my advice would be to invest 2000 in room treatment, it makes no sense to have the best converters and monitors if your room has problems (exception being you know your room insideout and know really well how mixes in your room translates in the outer world) and the rest in equipment, but after you ...

when i was playing live i use to have a MD UW among a monoachine and a laptop. a nice tool to play live, expecially if you venture into writing patterns in realtime.

is zaor a reasonably new brand ? I mean, untill about half a year ago, I had never even heard of them. they make some beautiful stuff, don't they ? i guess they are relatively new in the business. I got my stands 5 years ago, and at the time they were only making 2 products, the speaker stands and ...

if stands really decouple the speakers from the floor yes, if not you'll have even more problems they'kk suck you energy from the speakers, making lowend thinner and less defined. beware of hollow metal pipes, of which most cheap stands are made of, they'll resonate and in worst case they'll vibrat...

if stands really decouple the speakers from the floor yes, if not you'll have even more problems they'kk suck you energy from the speakers, making lowend thinner and less defined. beware of hollow metal pipes, of which most cheap stands are made of, they'll resonate and in worst case they'll vibrate...

hNRk wrote:what do you consider a small room?

mine is probaly 5*5 m...

mine is 16.5 square meters, the previous one was almost 25 square meters.

In contrast to what phase ghost said, I'd avoid 8" woofers if you are in a small room, when the low end is overwhelming, you can't hear sh!t else. Monitors are really only as good as the room you put them in, maybe treat your room and/or give some thought into what monitors would sensibly work...

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