Speakers? Which low budget monitors to get?

[Rupert Hopkins]

Hi,

I'm looking for a set of low budget studio/reference monitors for video editing. Ideally I want to spend less than £500

Has anyone used the KRK Rokit series? I was thinking possibly of grabbing the rokit 6s?

Ru

 

[Michael Lindsay]

... I am not an Audio guy but have ok ears and have set up quite a few edit rooms.

the very boreing fact (that is unavoidable and painful) is that the room is really important... shape, size, furnature and speakers/listener position are all such big factors that you are not guarenteed anything like the results that anyone else is getting with the same speaker... (I learnt this the hard way ;-)

Recently in one suite I went to spend 3-5k on speakers but ultimatley failed to get a good sound and invested in treatment instead ..... I needed to mic measure the room and invest a fair bit with GIK Acoustics gikacoustics.com to get a half desent result. I am now using some old Mackie 824s (that I had retired) instead of the new speakers I tried 1st.

what I will say is that speakers that are flexable in positioning and very tweakable are better to go for unless this is what you do for a living...

I can recomend these as they seemed very easy to position and work in not great conditions... Neumann KH120A. I put them in our little suit and it sounds pretty good..

they are a bit above your allocated budget but do seem very good.. they seem easier on the ears than the standard Genelecs..

good luck

M

 

[Chris McKechnie]

I love my Truth B2031's by Behringer. Got them used off of Craigslist for like $150 for the pair. AMAZING deal!

 

[Scott Brown]

Genelec all the way for us...they are very neutral and show up any weaknesses in your mixes.

Scott

 

[Marc Wielage]

The newer Genelecs are very good, but they're a lot more than $500. Excellent speakers, though.

 

[Dominik Muench]

Yamaha Ns-10M, get them cheap of ebay and absolutely fantastic. you will need an Amp to run these babies though.

 

[M.Halsell]

The Yamaha series produce good clarity, response, detail and tend to give me less fatigue during long edit/mix sessions. I think they are pretty neutral and dont color the audio too much. Others may disagree, but I have good success.

 

[Marc Wielage]

Yamaha Ns-10M, get them cheap of ebay and absolutely fantastic. you will need an Amp to run these babies though.

Although they stopped making NS-10M Studio speakers about 15 years ago since the drivers were no longer available. There are current-model Yamahas that claim to match the performance of the NS-10M's, but it's a controversial area.

JBL Pro LSR4300 monitors are extremely good and an excellent choices for small mixing rooms. I'm not a fan of the smaller JBL "Control" series monitors, but there are worse speakers out there. None of these sell for $500. Heck, I paid more than $500 for a pair of Yamaha NS-10Ms in 1988.

 

[Joe Taylor]

The KRK Rokits are a great investment solution and put out a hell of a kick. I have the Rokit 8's.

 

[Eric Bowen]

KRK's are accurate and excellent quality for the price. They are more than enough for audio monitoring with video production and what I recommend to most editors.

 

[Hugh Scully]

I have Adam F7s and I really like them, especially for dialog mixing. Very flat and faithful. They make a 5" version also which fall close to your desired price range.

 

[Savva Svet]

Taking the question further...what's a good audio interface to connect such speakers to your computer station (MAC)?

 

[Eric Bowen]

I would start by looking at Steinberg interfaces. They are USB and drivers are solid besides having decent converter quality. RME would be one of the industry standards but far more expensive than Steinberg.

 

[Andreas Mendritzki]

I have Adam F7s and I really like them, especially for dialog mixing. Very flat and faithful. They make a 5" version also which fall close to your desired price range.

Yep.

if you can't afford something higher end (like the AX series) the Adam F's are the best bang for the buck on the marked right now

 

[Mike Quill]

Get a pair of Quad '57s!

 

[Michael Jensen]

I use the Adam A7X's with a 10" Adam sub in one room and Genelecs in another. The Adams are by far my favorite.