Studio speakers

Are there a brand of studio speakers that sound as good as earphones?

I have my VA76 through a Bose home stereo system and it sounds terrible. Through the phones, it's incredible.

zuki

I've had a pair of Alesis Monitor One speakers for over ten years and they are great. I'm sure you can demo them at any good music store that carries Alesis equipment.

Zuki,

There is no sound system that comes close to a high-quality heaphone set--none! Sound systems rely on accustics within a given area, and accustics generated from the speaker enclosures themselves. With headphones, this is not the case, there is no outside interference, and the sound is a pure as you can get.

If you must have a studio speaker system, one that is driven by your recording equipment, it's tough to beat the Logitech Z-5500. Lots of great features, low price. Another system that has worked for many of the forum members over the years is the Yamaha YST-MS50 system, which is what I have in my office. Does a great job, and relatively inexpensive.

Good Luck,

Gary

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Travlin' Easy

You want something that sounds as good as high quality headphones? Get high quality monitors....

My Mackie HR824's sound incredible, and go so low (flat down to 42Hz and plenty below that) I don't need a sub, which tend to get overused in most 2.1 and 5.1 systems, anyway.

Probably some slightly cheaper that approach it, but there's a distinct reason they cost a lot more than Logitechs....

www.mackie.com

I bought a pair of Tapco S8 monitors - made by Mackie - for my T2 and they sound great. Not as good as headphones as other folks have pointed out but they produce a very clean sound and can get pretty loud. I use them in a room that is about 15x20 (feet). The Tapco line of products are a bit cheaper than the Mackie brand. There is also a powered sub available but I don't have it yet.

Bill

The monitors that take the guesswork out of setting up a home studio are the JBL LSR4326P studio monitors . I own a set and they are pretty amazing. They come with a microphone and software which analyzes your room acoustics and adjusts the speaker EQ accordingly. Not cheap but they seem very accurate and I know of nothing else like them.

Thanks guys. By the replies, sounds like I have to fork out some big bucks.

zuki

I used to use Roland DS-5, but I sold them when I got a set of Logitech Z-2300 from work. And man the sound is excellent! The rolands were great, but a bit bland and undefined. Yes I know it's supposed to be that way, but when you think about it, the product will be played on lesser systems, with bad sound. And the Logitechs provide a better reference to what the product may sound like on the sound system of the client. But as Gary said, you can't beat a good headphone!

Doc-Z

Note that the original poster didn't even say whether they were good headphones, just headphones in general. Some of the less expensive ones can be anything but flat....

Be careful mixing and creating on headphones.... their exaggeratedly wide sound field can sometimes make you mix (or edit your styles) in a less than accurate way....

Diki
You're correct! I didn't mention the phones quality. They are a $100 pair of Sony Pro model - very nice IMO.

No highs, no lows......must be Bose! That's what I'm experiencing from my satellite system, most definitely not for keyboards - yuk.

zuki