Monitors

[Owen]

I would love a pair of ATCs. That is not going to happen. 

 

I am a tragic fantasist embarking on his very own vanity project. I am looking at a pair of Yamaha NS8 as my monitors. I have borrowed a pair and they are in situ. I am struggling to think of a reason not to go with them. I am running Sonor Works which can deal with the less than epic placement. Does the £500ish have anything else that I REALLY should be considering as well?

 

I am not hugely into buying 2nd hand for speakers like this, unless someone I know and trust is cutting me an extraordinary deal on a pair of ATC SCM20A boxes.

 

TIA

[Dad3353]

28 minutes ago, Owen said:

...a pair of Yamaha NS8 as my monitors...

 

Are you sure you don't mean 'HS8'..? 'NS8' existed, long ago, as mid-range HiFi, but are not at all 'bookshelf'...

 

 

 

...compared to Yamaha HS8 ...

 

Edited 15 hours ago by Dad3353

[Owen]

You are, of course, correct. 

[Owen]

Awkward!!!!

[Dad3353]

Have a look here for some choices..?

 

Best value bookshelf speakers 2025 ...

 

Hope this helps. 

[Owen]

Thanks. I am looking for active boxes. My 1982 B&W DM110i + Mission Cyrus 1 amp have been doing sterling service, but it is time for an upgrade.  

[Dad3353]

43 minutes ago, Owen said:

Thanks. I am looking for active boxes...

 

Ah, OK. Well then ...

 

Klipsch 'The Fives' ...

 

... or ...

 

M-Audio Forty-Eighty ...

[simisker]

I'd suggest taking a look/listen at the Kali IN-5 (£500 a pair) or IN-8 v2 (£600 a pair) 3-way active monitors, depending on your room size/requirements.

 

And acoustic room treatment, of course.

 

Edited 7 hours ago by simisker

[Leonard Smalls]

Or look at Adam's offerings... Had mine for a few years and they're very neutral.

This bundle is £509:

https://www.gear4music.com/Recording-and-Computers/Adam-T8V-Studio-Monitors-with-Stands-Pair/526L

[BigRedX]

The synth player in my band mixes all our recordings on a pair of KRK Rokit speakers which allow him to get some excellent sounding mixes and which to me seem reasonably small - although my last set of studio monitors were Tannoy Gold 10" dual-concentrics so my idea of sizes might be a bit skewed.

 

As I said in the recent headphones thread, the most important thing about whatever speakers you choose is that you spend a serious amount of time listening to recordings you know and like through them so you get to know their strengths and weaknesses and then can use them to make objective decisions about your own recordings.