Advice on home speakers

I have some b&w Nautilus speakers hooked up to Cyrus system. Works well for me but it is alot of money to spend.

i have a 3500watt mackie pa system so there

great, give all your music instant shitness

I have some b&w Nautilus speakers hooked up to Cyrus system. Works well for me but it is alot of money to spend.

that is some hiphopslavespeaker shit!

No No No. Consumer hifi sucks ass. Think about it. The guys that master your favorite tunes use studio monitors to mix down the tracks prior to sending off to be pressed. what they hear is what you hear.

I have a pair of active Mackie hr824's right here in my studio/ hit me up to listen to that shit !!!!!

Active studio monitors all the way.

fair enough, but monitors are designed to expose any flaws in a mix, they don't flatter the music like hi-fi and many nearfields won't give you a heavy bass that so many people like to hear.

for listening to music, decent hi-fi is less fatiguing on the ear and will usually give the better sound in a household environment.

mastering house have many thousands of £££ worth of acoustic treatment, before they even switch on the montoring, and the cost of speakers for mastering runs way beyond that of the home hi-fi set up by a very long way.

what they hear is what you hear isn't correct unless you also have a mastering studio.

their job is to make mixes work on your (and every otherperson's) hi-fi.

Build - the sound quality from monitors are bloody great...but listening through a good set of separates NAD cd/amp/record player & A&E speakers set up just gels all that shit together.

Fu@£ man playing strider through that shit must be bloody good.

Just remembered that I might have a really old NAD amp and tuner lying around at the parents' house which (if I can find it) you can have gratis. It's the first one they mass produced (I think) and it a bit of a classic (NAD 3020).

You'd need to buy some speakers - you can get some very acceptable ones for £100-ish (Wharfedale Diamond 9.0s would be fine) - plus a few quid for cabling and interconnects.

hassan, there is a second hand shop near me that had a rotel amp recently for about £40, might still be there

aha! i'll have to come check it out. with you or alex, or someone who knows something.

thanks for the help guys!

check out the small quad speakers rated best buy in what hi fi small compact great sound and cheapish at 300 ish squid great bass i got them in my kitchen and i haven't been disappointed

aha! i'll have to come check it out. with you or alex, or someone who knows something.

sure, no probs

fair enough, but monitors are designed to expose any flaws in a mix, they don't flatter the music like hi-fi and many nearfields won't give you a heavy bass that so many people like to hear.

for listening to music, decent hi-fi is less fatiguing on the ear and will usually give the better sound in a household environment.

mastering house have many thousands of £££ worth of acoustic treatment, before they even switch on the montoring, and the cost of speakers for mastering runs way beyond that of the home hi-fi set up by a very long way.

what they hear is what you hear isn't correct unless you also have a mastering studio.

their job is to make mixes work on your (and every otherperson's) hi-fi.

friend of mine has got a simpson valve amp an some [FONT=Verdana]B&W DM2As ££££££££'s[/FONT]

hassanr what have you started!?

I would recommend you go and buy the cheap jbl little monitors (1c?) that you can get at Richer. They're fine, about £70. They're rock solid and unbreakable and they sound like somethings coming out of them. Don't listen to all these slaves^^^^

check mission on ebay and look in second hand shops i picked up a nad from a second hand shop for £20.00 and later sold it for £200

friend of mine has got a simpson valve amp an some B&W DM2As ££££££££'s

But are they NJS?

train ticket to romford could get you these. if you can trust essex
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Celestion-15-Speakers_W0QQitemZ140233627164QQihZ004QQcategoryZ14993QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Actually yeah +1 to missions, they're good and not massively expensive.

i've been recommended Wharfedale diamond 9.0's, to go with a (old) NAD 3020 amp that tom.'s got. sounds like a plan to me.

hassanr what have you started!?

I would recommend you go and buy the cheap jbl little monitors (1c?) that you can get at Richer. They're fine, about £70. They're rock solid and unbreakable and they sound like somethings coming out of them. Don't listen to all these slaves^^^^

yeah, the JBL control 1's or something? they're like £50, and looked pretty good... if tom can't find his amp, i think i'm gonna go with those JBL speakers and a cambridge audio a1 amp.

The best speakers I ever heard were a pair of old gold Tannoy speakers at my friends flat, they looked like these :

Heco

not heard heco

my friends hi-fi is better than your friends hifi

my friends hi-fi is better than your friends hifi

are you talking to me?

" No No No. Consumer hifi sucks ass. Think about it. The guys that master your favorite tunes use studio monitors to mix down the tracks prior to sending off to be pressed. what they hear is what you hear."

i think Bryston, PMC, ATC, Dynaudio, Nagra, harbeth and various other 'hi-fi' companies that have been making respected 'studio' products for years would have something to say about that.
often the only difference between the products is a black ash veneer for the 'studio' and real wood for the home friendly 'hi-fi'.

are you talking to me?

no.