I’m looking to invest in some active monitors having been using passive Dynaudio BM5’s for the last 8 years… I’m hoping to audition some Mackie HR824 mk2’s and some Adam A8X’s soon. I’ve read great reviews on the Adams and mixed reviews about the Mackies.br
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Does anyone have any advice on which would be more suitable for me predominantly creating Progressive house and techno? br
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Or any other active monitors for under £1000 should I be listening to?br
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Cheers!
i had mackie hr824mk1’s. i A/B’d them next to rokit monitors with progressive house track and i liked the mackie’s better. however, i grew out of the mackie’s.br
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about 1.5 years ago i upgraded to focal 6be’s with a sub 6be. the mackies were great but the focals take it to another level of mixing imo.br
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i haven’t heard adams but i’ve seen decent reviews on them…
I would try and listen to as many sets of speakers as possible./PPThe reason i say this, is speaker preference is so subjective./PPI listened to the Event Opal’s and wasn’t that impressed - even though so many people seem to say they are absolutely amazing!
Do you have a really good shop you can go to, where you can audition loads of sets of speakers?
Thanks for your replies,br
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Yes, there’s a digital village in Acton where I can try out a few monitors… Of course it’s subjective in many respects but I feel I am more likely to prefer a speaker that sounds ‘good’ to me, rather than one that might be more revealing and therefore a better speaker for mixing… Definitely going to check out the Focals and Opal too.br
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Cheers!
Im thinking of buying the Adam A7x for a while now. And they are very impressive in every review and everything. They compair the A7x to A8x in a few of them and for some reason the A7x seems to be better in almost every single way. On thomans site they have reviews on both.
I thought the Focal Twin BE’s were really nice when i heard them.
[quote]davidmclean (15/02/2013)[hr]I thought the Focal Twin BE’s were really nice when i heard them.[/quote]br
I really would love to listend to them, I have only heard great things about them and the solo. But they are EXPENSIVE !
Btw, BT has an album called ‘These Hopeful Machines’ and it has some incredible detail (especially in track 1 called ‘suddenly’). Perhaps check it out on the monitors you demo.
[quote]lonewolf (16/02/2013)[hr][quote]davidmclean (15/02/2013)[hr]I thought the Focal Twin BE’s were really nice when i heard them.[/quote]BRI really would love to listend to them, I have only heard great things about them and the solo. But they are EXPENSIVE ![/quote]/PPBut having heard them, i would say they are worth the money, if you can stretch your budget that far./PPValue fornbsp;money is what counts, and i think these are great value for money as thought they had a lovely sound.nbsp;
Ofc, if you can stretch your budget that far, i would go for “the best i can buy” with whatever budget i have! Im thinking about upgrading my speakers m audio Bx5a and my starting budget was around 500€ thinking about getting the KRK rokit 8 and now its 1k€ and problably going for the Adam A7x. br
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, The Focal 6 twin BE is like 1500€ a popbr
They also have the Focal 6 solo for 900 € each.
After looking more into it, Events Opals just seem fu…ing fantastic!. Mby i should save up for them instead. Seems like a better solution to save up for them than to just buy a pair for 1k and in a year or two mby i want to upgrade it to a pair for 2-4 k better to just invest in them straight away then they will problably last for more than a few years!