in the market for some speakers...advice pls

wiwazevedo

wiwazevedo

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so. I listen to music all day. and I'm usually at the computer alot. I have a really nice setup in my room for my entertainment system with a nice amp and set of speakers but my desk is set up in another room. I do some music production but not enough to want to spend a ton of money on another amp and bookshelf speakers and whatnot. If I were looking to spend under 200 on a set of speakers and i wanted them to be pretty loud but good quality sound what should I buy?

powered subs are a plus cuz i listen/compose alot of trance. but ya thanks haha
 
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I concur with AV-40s. The low-end M-Audio speakers are decent - especially at that price range. I am also partial to a pair of smaller Event near-field monitors I have had for a few years now (Reference 5).

Are you looking for a good pair of studio monitors for mixing your music? Or, are you looking for just a nice pair of general computer speakers?
 
I am not familiar with that model. Are they made by M-Audio as well?

I do all my serious listening on a pair of JBL L-88 plus's from 1976. I also have a pair of L-36's from 1977. They are both monitors and sound amazing. I listen to alot of rock music (classic and new) and there is nothing better than vintage JBL's for rock.
 
The speakers I was referring to are manufactured by Event. I not sure if they make the Tuned Reference series any more. I have the baby brothers to these. You may still be able to find them from some resellers. I also have a pair of Genelec 1031As that I have used for my main monitors for a while.

Another series on my list of favorites would be the Tannoy dual-concentric models, the Precision series. I have always liked their clean sound for extended listening or mixing. Very little ear fatigue. But, as with most reference monitors like these (or the Genelecs)you aren't going to find anything in the $200 range unless they are used...well used.

Ahh...L88s...those are classics. Do you still have the original voice coils and cones on those? I helped set up a personal studio with something similar to the 88 Pluses. Sadly, they were re-coned several times before I got a chance to hear them.
 
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The speakers I was referring to are manufactured by Event. I not sure if they make the Tuned Reference series any more. I have the baby brothers to these. You may still be able to find them from some resellers. I also have a pair of Genelec 1031As that I have used for my main monitors for a while.

Another series on my list of favorites would be the Tannoy dual-concentric models, the Precision series. I have always liked their clean sound for extended listening or mixing. Very little ear fatigue. But, as with most reference monitors like these (or the Genelecs)you aren't going to find anything in the $200 range unless they are used...well used.

Ahh...L88s...those are classics. Do you still have the original voice coils and cones on those? I helped set up a personal studio with something similar to the 88 Pluses. Sadly, they were re-coned several times before I got a chance to hear them.
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I am more of a 3 way kind of guy. I love big full sound stages with alot of umph on the lows. The highs have to be tight as well.

The L88 Plus's(Plus makes it a 3 way) are the predecessors to the famous L100's. They have all the same drivers in them just called a different name. The Plus's are actually more rare because they only made them under that name for 6 months until they changed it to the name L100. If you can believe it or not the accordion gasket and all cones are the original ones. All drivers are 100 percent perfect. The cabinets on the other hand are in pretty rough shape and I am currently looking for replacements but they are so rare it is very hard to find any. The L36's are in perfect condition. The gaskets on the woofers though had to be replaced. (they are foam and it dried out) The cones are still the originals. I will take some pictures of the speakers tomorrow and post them.
 
Hmm, that would make sense. Now that you mention it, the speakers I installed were probably the L100s. I didn't know the L88s were only marketed as such for that short of time.

Very nice. I'm impressed that they have lasted all these years. I would be interested to know how close to spec they are after being in use for so long. I love a good worked in sound.
 
The L36's are what got me into the Vintage stuff. I bought them from a Vintage speaker collector. I paid only $300 for them and they came with all the original manuals, warranty card and receipt! He begged me to take care of them as he actually was the one that bought them brand new. He had some other Vintage speakers at the time but I didn't have alot of money so I wasn't able to buy anything else. He later passed on and I do not know what happened to his collection. He must have had over 50 different speakers sets. 99 percent of them were in storage but I was lucky he let me listen to some before I decided on the JBL's. I will never forget that day.
 
im not exactly sure. studio monitors would be wonderful to have but I still would like them to be able to function as general computer speakers. would they be able to play games and whatnot?
 
wiwazevedo said:
im not exactly sure. studio monitors would be wonderful to have but I still would like them to be able to function as general computer speakers. would they be able to play games and whatnot?
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The M-Audio's I recommended will be able to do everything you would want them to do. They sound amazing and are very accurate, making the sound in the game come to life. Alot of people use them with their computer.
 
Yes, you can use the studio monitors as general speakers as well. I have been using mine that way in my current setup. They work quite well. It just depends on how you hook them up.

Keep in mind that many studio near-field monitors are self powered (like all the models on the M-Audio page Thermal-Reactor provided). They can work fine by connecting them directly to your sound card, but you may want some form of volume control in between. Few studio monitors have a nice front panel volume control like the M-Audio AV-40s.

The AV-40s are really just a step up from standard computer speaker systems. The amplifier and volume controls are in the left speaker. More powerful studio monitors have individual amplifiers in each cabinet. Some even are bi- or tri-amped as well (one amplifier per voice coil). Also, they typically have no volume control other than an input attenuator on the back panel.
 
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