hmm i’ve heard a few people say that .. I’m going to be using them for producing drum and bass so i do need the low freq’s but i don’t want them to be coloured as my bass will be weak played through other systems if i’m mixing a track on speakers with a little too much bass, alltho I don’t wanna go the otehr way either and have too much bass if my speakes don’t have enough and i have to crank the low freq’s up too much to hear them on the monitors.

Oh and for 1984 they are studio monitors …

@1984 389698 wrote:

well that makes sense, I did suspect this was the case, what’s the difference between them and ordinary speakers?

Studio monitors aim at having a flat responce .. IE. no freqencys are reproduced louder or quiter than any others the whole way down the freqency range, so as to hear exactly what the music you are making sounds like.

Unlike hifi speakers what are noramly “coloured”.That means ,for example, the bass is tweaked to sound warmer/louder/punchier to be pleasing to the ear. Rather than to be an acurate representation of the music being played through them.

Studio monitors should show you what the music sounds like on the recording it’s self rather than how your hifi speakers would make that peticuler track sound. So when, after making a track, you play it back on noramal speakers you havn’t compensated for the altered responce of hifi speakers, resulting in lack of bass in the example i gave (bass tweaked to be louder) as you’ll make a tune so it sounds good on bassy speakers but it wount translate to other speakers well as you wouldn’t of put as much bass into your recording to compensate for the bass of the speakers. Resulting in not enough bass in the recording.

@Tek Offensive 389935 wrote:

also isnt the idea of a montor that you dont ahve to eq or compensate at all,

yeah i understand this .. the only thing is I need the freq responce to go lower than 49Hz +/- 1.5 db like in the RP6’s as alot of the sub in my d+B will be hitting 40Hz or even less… RP8’s go down to 45 Hz +/-1.5 db and that’s the best i have seen for speakers of this price (I don’t want to spend more). I can’t see any other way of getting the low range i need other than the RP8’s with a little too much bass responce.

A sub is out of the question atm a. because of cash and b. because my room will not be able to handle one with out vibrating every thing in there making it sound more like a tractor engin rather than crisp sub bass and i can’t afford bass traps either and c. because they are a fucking pain to get in synk with the monitors properly as far as i can work out.

the next best pair (lowest freq) i’ve seen are the yamaha HS80M’s that go down to 42Hz +/- 10 db. I don’t think they will hit the lows as well as the RP8’s as you’re possably loosing 8.5 db’s at 45 Hz (assuming I’ve worked it out correctly and understand how freq responce is guaged)

Idealy I want more expensive monitors that go right down to the 30-40 Hz range …. but i just can’t afford them atm and need to get a pair of monitors within two weeks as I’m doing an exhibition in earls court and need them for that as well.

@joshd96320 389970 wrote:

if your going to eq, make sure u dont cross xmax or they go boom
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i was just gonna EQ down on the lower freq’s from my pc … or is this not advisable due to quality or something?

I’ve ordered a pair and some isolator pads .. should be here in 4-5 working days :weee:

Will let you know how i get on with them when they arive 😛