Who uses which monitor speakers?

[Kingston]

I'm gonna have to say a few words about Dynaudio BM6A's. Worked with HR824 for few years before settling down with these. I could've bought genelecs, too.

Anyway, I had always experieced slight fatigue with the HR824, it's this weird high mid inaccuracy that I can point out more easily nowadays. I always had to play them just slightly too loud to hear more detail.

Very opposite with the Dyns, there is no fatique, and the whole freq range sounds sweet. The imaging is possibly the most accurate within various surrounding price ranges. Their transient response will have your ears ringing in no time (it's a bit too much at times).

I've heard similar things about the adam range, but never heard them myself. Apparently they sound quite different to dyns though.

The genelec two-way range seems to suffer from a very accurate, yet harsh top end overall. It can be slightly fatiquing. Same with few of their big main monitors. It's a shame really because they're really expensive.

Anyway, I only started improving as a mixer after having worked with Dyns, whatever that means.

YMMV

maybe I should add this little warning about very accurate studio monitors and their usage.

When I first got these, I had gotten used to playing the mackies quite loud with no problems. After about two weeks I noticed a weird new fatique. I tried fixing it in the mix, but only later realized that I had been playing the monitors *way* too loud. My ears were ringing. Its seems that the less loudspeaker like transient response had been literally drilling a hole to my ears.

It was a bit difficult at first because increased loudness didn't mean increased distortion anymore...

[Emerald Tablet]

these do for me
im not to good at mixing and my ears aren`t so good either - but at times i have a reasonable mix

still improving - one day i will buy myself the absolute 0 nearfields.

[Rozzer]

I use a pair of powered KRK V4s here.

I tried the HR624s, and as Kingston said, found them fatiguing over time. The KRKs I could listen to endlessly, but I can still trust them completely.

I, like many people, started with the Absolute 2's. I could never get the bass right on those monitors. You get what you pay for.

R zzer

[mauseoleum]

the smallest genelecs1029 here. when fatigue, it's time for a coffebreak

[Jonas E]

Hello. I use a pair of Genelec S30:s as nearfield monitors, a couple of Infinity Alhpa for general listening in the studio, and a pair of QLN HD-2 for hi fi-listening. The Genelecs are great if you can afford them because they have a very revealing sound without being overly obnoxious (like for instance Tannoy Reveal).


/Jonas