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Alesis Monitor One MkII

Passive Monitor from Alesis belonging to the Monitor One series

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Published on 01/16/08 at 04:56
Value For Money : Excellent
Well before buying anything should first know why you want to buy it and how we will use it. Then we look for the same price range to our stock market without bad puns.
Not the monitoring speakers within the meaning of the word. Let's not talk nonsense and do the pros with these two black boxes, but certainly not pretty pro.
The technical characteristics have no incentive to be disclosed here, if we were to just watch the label to buy, notices would serve no purpose.
In short, I use these speakers with a 400W amp Technic with lots of connections to plug stuff. As my preamp Vox Tone Lab, my BDC3000 the Toneport and laptop for my girlfriend.
In fact they are hi-fi speakers, and more precise, clear and aesthetically more pleasing than these ignoble wooden facades home grandmother that one can find the radius of the Hi-Fi stores.
These speakers will be used to make the walls of your hi-fi or 2.1 system on your computer in the trash. And for 149 euros, it's worth every penny.

SOUNDS

Its level, that's exactly what they are asked to do a pretty faithful rendition, clear and precise. You close your eyes, we place ourselves in the middle, and the hypnosis session can begin. Each piece is a personal concert.
The stereo is really well distributed, the left means the sound of left and right sounds right. Not the stereo image is frankly baffling to the price of these speakers.

on the other hand ATTENTION !!!!!!!
Music creation mode!
I read in another opinion that the DO "resonance". And it is unfortunately true. I tried it with guitar (strat 70reissue), low (JB) and keyboard (a yamaha all rotted) and it seems to vibrate, a kind of vibration that saturates the vibration but without saturating. It's very special, it's like a volume boost with a tremolo, reverb in the 100Hz on the DO. And it's very disruptive to the speakers so-called "monitoring".
This may be due to certain physical laws that bind size of 6.5, volume of the chamber, air pressure and frequency of the note. But I'm not a physicist, I am a musician (or so).
The only positive is that if you do not recognize notes by ear, this device can help. But I do not think this is what is asked!

To be clear, the sound is clear. A little too sharp to be completely neutral. But as we said, since this is not the best of the best and if one day you really want to do something serious it will invest more, it is enough.

OVERALL OPINION

The more I hear what they tell me the happier I am to have purchased. If you know what you want, beauty and well away with a sound spectrum fairly well respected, these speakers are ideal. The price is reasonable, it is a good value for money.
As against the weak point is the DO. I do not create these speakers. I have a headphone is not the most accurate and better. I worked in a recording studio for television advertising (no glory I know) and to quickly there is no perfect home studio. I heard the Dynaudio BM12A of my friend in the ingéson, I cried a little and then I went home, there's no photo. If you want good sound in your house, buy a good headphone. The headset is fine, it can hurt the ears after 10h of continuous use but you're on your bubble of being in music.

In short if you want to hear the little noises of slamming saliva in the mouth of your musical background singers on a precise and clear, these speakers are perfect.
on the other hand, if you considering creating your titles characters in your little house and you like the C major, you may be disappointed.

I would definitely do it again this election, the sound quality does not exist anywhere in the same price range.
And the speakers Hi-fi neutral and accurate, black and disguised as monitoring speakers, there are not many I think ...

If this is what you want do not hesitate a second longer.