[sdiy] Speakers - was [OT] spiral water!

[Martin Naef]

Hi Tony

Oakley Sound wrote:
>> Within the affordable (whatever that means) category: Adam P11a

> Well your idea of affordable is different to mine. :-) A grand for a 
> speaker... jeepers! Maybe I'm in the wrong job.

That must be for the pair. Turnkey lists them for 1k per speaker, but 
Thomann sells them for E650 per piece - that sounds more like it.

> I use Tannoy Mercury M1. 99UKP or even lower. These are hi-fi speakers, 
> but once you get used to their sound I think one can safely mix on these.

There's nothing fundamentally wrong with HiFi speakers. Add the cost for 
the amp and you're easily in the range of a Tannoy Reveal, a rather 
common studio monitor.

> The Behringer 2031 are getting some good news on some of the Forums I am 
> on.

I've also read quite a few bad things about the Behringer monitors from 
people with ears I trust. If you want to go one step lower in cost, 
definitely take a look at the Event series. I personally use the 
20/20bas which provides a very good price/performance ratio if you are 
looking for something that goes a bit lower than most of the competition 
in the same price bracket.

> I think the key is to know what your system/room sounds like. Use plenty 

Absolutely. But if the speakers mask some frequency regions, there's 
very little you can do to compensate - you can't fix what you don't hear.

Does anybody around here build their own speakers, BTW?

Bye
Martin