haha,

Alright seems we got a lot of people speaking about speakers. Figured this would be a good time to get everyone's recommended models on the following:

1) Studio Grade Speakers ($150-500 used/new ) - Good enough for times when Avid mixing is necessary due to budget constraints, have XLR inputs (i.e. Mixing internet content and low budget DVD content).

2) Monitor Speakers ($20-150 used/new ) - Good enough for monitoring audio, no mixing necessary

3) Anything outside of these cateogories

 

BTW:

I've tried and liked the following.

1) Yamaha MSP10M really great sound, may be discontinued now. MSRP: $749 for each

http://www.solarisnetwork.com/product_page_Yamaha__MSP10M

2) Roland MA-12C speakers, decent offline non-mix speakers. MSRP: $290

http://www.accessgrid.org/node/99

 

 The JBL 4400 series studio control monitors.

I always used the Genelec 8040's. I like the overall balance of them for dialog, etc. But the other day I worked on a system that had an inexspensive pair of Samson Resov 50a, and I couldn't believe how good they sounded. They have a new model out now called the Resolv 65a and they're something like $200 a pair. Very decent sounding little monitors.

 genelec 1030A  for me

Maybe we should specify price and purpose for what you use the audio speakers for. That way people know what calliber we're talking.

Most importantly: Are they good enough for mixing a low budget project on?

 

I'm getting ready to purchase and want speakers that will let me hear what you hear in a theater minus the surround sound.  I want to be able to take a rough cut of a film from my Avid to a theater and not have all that much difference...so the director and I know what is going on.

Event Studio Precision 8's are what I'm looking at.  Pricey, but the info I've read makes them sound sweet.

jasperfdo:

makes them sound sweet.

Sound sweet or sound accurate???

 

Accurate...the only thing in my film life that probably isn't accurate are my hi hopes of taking natalie portman on a date.

An interesting part of making it sound the same for me is the volume you should theoretically mix at.  Here setting the volume to a Theatre mix level (as measured by recieved pressure at the mixing position) everything sounds incredibly loud.

(My description is heavily abbreviated, and probably open to many interpretations, from a very complex setup document we followed a couple of years back.

How do you accurately measure levels like that?  All I know to do (this is ghetto I know) is stick a movie in my DVD player, monitor that sound level and then try and match from Avid.

http://www.markertek.com/SearchProdList.asp?off=0&sort=prod&skuonly=0&search=sound+level+meter&pagesize=0