Budget monitors

[neilried]

I got alesis mk2 actives because they sounded nice and bassy.

They hurt your ears, the bass obscures your mix and I ended up hating them.

Nice speakers, good dj monitors perhaps but not the best for production IMO, sure there are better bets out there that are more accurate and less fatiguing on your poor ole lugs.

I did a simerlar thing actually, I heard these in a good environment and rushed out to buy some, then stuck em in my room and fired them up and getting ridiculous ammounts of bass from them.

Spent ages playing about with set up and trying to get used to them but its near impossible, so in a moment of frustration I swapped them with some fuct up old mission speakers I had in my kitchen...

Ive now got sh!t loads of bass in the kitchen

And my mix downs are a lot better

And Im not getting daily headaches

I just wish Id have listened to the advice I got on here and saved up a bit more cash for something better from the outset...

[Barely Human]

I did a simerlar thing actually, I heard these in a good environment and rushed out to buy some, then stuck em in my room and fired them up and getting ridiculous ammounts of bass from them.

Spent ages playing about with set up and trying to get used to them but its near impossible, so in a moment of frustration I swapped them with some fuct up old mission speakers I had in my kitchen...

Ive now got sh!t loads of bass in the kitchen

And my mix downs are a lot better

And Im not getting daily headaches

I just wish Id have listened to the advice I got on here and saved up a bit more cash for something better from the outset...

Sometimes you can cure some of this problem with a well placed sock in one of the front ports. It does seam a major problem with the Mk2 Active's tho. Has anyone had any experience with the new Alesis??

[FILTERZ]

a word on Mackies


the 824`s are far superior to the 624`s

i have the 624`s which are great but a little fatigueing on my ears after a while.

[neilried]

Sometimes you can cure some of this problem with a well placed sock in one of the front ports. It does seam a major problem with the Mk2 Active's tho. Has anyone had any experience with the new Alesis??

I'm all socked up... but maybe in the wrong port as it didnt make much difference, does it matter which port? Are there seperate chambers inside the box?

[Jay Pace]

I'm all socked up... but maybe in the wrong port as it didnt make much difference, does it matter which port? Are there seperate chambers inside the box?

I dont think it matters which to plug. Would personally recommend plugging both ports in each box to get a tighter bass.

[loopdon]

these adams look nice. i reckon they are, too.

[robin m]

Well I went with the tapco S8s in the end, am very very pleased with them so far.

It came down to a toss-up between them and the fostex, I didn't find anything seriously bad said about either of them... there are definitely a lot of people out there who aren't keen on the alesis M1s though on the other hand :whoops:

Anything was going to be better than what I had beforehand anyway, get in :cheese:

[dan the acid man]

coo, what's the frequency responce on them ?