Best Monitors on a $350 budget?

[geeknik]

What do you guys recommend. Right now I have Edirol MA10's and I HATE them.

[McCheese]

Go get some good hi-fi speakers. Seriously. Take a good CD to a hi-fi store (NOT Best Buy or some crap like that) and listen to all the bookshelf speakers in your budget.

[geeknik]

Really?

I have an old Sony bookshelf system right now...

[frob]

go get a pair of senhiser 280hd (not corect spelling)

then save your money for a pair of yamaha msp5s if your spending anything less your not getting good monitors. and sometimes if your spending more your not getting good monitors. just do a search and you find all kind of talk of monitors.

[sharmon]

Just a question on this: Are M Audio monitors any good?

[Reggie]

They're workable. I do have to do more test mixes on them than I would like, but they are not terrible. I am possibly looking to sell some BX8's, which would fall under your price range. Yamaha MSP5's may be better, but will cost you about $200 above some used Bx8's and won't have as deep a low end.

I'm not sure even $350 in bookshelf hifi speakers would be suitable to mix on, although I'm not very knowledgeable about that market. I would just be careful to get some that have decent extended freq response, and not too hyped with a bump in the highs and lows. I think it would be tricky mixing, myself.

[geeknik]

These particular models are the ones I am looking at:

Alesis Monitor 1 Active MKII $349 @ MF

Event TR6 Tuned Reference 6 Active Monitors $399 @ MF

M-Audio BX8 $299

Behringer TRUTH B2030A $279

[hotboxdj]

I have the Bx8's.. They are good.. They have a good low end. I am not sure what you are using yours for, but I use my for radio production, as well as live mixes with my Turntables.


Get the Bx8's fast.. I think they are being discontinued..
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Brian

[McCheese]

Get the Bx8's fast.. I think they are being discontinued..
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Brian

M-Audio did a complete redesign on the BX series monitors, so the new ones are probably going to sound completely different from the old ones. The old ones (rounded front, non-kevlar woofer) are on clearance everywhere.

[frob]

the yamahas have plenty of low end. its just not exagerated.