Any pro will tell you that your mixes will never amount to anything until you can truly hear your tracks. But the price of professional monitors puts...
Over the past few years, I've heard a lot about ADAM studio monitors, but they seemed a little beyond my price range. With the A7 model, ADAM has introduced...
Denmark's Dynaudio Acoustics started out as an audiophile speaker and driver manufacturer. In recent years, the company successfully branched out into...
I wouldn't dream of mixing without listening part of the time to small, bass-challenged close-field monitors. Listening back to a mix on such a system...
In the cramped control rooms of many personal studios, setting up speakers for accurate monitoring can be a challenge. Monitors placed on shelves, near...
Event Electronics' Studio Precision 8 Active studio monitor was an EM Editors' Choice Award winner in 2005 (see the January 2005 issue of EM, available...
What's your vision of the perfect pocket-size audio recorder? Here's mine: It would be tiny and use solid-state media (a memory card) rather than rotating...
The market for active close-field monitors in the under-$700 price range has become increasingly competitive over the last year and a half, with well...
With so many high-quality and affordable studio monitors available, choosing a pair can be difficult. Although personal preference can be a guide, the...
In 2004, Genelec launched its 8000 MDE Series, a line of midprice powered monitors designed to complement the company's 7000-series subwoofers and to...
Bag End's passive M-6 monitors ($596 each) are aimed at the personal- and project-studio market. About the same size as the ubiquitous Yamaha NS-10s,...
Electronic Musician’s review of the Trident Loudspeaker Company’s LS-101 passive monitors. The speakers feature two 5-inch drivers and a 1-inch neodymium tweeter....
The SAT 5 satellite monitor is a biamped two-way speaker with a 5¼-inch woofer and ¾-inch tweeter powered by individual 60W amps. Blue Sky made the cabinet as narrow as possible while still accommodating the abbreviated woofer frame; narrow cabinets are often used to maximize a speaker's horizontal dispersion....
Auralex MoPads decouple your vibrating speakers from the furniture that they sit on so you can hear the true sound of your monitors without extraneous resonances....
Over the years, EM has done several comparison reviews of lower-end, studio reference monitors, covering both powered and unpowered models. Now that powered...
Should you trade in your unpowered monitors for powered ones? Well, the perception of sound is a rather subjective experience, so powered monitors might...
Mackie's HR624 powered studio monitors build on the success of the company's HR824 monitors, which were immediately successful due to their accurate response,...
Size matters, especially when you're short on space hence the appeal of compact close-field monitors. The problem, though, is that small monitors tend...
ADAM PROFESSIONAL AUDIO A7
DYNAUDIO ACOUSTICS BM5A
AVANT ELECTRONICS Avantone MixCubes
TANNOY Precision 6D
JBL PROFESSIONAL LSR4326P
EVENT ELECTRONICS Studio Precision 6 Active
M-AUDIO MicroTrack 24/96
