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kolaz « The right choice! »
Published on 11/24/10 at 05:33What characteristics have motivated your choice?
value for money, the small size and good experience with Yamaha.
For what purpose?
home studio, mixing on Reason.
What amp / What configuration?
Connected to an imac with 21.5 a direct box and wiring XLR Art DTI planet waves custom, listen closely in a small room.
SOUNDS
The frequency curve is very neutral if the use of the integrated equalizer is well settled, however, listen real close, the highs are a bit too present even with mitigation, but on-2db nothing really nasty.
The sound is super clear and very analytical (this is their property), and contrary to what has been said they have enough bass and they go down even quite low compared to what we can expect such monitors. At home the room correction is a -4dB and the bass is absolutely perfect and without any distortion even pushing the sound. The stereo image is accurate, and on some recordings there was the impression that some instruments are positioned on the outside of the speakers.
OVERALL OPINION
I use them every day for a month now, I have not tried many other models but I listened to the active mkII Alesis and one thing is sure, the Yamahas are more neutral, accurate, compact and cheaper. What I like most is that the bass is ultra clean while being powerful enough when necessary, they are amazing for their size!
What I like is a little less than they have a slight hiss even without any signal, however, it is no longer heard when we send the sound.
With the experience I would repeat my choice without any problem, we can't go wrong, however remember to take a very good connection and preferably a good balanced or DI external adapter with XLR outputs for connecting to a computer because otherwise we get all parasites (noise screen scrolling and hard drive noise). I use them with Art DTI is a WAD with isolation transformer and since then I have no parasitic noise!
value for money, the small size and good experience with Yamaha.
For what purpose?
home studio, mixing on Reason.
What amp / What configuration?
Connected to an imac with 21.5 a direct box and wiring XLR Art DTI planet waves custom, listen closely in a small room.
SOUNDS
The frequency curve is very neutral if the use of the integrated equalizer is well settled, however, listen real close, the highs are a bit too present even with mitigation, but on-2db nothing really nasty.
The sound is super clear and very analytical (this is their property), and contrary to what has been said they have enough bass and they go down even quite low compared to what we can expect such monitors. At home the room correction is a -4dB and the bass is absolutely perfect and without any distortion even pushing the sound. The stereo image is accurate, and on some recordings there was the impression that some instruments are positioned on the outside of the speakers.
OVERALL OPINION
I use them every day for a month now, I have not tried many other models but I listened to the active mkII Alesis and one thing is sure, the Yamahas are more neutral, accurate, compact and cheaper. What I like most is that the bass is ultra clean while being powerful enough when necessary, they are amazing for their size!
What I like is a little less than they have a slight hiss even without any signal, however, it is no longer heard when we send the sound.
With the experience I would repeat my choice without any problem, we can't go wrong, however remember to take a very good connection and preferably a good balanced or DI external adapter with XLR outputs for connecting to a computer because otherwise we get all parasites (noise screen scrolling and hard drive noise). I use them with Art DTI is a WAD with isolation transformer and since then I have no parasitic noise!