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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

--- In logic-ot@yahoogroups.com, "HKC" <hkc@s...> wrote:
> I'm thinking about buying Genelec 1030A active, powered
> monitorspeakers.
> 
> 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. 

Yes, I think this is adressing one of the real secrets to finding the 
right pair of speakers to mix on - the mixes have to translate to 
other systems in other rooms. Therefore, it is really important to 
know the strengths and weaknesses of your speaker/room combination, 
to vary volume when mixing, walk around your control room - they all 
have peaks and dips, and the smaller the control room, the greater 
the difficulties in the bass end - indeed, the smaller control rooms 
can have modal problems extending right out of the bass end into 
frequency areas which can affect vocals. No matter what set of 
speakers you choose, you have to get to know them REALLY WELL before 
you can trust yourself to mix other peoples music on them. Me? 
Genelec 1031 + 1092 sub, for about the last 10 years ....and I would 
be very tempted to get a set of 5 1030's for surround .....ah well, 
one can dream ....

kind regards

Mark Cahill