May 13, 2010, 02:09 AM
Agua Wrote:Look closer at the picture...you'll notice a small pair of shitty computer speakers, and there's a shitty sub woofer along with those, decoupled from the desk, sitting behind the monitor. Between the nice speakers, the shitty speakers, nice headphones, ear buds, shitty headphones, my car stereo, and an old beat up boom box, I can dial in a mix pretty well. The outboard EQ is not activated during mixing (more for pleasure listening), and other than a push in 225-300 Hz range in the AR3's, the mix translates pretty well to other systems.
The monitors I really want are between $7,000-$15,000 per monitor, and yes, they are worth every penny. I've never heard speakers like these before, and you can be sure that your mixes will translate to just about any playback system.
http://www.pmc-speakers.com/productCats.php
You could replace half of that stuff with a pair of M-audio studiophiles and it would fix your 225-300hz range for 150$
Then again I have always been partial to headphones for sampling accuracy anyway. I really need to upgrade my setup, the only sound my computer has is a pair of stupid headphones... and they are ZALMAN BRAND and 5.1 channel.
/sarcasm