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this also applies to any lower end monitor. has anyone ever notices how much cabinet resonance these things have? has anyone ever disassembled them and added and sort of internal bracing or dampening to the cabinets in their monitors? what about upgrading the tiny tiny gauge speaker wire inside?

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Hawkeye Mon, 08/30/2004 - 13:11

dancetheirdance wrote: this also applies to any lower end monitor. has anyone ever notices how much cabinet resonance these things have? has anyone ever disassembled them and added and sort of internal bracing or dampening to the cabinets in their monitors? what about upgrading the tiny tiny gauge speaker wire inside?

Feel free to disagree, but that's why I always thought that a good consumer mini-monitor like Paradigm Mini Monitor, PSB Alpha, Rogers or Spendor LS3/5a (based on BBC monitor design) was a bonafide alternative to most of the inexpensive near-field monitors you can buy from the "pro" manufacturers. If you have to go cheap on monitors, the consumer versions from good companies such as Tannoy, Infinity, Polk, Proac are a very viable choice.

Things like small guage wiring and lack of dampening are very indicative of a calibre of construction that even value-oriented audiophiles would not put up with.