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anyone use little auratones or mixcubes.

  • 09-01-2010 3:18pm
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    i57dwun4yb1pt8
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    im thinking of getting a small fullrange speaker for checking general audio gear mixes , maybe just one for mono , has anyone tried / or suggest a model ?


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  • #2
    PaulBrewer
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    The Avantones are the 'new' Auratones .

    My close personal friend Philip Newell wrote an article in Studio Sound Magazine in about 2000 (shortly after the NS10 was continued ) comparing by measurement the then current batch of monitors.

    Most did ok on frequency response but only two excelled on the incredibly important impulse response.

    The sealed boxed NS10 and Auratones.

    My own view is that for the few of times a session the Mono button is pressed a mono signal to two speakers tells you all you need to know.

    Hence Auratones and the new Avantones (nothing to do with the originals except size and how they work) both come in pairs.

    Auratones (or Horrortones as they were known) we're invariably used as a balancing tool.

    AKG made a similar pair BSM50s or something ?


  • #3
    madtheory
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    There is a pdf floating around of the research Mr. Newell did. He updated it a couple of years ago in Resolution mag. Well worth reading, very illuminating. John Watkinson shares a similar view about transient response, sealed boxes etc.

    I had Auratones for a while. I found them excellent for checking mixes, definitely. The only issue I had was that they tended to make the vocal very prominent. Certainly a useful tool. If I remember rightly from the SOS review, the Avantones are not the same thing at all.

    Two speaker mono can be very misleading, single speaker mono is better.


  • #4
    Ronan Murphy
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    I use an old set of computer speakers for this purpose.


  • #5
    iquinn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 176 ✭✭iquinn


    Thomas barefoot put a DIY spec on the John Sayers forum a few years ago, it's on my very long to do list:

    http://www.johnlsayers.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=297
    You used to have to sign up the forum to see the design drawings and pics, not sure if you still have to.


  • #6
    PaulBrewer
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    iquinn wrote: »
    Thomas barefoot put a DIY spec on the John Sayers forum a few years ago, it's on my very long to do list:

    http://www.johnlsayers.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=297
    You used to have to sign up the forum to see the design drawings and pics, not sure if you still have to.

    Cool - I don't understand the filter - is it just a hi-pass ?


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  • #7
    iquinn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 176 ✭✭iquinn


    PaulBrewer wrote: »
    Cool - I don't understand the filter - is it just a hi-pass ?

    not sure, certainly looks that way.


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