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I'm thinking about buying Genelec 1030A active, powered
monitorspeakers.


I\ufffdd say that comparing speakers that cost 3 or 4 times what a pair of 1030A
does is a bit unfair. I mean I\ufffdm sure that anyone would rather have a pair
of ADAM 2.5 but they cost almost 4000 $. Within the same price bracket of
the Genelecs there are a lot of alternatives like Event, Mackie, Dynaudio,
Blue Sky and there doesn\ufffdt seem to be a winner here, they\ufffdre all good (or
bad depending on what you\ufffdre after). In the end all that matters is that
what you think sounds good in your studio also sounds good and pretty much
the same outside of it. Personally I think that any of these will do as long
as you also have an alternate pair of speakers like ie the horrible sounding
NS10s, there\ufffds a lot of truth in the line "if it sounds good on them it will
sound good on anything". One thing that also complicates this topic is that
unless you have a well acoustically adjusted room you\ufffdre probably better off
buying speakers especially for your room and not listen too much to anybody
else. If you\ufffdre mixes tend to be a little heavy in the low end, buy speakers
with not so enhanced low ends and vice versa.

Just my \ufffd cent
HKC

>I'm thinking about buying Genelec 1030A active, powered
>monitorspeakers.
>
>
>IZd say that comparing speakers that cost 3 or 4 times what a pair of 1030A
>does is a bit unfair. I mean IZm sure that anyone would rather have a pair
>of ADAM 2.5 but they cost almost 4000 $. Within the same price bracket of
>the Genelecs there are a lot of alternatives like Event, Mackie, Dynaudio,
>Blue Sky and there doesnZt seem to be a winner here, theyZre all good (or
>bad depending on what youZre after). In the end all that matters is that
>what you think sounds good in your studio also sounds good and pretty much
>the same outside of it. Personally I think that any of these will do as long
>as you also have an alternate pair of speakers like ie the horrible sounding
>NS10s, thereZs a lot of truth in the line "if it sounds good on them it will
>sound good on anything". One thing that also complicates this topic is that
>unless you have a well acoustically adjusted room youZre probably better off
>buying speakers especially for your room and not listen too much to anybody
>else. If youZre mixes tend to be a little heavy in the low end, buy speakers
>with not so enhanced low ends and vice versa.
>


I don't know.  If you have a tendency to mix bottom heavy I think it 
is better to get bottom heavy speakers just to help keep you from 
over doing it.

Anyway in that vein I no longer go along with if it sounds good on 
NS10 it will sound good on anything  line.  NS10s hype certain 
frequencies and if you adjust your mix to that hyped sound you are 
going to get mixes that sound a little flat and dull on truer none 
hyped speakers.