On Friday 07 September 2007 03:37:51 Johannes Mario Ringheim wrote: > Leslie P. Polzer wrote: > > I would like to do the following: > > > > * listen to music all over the room (so this probably disqualifies a > > 5.1 setup?) > > > > * do semi-professional audio (voice recordings, singing, guitar, synth > > with MIDI keyboard) > > > > * watch a movie every now and then. That's not really important, > > though. > > > > Is that enough for you to hand me some advice on what to get? > > You're not specifying the price range. However, I'm very happy with my > KRK Rokit 6 active speakers, and I've heard that many others are happy > with them too. They're about £450 in Norway. > > If you double that amount, you could go for the more expensive line of > KRKs, you could take a look at the KRK V6. Other than that I've heard > good things about DynAudio active speakers. If you really wanna blow > your wallet you could consider the PMC Transmissionline speakers. They > also come with or without built-in (pluggable) power amps, so you can > deceide if they should be active or not. > > To me I prefer active speakers because: > > - They're more "heavy duty" than typical HiFi, and designed to > withstand more harm than HiFi. At least it's supposed to be like that. > - You get two seperate power amps. Don't tell me that one integrated > stereo power amp is better. Highend HiFi amps often are built as two > seperate amps, even with seperate trafos. This is a good design wich you > get (much cheaper) with active speakers. > - They usually have balanced inputs. Phono cables are crap. Period. > - It's more practical in use with a computer than a HiFi is. > - You can buy more speakers if you wish to make a 5.1, 6.1, 7.1 or > even 10.2 setup. > > Linkz: First a good dealer that knows the business, is one you can trust and has it all. http://www.sweetwater.com/shop/studio/studio-monitors/ http://www.sweetwater.com/c405--Active_Monitors check out the Samson's, several nearfield speaker sizes and choices of { silk / titanium / ribbon } tweeters. and engineered woofer. Ribbons seem to be the cutting edge. Google "Jay Rose" a audio engineers engineer. A firewire audio breakout box to handle the bandwidth. Proper cabling. Tom _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
