Re: [LAU] monitor specifications

On 8 January 2012 13:01, Brendan Jones <brendan.jones.it(a)gmail.com> wrote: Sometimes a decent budget off-the-shelf monitor will actually save you money and giev you decent performance, especially if you can get a deal from somewhere or a well-looked-after 2nd hand one. My brother has a pair of Genelecs and for one of his friends he was ordering a B-stock Alesis M1 510s (effectively they were as good as new but the box was damaged). They arrived a day late and missed him flying out to his friend and meanwhile his friend got fed up from waiting and got himself something else for more and I ended up with the monitors and I have been using them since '07 pretty happily. My ears can't hear the difference between these £100 monitors and the ~£1000 Genelecs (on the other hand I spent my youth playing guitar in very loud bands so Mitra knows how much I lost the edge of my hearing by now). On the other hand they are perfectly usable and have a decent writeup in SoS (http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug06/articles/alesism1.htm). Even though I like the DIY approach, I am hugely sceptical about all of these pseudo-scientific claims most of the builders have.