I can only speak with first hand experience about the Mackie
self-powered monitors but they are truly great. I have used them for
years and find them to be a very high quality product and a very
reasonable price tag. Just one man's opinion.
AA
Arthur Gaer wrote:
> How about self-powered (home)"studio" monitors like these from M-Audio:
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> http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/StudiophileAV40.html
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> There are similarly priced powered monitors from Samson and Alesis,
> and if one is willing to go to $300 to $400 for a pair one can get
> nice monitors from Mackie, KRK, Yamaha, Behringer, and Edirol in
> addition to heftier speakers from the first three vendors.
>
> Arthur Gaer
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> On Aug 7, 2009, at 2:36 PM, Tom Fine wrote:
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>> I have a client who is in the process of
>> format-converting/slicing/dicing a lot of content transferred from
>> their tapes last year. She is confined to a small work area,
>> basically a somewhat sound-shielded cubicle. She asks, what are some
>> recommendations for small satellites/subwoofer computer speakers? Off
>> the top of my head I suggested Cambridge Audio but I'm sure there are
>> others that are good these days. Her budget is a couple hundred
>> dollars max. The listening requirement is more proof of concept than
>> critical listening. In other words, she's not messing with EQ or
>> compression but is doing lots of format conversion and will need to
>> be able to hear bad digital artifacts.
>>
>> Based on past and current experience, I cannot recommend anything
>> from "Altec Lansing" or Tascam in this format. Have not heard recent
>> entries from Logitech and other computer-store-oriented
>> manufacturers. I would assume Bose is too far from flat response to
>> be useful.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your recommendations!
>>
>> -- Tom Fine
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