To ensure your recordings are the best possible, you need highly accurate reference monitors—or do you? Some producers swear by speakers with well-known faults, while others use only the most pristine monitors. We resolve the conflicting viewpoints, discuss the vagaries of studio-monitor design, explain the most common specifications, and walk you through the process of choosing close-field monitors....
Hafler M5 Hafler's stunning TRM8 powered monitor was an Editors' Choice award winner in 1998; this past year, Hafler found the sweet spot again with the...
JBL monitors sport a new look and a new sound. Just about everyone in the music industry has heard of JBL. The company has a long and distinguished history...
Can you trust what you hear on small active monitors? It has been only a few years since affordable powered monitors hit the market in force. Now we're...
NHTPRO A-20($2,000)The NHTPro A-10 powered monitors garnered high marks from our veteran monitor reviewer, which made them contenders for our pick of...
NHT, well known for its audiophile home speakers, has expanded into the pro-audio market as NHTPro with a line of active reference monitors. Formed in...
Ironman composer Ramin Djawadi talks film-and-TV scoring. Go
What's New: Native Instruments Guitar Rig 3 XE and Guitar Rig Session, Rob Papen's Predator synth, and Haunted House Records's Electronic Critters, a sampling CD of circuit-bent toys.Go
