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I'm considering going to active monitors at some point and have been doing some research. There seems to be a couple monitors that are highly recommended here (Behringer 2031A as an example), however when I check the specs they all fall into the relative same range of frequency response. It doesn't make sense to me to go out and buy expensive monitors that only reach down to around 50hz and then ask the sub or subs to fill in the gap. The recommended monitors here may sound great but I'd venture to guess there's something in the sound spectrum that is being sorely missed, and I'd much rather go with a monitor that not only sounds great, but also has the capability like these do to get down into lower frequencies. I've also come to the conclusion that monitors with no smaller than 8" drivers is the way to go, and the above Behringers do have that, but still offer the less than impressive lows. I'm implementing this theory now with my current set up going with larger speakers combined with 2 subs and it works well. In the past I've tried the 50hz bookshelf speaker / sub combo idea and it sounds good, but doesn't work too well far as I'm concerned once you've heard speakers that can reach into the mid 30's hz range combined with a sub. To me it's not even a contest.
Check out the specs and reviews of this one. I'd be interested to hear from anyone that my already be using these and what they think.
Marc
I'm considering going to active monitors at some point and have been doing some research. There seems to be a couple monitors that are highly recommended here (Behringer 2031A as an example), however when I check the specs they all fall into the relative same range of frequency response. It doesn't make sense to me to go out and buy expensive monitors that only reach down to around 50hz and then ask the sub or subs to fill in the gap. The recommended monitors here may sound great but I'd venture to guess there's something in the sound spectrum that is being sorely missed, and I'd much rather go with a monitor that not only sounds great, but also has the capability like these do to get down into lower frequencies. I've also come to the conclusion that monitors with no smaller than 8" drivers is the way to go, and the above Behringers do have that, but still offer the less than impressive lows. I'm implementing this theory now with my current set up going with larger speakers combined with 2 subs and it works well. In the past I've tried the 50hz bookshelf speaker / sub combo idea and it sounds good, but doesn't work too well far as I'm concerned once you've heard speakers that can reach into the mid 30's hz range combined with a sub. To me it's not even a contest.
Check out the specs and reviews of this one. I'd be interested to hear from anyone that my already be using these and what they think.
Marc