Help choosing monitors

decklyn · Post by **decklyn** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 4:40 am

oh man hamwings. I love hamwings.
I know what I'm eating tomorrow night!

flippo · Post by **flippo** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 4:52 am

Egg and bacon
Egg, sausage and bacon
Egg and spam
Egg, bacon and spam
Egg, bacon, sausage and spam
Spam, bacon, sausage and spam
Spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam
Spam, spam, spam, egg, and spam
Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam
Lobster thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce garnished with truffle paté, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam

casino · Post by **casino** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 7:21 am

Auan wrote:
unklefesta wrote:I never heard of a baconsteak, tbh
You haven't lived.

Served with either a fried egg or pineapple ring on top, with chips (big, meaty chips, not fries) or mashed potato, usually with peas as well. Along with Shepherd's pie, a ploughman's, and a beef hotpot, gammon steaks are the kind of food you can expect to be served in any pub older than 20 years in the whole of Britain.

And this guy just touched one.

is this for breakfast or for dinner? peas and mash potatoes? eggs and bacon? kinda half way inbetween...

looks good though, i'd eat it...somebody fed-ex me a plate...

auan · Post by **auan** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 7:35 am

Totally for dinner. Too much fat and carbs to be a breakfast anywhere other than North America. They call it gammon 'steak' for a reason.

In my desperate student days I have eaten one between two slices of toast for breakfast, though.

dubsteppa · Post by **dubsteppa** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 2:55 pm

Auan wrote:
unklefesta wrote:hamsteak

got it
FFS do you guys think every kind of meat is 'ham'?

Hamburgers. Not ham. Hamsteaks. Not ham. What's next, ham drumsticks? Hamcakes?? HAM FUCKING WINGS???

...and relax.

LMFAO

miketm · Post by **miketm** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 7:27 pm

KRK's Rokit series are pretty much the hotness

thinking · Post by **thinking** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 8:50 pm

please please please use the Search function. If everyone did, we'd have one mammoth thread about monitors with lots of useful advice, instead of millions of threads all over the shop.

http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=32371

http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=11930

http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=25047

http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=19271

cryptic · Post by **cryptic** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 1:03 pm

two oh one wrote:
CRYPTIC wrote:Its all about the mackies
Erm, it's kind of not...

i dont know much about monitors, it would be useful to hear your verdict on them.

John Locke · Post by **John Locke** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 1:59 pm

Dynaudio BM5A's

Got 'em. Like 'em.

But freely admit my ears r a bit fucked...so use your own.

lkewis · Post by **lkewis** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 6:00 am

fliPPo wrote:
lkewis wrote:I am currently using standard speakers, but have a 15" car sub which is VERY loud and covers the sub low frequencies well, and I need the monitors for clearer sound of the mids and treble.
welcome to the forum mate.

I'm no expert and I certainly don't have good monitors myself, But spending money on high end monitors and then ruining them with a 15" car sub that's just going to make random earthquake noises is not a good idea IMO. Every 15" car sub I've ever heard is clearly designed to make predestrians stop and look around, not acuratly replicate bass. Maybe you've got some crazy high end sub that's worth shitloads and actually is quality though! do you?

Yeah its a JBL W15GTi MKII if you're interested. It has a great frequency response with the sealed enclosure I have, and although it is designed to be used in a car space I angle it into the corner of my room and it throws the bass out heavy! No-one can understand where the sound comes from (mainly because bass is non directional) but there is a sweetspot in my room which is in the floorspace juss behind where my decks are. It helps amplify the sub low frequencies between 20-80 hz which you wont get from speakers except club standards. I would love to have a funktion1 system lol but that would be crazy. My friend Milo who built and owns the R:EVOLVE soundsystem has his 2-3k rig in his "bass"ment and its sounding awesome.

nuravehitcher · Post by **nuravehitcher** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 6:18 am

lkewis wrote: My friend Milo who built and owns the R:EVOLVE soundsystem has his 2-3k rig in his "bass"ment and its sounding awesome.

seconded

i'm looking at getting the tapco s8's with the sw10 sub. need them for djing and production, what do people think

sonictrauma · Post by **sonictrauma** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:21 am

It completely depends on your budget.

Both of us have Mackie Tapco S8 monitors & for the £250 - £280 they're retailing for, I'd say you'd be hard pushed to get better.

They're obviously not quite up to the Mackie 824's high standards, but they definitely offer sound quality approaching that of the 824s but for a great price.

I sound like I work for them, I know

Matt.

xor · Post by **xor** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:43 am

I use the Tapco S8s too - very happy with them. Nice that you can alter the treble and bass level output to work best with the room they're in.

I also have Dynaudio BM5s with a Hafler amp which were twice the price, but I only really use the S8s now.

As Sonic Trauma said, depends on budget though. Mackies if you have the dough, Tapcos if you don't, imo.

lkewis · Post by **lkewis** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 7:37 am

Cheers for the help guys! Gonna be making a purchase in the New Year methinks.

Ps. I know I should have searched for the existing threads on the subject, but appreciate the help anyway.

eliah · Post by **eliah** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 7:47 pm

u can get a pair of makie hr624 wich is similar to hr824 but more compact for arround 500 quid

if you havnt got that much tho alesis do sum well gud monitors:
http://www.alesis.com/product.php?id=110
that you wont pay as much for

two oh one · Post by **two oh one** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 7:53 pm

CRYPTIC wrote:
two oh one wrote:
CRYPTIC wrote:Its all about the mackies
Erm, it's kind of not...
How comes? The experience i have had with them has been tip top.

Please enlighten me

I've never met a pair of Mackies that I've liked.

I nearly bought a pair HR624s until they demoed the BM5As next to them and the difference was simply amazing.

The Mackies sounded like somebody had tried to make a pair of monitor speakers from dirty laundry in comparison. Woolly, fuzzy jumpers.

tremourz · Post by **tremourz** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:01 pm

keep in mind you need to treat your room a bit if you really want to reap the benfits of a good studio monitor

__________ · Post by **__________** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:51 pm

two oh one wrote: The Mackies sounded like somebody had tried to make a pair of monitor speakers from dirty laundry in comparison. Woolly, fuzzy jumpers.

you always use adjectives that lloyd grossman would be proud of.

fused_forces · Post by **fused_forces** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 1:33 am

Hamsteaks indeed! ha ha!

i use Samson rubicon 5a's.

Won awards two years runnin for best monitor in there range.

They go for about 260 a pair.

If they sound a lil cheap the 6a's pack just as much clarity.

Safe

Fused Forces

vadarfone · Post by **vadarfone** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 3:22 pm

well, to be fair, monitors are not designed to sound pleasing. They are designed to tell the truth (in a perfect world/room)

So... If one sounds better than the other in the shop, it does not really have any bearing at all on how good a monitor they are.

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