<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Artem Vakhitov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:temcat@mail.ru">temcat@mail.ru</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 21.10.2011 16:39, Artem Vakhitov wrote:<br>
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Hi all,<br>
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can you recommend me some inexpensive but good small monitors and<br>
headphones for home recording? No high aspirations yet, just for doing<br>
various demos on my laptop. Admittedly, I don't know how to define<br>
"good" here, I just need them to be perceptibly better than your average<br>
desktop speakers and earbuds :) Similarly, I don't really know what<br>
"inexpensive" is referring to the above, but as a wild guess, let's<br>
start from $100. I prefer plain audio solutions, though will consider<br>
USB ones (my Samsung Q70 has two US ports only, so that puts some<br>
limitations).<br>
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BTW, I use M-Audio Firewire Solo as my audio interface, if that matters somehow.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I also have a M-Audio Firewire Solo. šI don't know how much experience you've had with yours, but if you haven't updated the firmware on it then I would strongly advise against doing it. šIf you have, then you already understand the pain.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For monitors I have a pair of M-Audio BX5a's. šWhen I'm recording and need some isolation I have a pair of Sennheiser HD 280 pro headphones and for double checking mixes I have a pair of Sennheiser HD 595 (open air) headphones. Of course this all costs more than $100, but I'd consider it all "budget" class and it doesn't suck.</div>
<div><br></div><div>--Steve</div></div>