23 Jul
2004
23 Jul
'04
4:51 p.m.
--- Steve Harris <S.W.Harris(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
It's been several years so I don't recall much of what
my business partners and I learned. The one brand was
Blue Moon or Blue Oyster Moon Cult or some such name.
As I recall, they included a sub or sub and center
speaker or something. A friend recommended them. I
listened to them at another friend's pro audio retail
store and compared them with a bunch of other models.
I'm not shy about giving my critique and asking
questions about anything I'm gonna buy. After
subjecting the store owner/friend to Chinese water
drip torture, he named two or three of the brands we
listened to and said they were designed by video
companies and suggested that we not purchase those
products.
While my two partners and I did the right thing, we
still ended up with junk--Mackie HR824.
Maybe the only thing I've learned is that I'd aproach
another purchase decision the same way and hope for
better luck next time. Another thing, the fact that M1
Actives don't sound as awesome as the HR824 is one
small factor in a list of events and products that
determines quality of final product. Cheap monitors
don't dictate that final product sucks anymore than
great monitors always produce awesome results.
I like reading about Paul Winkler's discovery of
alternative monitors. It makes perfect sense to me.
OK, am I gonna get more business because I own
$4,000.00 monitors? Twenty years of experience tells
me the answer is a resounding no. Nobody cares what
kind of monitors I use as long as the master sounds
great in their car.
Well, my rant is beginning to smell of moon shine.
ron "the anticonsumer" parker
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On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 11:42:33PM -0700, R Parker
wrote:
Did you notice a loss of volume in the cabinet that's
bad? I have one that's -5db from the other. Or maybe
the loud one is actually getting better with time and
the other one will eventually begin to improve too. Ya
think?
Hey, if one is beyound repair (probably dictated by
cost of repair vs purchase of new) then the good one
is your Center for surround. Haven't we vascilated
long enough within a surroundless world?
I've got a pair of Alesis M1 Active and a
pair of
Mackie HR824.
I love the Alesis because they are cheap and
tougher
than nails. Mine have been abused to no end for
about
four or five years. I can mix on these things
until my
eyes fall out.
I did that too, and now one of mine is dead :( Still
I think there were
very good, and if its not fixiable I will buy more. My suspicion is that they didn't like being
switch
on and off at the wall
socket - which I've been doing daily for a few
years. I have a big
swichbox that controls 10+ sockets, including my
monitors. Probably a bad
idea.
I never turn mine off. I turn my DM-24 off because its
power supply is a veritable hot dog broiler.
When I
purchased the HR824 I compared them to
about
eight other leading studio monitor manufacturers
products--I'm not talking about the super high end
stuff. The comparisons were all done in the same
room.
I used a half dozen CDs with million dollar
productions. Hands down, they sound better than
all
the others. I was really impressed by how bad
some
monitors sounded. There's a couple monitor
manufacturers getting very good reviews but their
product is garbage. A little research revealed
that
these manufacturers are not audio experts, they
are
video experts designing audio monitors.
Which ones do you think are crap out of interest? Phreak the
chains, ride the trains, why not you,
why
not me, choosing monitors is a crazy lottery,
you
spin, you win, you loose, you choose; blah:blah,
blah:blah, blah, blop!
Wow Ron, I can smell the coffee from here ;)
- Steve