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Hi Maria,
i think you received a lot of valuable information, especially from Pawel.
Adding one important aspect everyone "nowadays" should consider when
investing in active monitors for uses in listening tests: Make sure they are "ready to go" afte turning power on! My personal experience form both Adam F5 and KRK Rokit5 is that both need a few seconds to "awake" from standby and work only once
a certain threshold is exceeded (respective of 45dBSPL or so!!) otherwise there is no sound. The KRK´s even turn off during listening to quiet music unless i turn them up (and down again) every 20 mins or so, which is not only unconvenient but can be really
problematic for uses during (calibrated) listening tests especially at low levels. I feel that this is a relatively new albeit unnecessary feature for whatever reason (saving energy?) manufacturers hopefully will remove in future products.
Stefan
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Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. März 2017 14:40 Betreff: Re: loudspeaker recommendations Hi Maria,
I would look into professional and semi-professional studio "monitors", i.e, small-ish powered loudspeakers designed for very faithful reproduction from small distances. Usually the recommended listening distance is about 1 m, but I am pretty sure that
smaller models should work very well at smaller distances too ("well" in terms of perceptual "fusion" of the tweeter and woofer sound). Most models are two-way, but as I said, they should work fine at small listening distances. One-way (single-cone) speakers
will usually have problems with good quality over wide range of frequencies.
As for the manufacturers: someone suggested Genelec and these have very good reputation. Adam-Audio are excellent monitors, (I actually have an older model from the A series at home) in terms of faithful and transparent reproduction, possibly due to unique tweeter construction. Tannoy (British!) also makes fine monitors. Other (cheaper?) options include Yamaha, KRK. Alesis, PreSonus, JPL (professional). Behringer and M-Audio are the cheapest end and I have had some problems with M-Audio gear (though not speakers). One way to achieve high sound quality and wide frequency range while avoiding separation of woofer and tweeter sound at small listening distances is to look for concentric speakers, i.e., with tweeter placed in the center of the woofer. These are rare though, I think, except for car audio (which I would not recommend for several reasons). Tannoy used to make concentric drivers and used them in some higher-end monitors, but I am not sure if they do it anymore. Hope this helps, Pawel
On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Chait, Maria
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