What is the best studio monitor speakers for under £1000 / $1300?
By studio monitors I’m assuming you are looking for powered speakers — active monitors.Roland’s right: Harbeth makes great stuff but it’s expensive. If you can find them used in your budget, grab them. Other speakers to consider in no particular order. Buying used will always help stretch you budget:FocalGenelecADAMDynaudioPMCATC
What are the best studio monitors?
The ones you try, the ones who fit your needs your style.Of course they are some technical specifications and brands and prices that come into account but for real the best studio monitors are the ones adapted to the room, the style , the habits and the ear of the person using them.Kanye West paid to create holes in the walls of a temporary studio (which was already properly equipped) in Paris in order to put his monitors. I would guess that many professional engineers , mastering technicians or even audiophiles would have their different answers on this matter.Of course there should be a objective difference when you go up in the level of prices for studio monitors but even that could be argued.For example I'm currently using the Yamaha HS 7 which are far from the best studio monitors ever even though they have good value for their price. However when trying the HS 8 I really didn't like the fact that they were bigger which affected the sound and didn't fit my needs. So sometimes bigger is not better more expensive either.Also remember that your audio system will always be as good as the worst part of it so don't put 2000$ on each monitor to have a 50$ soundcard plugged to it in a totally non symmetric room.I hope this helps even thought it might not be that precise.
What are the best studio monitor speakers?
There are many very fine makers of high end Studio Monitors.The prices may or may not surprise you.ATC Loudspeakers SCM 25A Pro: $8,000.00 a pairBarefoot Sound Micromain26: $11,250.00 a pairPMC Loudspeakers TwoTwo.6: $5,000.00 a pairAugspurger Duo-8 Minimain Pair with 12″ Sub Pair and 3 way amps: 20,500.00Genelec 8260A DSP Monitor: $12,000.00 a pairGenelec 1032B: $5,000.00 a pairMeyer HD1: $5,000.00 a pair (I love these)PMC Loudspeakers MB25-A: $69,000.00This is a short list of a few high end monitors that are used in the many of the finest recording studios around the globe.
What studio monitor speakers are best for mixing?
Your *very best* monitoring system wouldn’t be comprised of one speaker set but several.First, most big studios have a giant speaker that’s just plain awesome. B&W Diamond 802 would be a good choice for this, though I’d be partial to the Tannoy Royal series. I saw a studio with the OceanWay HR.2 powered by Manley amps.Assuming you didn’t want something in the 6 figure range, a more modest solution for this might be in wall speakers from EV or Tannoy… I’m partial to the iw 63 that I have in my theater with the matching Lab Grupen amps.Other favorites for this type of speaker would be JBL (although I’d shy away from them), Pelonis, Focal, and Genelec. I’d stick to dual-concentric speakers personally.Pelonis and Tannoy are easy on the ears, you’re going to want a second speaker set that’s a little more… harsh. This is what some people mean when they say studio monitors “sound bad.” You want a set of monitors that can represent some of the problems that normal listening situations can have like Yamahas. NS10 is a classic answer for this. Auratone 5c is even more brutal to your mix.If you prescribe to that theory, something can be said for mono too, and you may want a single auratone 5C in the room as well as your good monitors.So what would my dream setup be if money were no object? From outer to inner> OceanWay HR.2 > Tannoy Kingdom Royal > HS10 > mono Auratone 5CAnd to be crystal clear; I’d mix on the Tannoys for most of the legwork, then switch to the HS10 for a bunch of fine tuning and finally use the Auratone for those final adjustments before switching back to the OceanWays to “wow” the client.
What is the difference between Studio monitors and speakers?
Studio speakers are placed above the mixing console, one meter apart and one meter away from each ear of the audio engineer. These speakers are designed to faithfully reproduce all the audible frequencies at the same level. 'Pink Noise' is a tool that audio engineers use to set up and equalize a sound system for the best performance. Pink noise is a noise that contains all of the frequencies at once. Blue Noise is all lows and rolls down (in db level) as the frequencies increase. White Noise is all highs and rolls up as the frequencies (across a spectrum analyzer's scale) increase. These speakers are more expensive than your common book shelf units. You can use your book shelf speakers as studio monitors, but will require an equalizer to boost the frequencies that they tend not to reproduce well. Studio speakers are powered by a clean amplifier, like an Altec Lansing, BGW or a Crown. These units can be very expensive; so you might want to keep it simple. You can use most any amp for your app as long as it's clean. The equalizer will take care of any short comings of both the speakers and the amp you choose.
What are the best studio monitors for under $450 per pair?
If you’re looking to buy a new Studio Monitor, you are in luck. I just reviewed several Studio Monitors in a quest to find the Best Studio Monitor under 500 Dollars.If you can increase your budget by $50, you can find some really amazing Monitor Speakers and get started with your Audio Production.You can read the article here - Best Studio Monitors under 500 Dollars – Full GuideLet me know what you think of it and if you find it useful, do upvote this answer. :)
How do studio monitors and speakers differ?
Studio monitor should be "flat" in frequency response so that no range outweighs any other range. Low distortion is a goal as well.Studio monitors will make a bad recording sound bad, because that is what it truly is. The recording engineer uses monitors to make the best product and act as a magnifying glass for perfection in their work.Home High Fidelity speakers generally are tuned to make most recordings, even bad ones sound good. Extreme audiophile speakers ($10,000 plus) can sometimes be both monitors and listening speakers, but generally not. Audiophiles that can tell the types of distortions that they like and prefer the artistry of speakers and amplifiers tuned for the best sound that will work when playing back LP records, CDs (CDs are considered low fi now LOL), or 24 bit lossless audio files. Often audiophiles use tube amplifiers for the same reason; not because the tube amplifiers are more accurate, but because they overload in a different more artistic way then a digital amplifier.Hope this helps.
What studio monitors should I get?
Fairly new too producing music. I want to look into getting good monitors for a beginner. That being said. Budget isn't very high. What do you guys recommend? Keep in mind, I will be producing AND mixing on these. I was looking between the krk Rokit 5's..Yamaha HS5..and the M-audio bx5 Right now I'm leaning more towards the M-audio. I hear KRK is too muddy, and the HS5 lacks in the low end. ..so what o you all think of the bx5? Also I cannot buy a sub right now at all. The only acception I have to getting the yamaha hs7 is buying one monitor at a time...which seems pointless but is that a good idea to buy one monitor at a time? As far as my bedroom goes it is complicated. It is untreated. It's very big. And I mean VERY big. It goes from the back of my house all the way to the end of the front garage..I can have a light easy football catch with a friend no problem. My ceilings are very weird. My walls are only about 3 feet high then it starts to lean inwards. Reason It does this is because my ceiling is the roof of the house...if u understand what I'm saying lol. So yeah I'm really stuck. Any help is great thanks!
Can bookshelf speakers be used as studio monitors?
Any speakers can be used as studio monitors - if you don't care about quality. There's much more to quality monitors than frequency response. First of all, human hearing is in the range of 20 hz (Hertz - years ago, Cycles Per Second) to about 20,000 hz, or 20kHz, not mHz - "m" refers to Mega - Million - a thousand times higher frequency than the best human ears, and 40mHz is 2,000 times higher, so your upper number is way off. Read the specs again... Second, what makes for a good studio monitor is very much a matter of taste, so there are no absolutes. See here for a reasonably good discussion of parameters that qualify a speaker as a good "near-field" monitor: http://tweakheadz.com/studio-monitors/ The one thing most ears agree on is that studio monitors need to be accurate - not "colored" (reproducing some frequencies better than others) - in other words, "flat" throughout the range. And they are for listening within 3 - 5 feet or so (ideally) in an acoustically inert room. This just barely scratches the surface of why "bookshelf" speakers are not used in professional environments. Hope it helps, though...