Good speakers with FCP System

[Cleditor]

i’m not sure how much you want to spend, but i just got the m-audio bx5a speakers for $299 and they’re working out great. you will need to by a separate cable to run them from your computer’s mini audio jack to their larger 1/4″ input.
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[Ron Lindeboom]

The Tannoy nearfield monitors work very well as they are mixing monitors and tend to actually reflect the sound that is truly there. Many speakers trim, fatten and otherwise modify the sound based on the “style” of the speaker. Good studio monitors do not do this and are designed to represent the sound accurately. While there are speakers that are better than the Tannoys and have the hefty price tags to match, the Tannoys are trustworthy and they are priced within reason.

https://www1.shopping.com/xPC-Tannoy_Tannoy_Reveal5A_Active_Studio_Monitor

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom
creativecow.net

Why do people say: “Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too!” Duh. What good is cake if you can’t eat it?

[Phillip Van west]

If you’re going to consider Tannoy’s (which are very good) you owe it to yourself to check out Dynaudio Acoustics (I have a pair of their BM5A’s that constantly amaze me that I got for about $400 each) and Genelec’s, as well. Among those 3 brands, you really can’t go wrong.

Hope that helps.

pvw

Phil Van West
Terra Nova Productions LLC
Denver, CO
Video Production/Post-Production

G5 DP 2.5GHz / 4.5 GB RAM / 2x250GB SATA / OS 10.4.7 / FCP 5.1.1 / QT 7.1.2

[Kevin Monahan]

Since he want to hook up his new speakers to the Mackie 1202, he’ll need to feed the speakers with “Control Room Out”, not via mini jack into the Mac. That way, he can monitor the full 48 kHz audio. The Mac’s audio out downsamples to 44.1 kHz, which can result in anomalies.

Kevin Monahan
Take My FCP Master’s Workshop!
fcpworld.com
Pres. SF Cutters

[Chris Poisson]

KRK Rockit5’s are about $300 a pair and just rock.

[Neil Ryan]

Have you considered monitoring with a pair of Apple iPod earphones?
For anyone under the age of about 30, this is probably how they’ll be listening to our material …

Sorry, couldn’t help myself. . .

[John Calhoun]

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[Pasi Koivisto]

I recently bought a pair of Yamaha HS 80M which are turning out to be really good. I don’t do a lot of sound finishing though, most of the projects I work on are sent to a audio studio. But the speakers are great, I have started to realize why audio people hate mp3. 🙂

[Mark Maness]

I would suggest something on the “pro” range of things. We are using the Mackie’s Tapco monitors. At B&H, they run for about $500. BUT they are awesome!

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com

[Dan Brockett]

Hi all:

I will throw my hat into the ring and will offer some opinions on studio monitors, as opposed to speakers:

1. KRKs, while they sound decent are not accurate at all. Fine for editing, terrible for final mixes, they artificially boost bass and treble.

2. Ditto for any Yamahas or IMHO, any Japanese speakers or monitors. While many sound good, they are not accurate.

3. The Mackies are okay, not the best for the money IMHO but pretty good.

4. The M-Audios are the new Fostex. Remember those really nasty sounding POS tiny Fostex speakers that every AVID bay had in the 90’s? The M-Audios are the new version of those. They are ubiquitous in LA and NY, seems like almost every AVID and FCP system has them. I will say that they sound better than the Fostex but we have eight off-line rooms at the production company I work at and they all have the M-Audios. Once again, not even in the realm of accurate.

5. Phil is on the right track, I second his recommendation of the Dynaudio Acoustics, they are accurate and well made.

6. I’ll also give Ron the Tannoys, as long as you get the right ones. Their cheapo speakers sound pretty bad but their better pro stuff is good.

Okay, now that I have rendered all of my huffy opinions on the monitors/speakers listed here, please, please, please spend at least $1,000.00 per pair for your monitors. Buy active monitors (self-powered), they surpassed passive monitors years ago in quality because of the individually engineered dedicated power supplies are superior and more efficient than outboard amplifiers.

My recommendations, besides the Tannoys and the Dynaudio Acoustics will be the Genelec 8020As (I have had the older versions of these for many years, the 1029As and 1029Bs and they are an incredibly accurate monitor for the money, especially when paired with the matching Genelec subwoofer). If you can afford it, get the matching subwoofer, I think it’s the 7050.

OR

The new Adam A7s are superbly accurate and are also about $1,000.00 per pair. They utilize and entirely new high frequency driver design that is unlike anything else I have ever seen.

FWIW, I sold and managed a professional and a consumer audio business for 10 years. I have owned 85 pairs of speakers and monitors over the years and consider myself fairly attuned to the nuances and finer points of speakers and monitors. For home speakers, I prefer B&W, Kef and M&K but I do not think that any of them are accurate studio monitors even though they all sound great, they all color the sound as well, they are not accurate. Accurate monitors present the sound as it really is, if it sounds bad, the monitor will sound bad. If it sounds great, the monitor will sound great. Most speakers try to make everything sound great.

All the best,

Dan

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