Budget monitors

[jesus]

how much is the budget? your probably gonna need about £200-£400 for ok speakers, closer to a grand for decent ones - if your serious about producing that is.

If you get yourself active monitors then they already have amps built in em, which means you can still use your amp you have at the moment for your dj speakers. IT's gonna be cheaper this way and without the hastle of matching speakers and amps..

[fatcollective]

for budget monitors...i'd go for Fortex PM1's or Alesis M1's...can probabaly pick these up for about £170 - £220 a pair.

[theledge]

Alesis M1 Actives get my vote too

Just over £200/pair. no amp required either

[BloodStar]

Alesis M1 Actives get my vote too

Just over £200/pair. no amp required either

these are the passive ones.

[dirty_bass]

I`d look on ebay for some fostex pm-1`s
the Tannoy speakers performed very well in recent music publications.
Also you can get Absolute 2`s on ebay occasionally for around 150.

If you are using passives I`d thoroughly recommend The Alesis RA series of amps.

The sound on these babies is simply stunning.
Better than the amps found on some active monitors in my opinion, and also very nice to look at.

[robin m]

I`d look on ebay for some fostex pm-1`s
the Tannoy speakers performed very well in recent music publications.
Also you can get Absolute 2`s on ebay occasionally for around 150.

If you are using passives I`d thoroughly recommend The Alesis RA series of amps.

The sound on these babies is simply stunning.
Better than the amps found on some active monitors in my opinion, and also very nice to look at.

Thanks for advice, much appreciated... I'm going to shop around and see what I like - you've given me some good starting points.

I think I'm going to have to go for active speakers though as like I said my current amp is basically a piece of crap, and my budget is too limited to buy a decent one as well as the speakers... just like everyone else I've got a long long list of things I wanna spend my limited cash on (new turntables, fix my mixer, laptop, second PC monitor, umpteen bits of hardware, trip to peru etc etc etc).

[dan the acid man]

fostex pm-1's all the way, got some at work and they're really good for the money, much better than alesis imo.

[robin m]

Ta everyone, very helpful - the active Alesis ones sound like they're just what I'm looking for really... my kind of price, no need for a new amp and positive reviews from you lot - job done!

I'll check out the tapco s8 as well - looks like it might be slightly out of reach price-wise for me at the moment though... :whoops:

[theledge]

these are the passive ones.

Didn't notice that

[hoodlum]

these are the passive ones.

alesis m1 get my vote too, i got mine new for £98 at turnkey!

[loopdon]

i would have a look at tapco s8 monitors. got very nice reviews and i am very happy with them.