I will never sell my mix cubes.

Here’s my POV on them:

• Your ears take a few minutes to adjust to speakers without tweeters.
• Until I used them, I found it hard to imagine how great something missing a tweeter would be so beneficial.
• They keep you focused on the mids,
• Once your ears get used to no tweeters, You learn to curve your mids better.
• After you do a successful mix, they leave you realizing how distracting tweeters are.

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the thing about mixcube type speakers is there's no crossover to create phase anomalies. i like NS10 types because they are a worst case scenario. if it sound good on the NS10s it will sounds good anywhere. Auratones and NS10's and then something big assed (even a set of PA mains) that gets loud and goes tingie tingie woffie woofie. i had Tannoy 12's but i was also fond of those big JBL 4430' s with the bi radial tweeters.

cool, i appreciate you guys' thoughts. im gonna set my sights on acquiring both. i noticed Joe Barresi had both sitting on his console, on a video the other day, so thats kinda what sparked the question. ive been obsessed with "mains" since using the urie 813c's. maybe ill look into a set of qsc k12/15's since those are my favorite PA style speakers. im thinking the Yamaha HSMs or krk's might be redundant, since the hsm 5's are in the vein of the ns-10's. QSC also makes some really killer looking theater speakers, which have been on my hit list for quite some time. they range from 1200-3k per speaker.

avantone makes the knock of ns's and mixcubes, thats what im considering. ill probably start with the mixcubes in a month or two since the price tag is lower.

has anyone heard of jolida amps? they from Maryland, and make tube based dacs and amps for the hifi sector. they have a 10w stereo amp that looks like it could be pretty cool, and versatile. probably significantly under powered for the ns-10's, or mains, they;d probably fit well with he mix cubes, and bose floorstanding (4") front theater speakers. at $700 its not particularly cheap or expensive, and i noticed they'll do upgrades to it like caps ect, so it makes me think it could be good for me to learn about mods with.

http://www.jolida.com/product/glass-fx-10

Both are NOT ported. That makes them far less sensitive to placement.

Bob Olhsson, post: 462108, member: 900 wrote: Both are NOT ported. That makes them far less sensitive to placement.

Thats a good point. I decided to go with the mixcube(s) to get some more insight into the midrange. Cheers!