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#1
Gear Corner / Re: Flat Response Studio Monitors?
August 14, 2010, 01:00:52 PM
Hello! What a great welcome for my first witterings in Frost Land. Thanks a lot for that.

I've looked at the AE22s (very nice) and I do quite a bit of late night work on DT100s (they're good, but they can fool you as much as any other) but mostly I've been reading up after MarkOne's info on small monitors - it seems whilst they're far from perfect, these NS10s are what many people have already turned to, at least as a reference against something else and in the realm of small boxes they are as "flat" as anyone has come up with.

I read a very illuminating bit in SoundonSound following NS10s' 20th anniversary in '08, http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep08/a ... hans10.htm

particularly mentioning some reflex-loading experiment designed to lift the bottom end response, but at the expense of the tripling the Group Delay. Naturally I'd never heard of such a thing, but basically, "here's all the 60Hz response you want, sadly, it arrives 11ms after the rest of the band..."

At this point I gave up, routed the studio output through to all the hifis in the house via the Sonos wifi system and am currently running back and forth, cross referencing on domestic systems large and small. Works a treat!

Back to it - song 6 of 11...
#2
Gear Corner / Flat Response Studio Monitors?
August 13, 2010, 01:57:50 PM
Hello all!

What are the flattest response small monitors anyone has come across?

For instance, what are the self powered jobbies in the Cube? Genelecs of some description?

Reason for asking - I'm currently mixing my second album, with much frustration and trial and error - using Yamaha NS10ms which are lovely and harsh and flat as a pancake until you get down to 100Hz, below which they jump off a cliff!

In practice this means mixing bass and bass drum  down till you can barely hear it - just "knowing" it'll be there when you play it on the hifi or in the car! Hardly an efficient way to work hmm?

So! Who has got a flat response across the spectrum - holy grail or blindingly obvious?

All the best
bikinitest