active monitors home recording

James_M

Hi folks,

I'm painfully slowly putting together a home recording setup and I now want to sort out a pair of active monitors and would appreciate your views.

I'm thinking of going for Yamaha HS50M
http://www.thomann.de/ie/yamaha_hs50m.htm

Otherwise maybe Alesis M1 Active 520
http://www.thomann.de/ie/alesis_m1_active_520.htm

or M1 Active Mk2
http://www.thomann.de/ie/alesis_m1_aktiv_monitor_mk_ii.htm

As you can tell, this a budget / entry level setup so I don't want to go over this kind of cost (i.e. max EUR 250/300) - I appreciate people may figure "don't bother unless you're willing to spend X" but would appreciate any helpful thoughts!

Thanks!

DamagedTrax

yamaha.

stay away from those bloody alesis :eek:

PaulBrewer

I wouldn't rate the Yamahas or the Alesis at all as monitors.

To my ears the lowend is unreadable with any of those speakers (that is, hard to make decisions on) though good fun to listen to !


I see the Genelec 8020 are now with in your price range and I'd much prefer them.



My experience is that a lot of smaller speakers with ports (the bass hole on the back) can be very confusing on the bass end however the Genelec bass port design doesn't seem to suffer that.

PaulBrewer

Actually I'm mistaken .... the Genelecs are priced individually .... sorry!

DamagedTrax

PaulBrewer wrote: »

I see the Genelec 8020 are now with in your price range and I'd much prefer them.

damn, i wish i'd had monitors like the 8020s in my price range when i started out :cool:

i'll tell you what, quality kit is becoming more and more accesible these days.


EDIT: forget i said the above as paul is a numpty and threw me off my game

ICN

I think most people here will steer you towards the HS50's.

We recently had a game of soggy biscuit over the same topic.. LOL


http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055571618


Everyone pretty much loves them!

James_M

DamagedTrax wrote: »

yamaha.

stay away from those bloody alesis :eek:

Thanks. I figured a pair of Yamahas would be good bang for buck.

Might be a silly question but I'm currently using an Audigy Platinum Pro (yes thats on the list to be upgraded) and I'm trying to figure out how to connect the monitors. They don't appear to connect by source -> speaker 1 -> speaker 2. Do I need to split stereo mini-jack at the output to mono jack at each speaker?

PaulBrewer

DamagedTrax wrote: »

EDIT: forget i said the above as paul is a numpty and threw me off my game

Yup

James_M

Thanks for the input already! Can't keep up.
Nice to see the praise on the Yamahas. Point taken Paul but if there's nothing else worth jumping on in the price range they may be the ones for me to get going

PaulBrewer

James_M wrote: »

Thanks for the input already! Can't keep up.
Nice to see the praise on the Yamahas. Point taken Paul but if there's nothing else worth jumping on in the price range they may be the ones for me to get going

I know of nothing, so best of luck!

James_M

PaulBrewer wrote: »

I know of nothing, so best of luck!

I very much doubt that
Thanks though.

On my other query, here a pic of the I/O's

James_M

Yamaha's ordered along with a Y minijack to mono jack cable which should do the job.

Will let you know how it goes.

Off to see what I can dream of for next on the shopping list...

Cheers
James

studiorat

I like the alesis M1 Mk2's. Good monitor for the price. I find Genelecs far too prickley sounding, I'm sure they are grand an all just not for me.

You should also check out KrK monitors.