warpdriver
Headphoneus Supremus
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if you are willing to put the effort, there is no reason why you can't add a sub and do it well. I added a small sub to my desktop system and was able to get it quite flat with proper positioning, phase adjustment and careful adjustment of the crossover (around 80Hz)
You have been speaking in generalities. But as I said, I went through the excercise and found that studio monitors represented a real alternative. I suggest other people do the same. There isn't any secret sauce that makes studio monitors better, so you have to listen with your own ears and determine whether one speaker is more accurate overall. Since we have no idea what the target speaker was when somebody mixed a particular peace of music, saying that you're better off buying a consumer speaker is somewhat misleading and way too much of a generalization. I say ignore that, and judge the speaker on its sound quality. I found many great alternative in studio monitors in every price range. I have more bookshelf speakers in my house than my wife has purses, so I am pretty experienced in what can be had in the consumer speaker range under $1500
Originally Posted by gregorio /img/forum/go_quote.gif Adding a sub will help put some of the missing freqs back in and alleviate some of the weaknesses of near-fields. Although we have lessened the problems we have by no means eliminated them. We are likely to hear a well extended, though not necessarily a very accurate bass with a significant hole in the crossover freqs. |
if you are willing to put the effort, there is no reason why you can't add a sub and do it well. I added a small sub to my desktop system and was able to get it quite flat with proper positioning, phase adjustment and careful adjustment of the crossover (around 80Hz)
You have been speaking in generalities. But as I said, I went through the excercise and found that studio monitors represented a real alternative. I suggest other people do the same. There isn't any secret sauce that makes studio monitors better, so you have to listen with your own ears and determine whether one speaker is more accurate overall. Since we have no idea what the target speaker was when somebody mixed a particular peace of music, saying that you're better off buying a consumer speaker is somewhat misleading and way too much of a generalization. I say ignore that, and judge the speaker on its sound quality. I found many great alternative in studio monitors in every price range. I have more bookshelf speakers in my house than my wife has purses, so I am pretty experienced in what can be had in the consumer speaker range under $1500