know?
2nd. listen and compare them. best in your workplace.
3rd. go a3/5x + sub. or cms 40/50 with sub.
A7/8x or cms 50/65 don't need a sub usually. BUT for low check buy good cans. if doesn't fits u, go with sub later.
4th. some love, some hate adams. same with genelec and so on.
5th. listen. compare. work. good luck.