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    Posted: 23 November 2012 at 1:28pm
Right guys,

My set are sounding a little dead now (inf act one driver has died already)

All I have at the minute are some 15w jobbies, cost me about £15 off e bay.

Could you possibly link me to some nice sounding woofers and tweeters please!

Hardly massive PA I know

driven off a Poineer a-209R if that helps


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I just built a pair of bigger than bookshelfs using Volt LS201s and Monacor DT-300s

The tweeters in particular will not break the bank and sound pretty good to me. You could do a lot worse. 4 flange mounting points is always nice too - 3 never seemed enough on large diameter flanges to really seal them. Although why tweeters do not come with an O-ring to seal the flange to a cabinet I don't know, cheap as you like and a great solution rather than mucking around with gasket tape.

But that's another story!
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If not look through the Faital Pro 3,5,6,8" driver that you can get on lean-business.co.uk/.

Or get a second hand pair of studio mons if they are just for your room.
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not exacly what you asked for but you can get a pair of mission 701 speakers from ebay for around 30 - £40 which are great speakers for the price
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Cheers guys will keep an eye out on e bay.

I am shocked at how long this pair has lasted me though. Bass on them is pretty good
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Originally posted by luton_soundman luton_soundman wrote:

not exacly what you asked for but you can get a pair of mission 701 speakers from ebay for around 30 - £40 which are great speakers for the price
Absolutely - when I was 19 I picked up a mint pair of Mission 732 for £31 & they served me very well for 5+ years until I built myself a sub & decided to replace them with something smaller. You'll have to spend many times that amount to get something new that sounds as good or better.

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Or get a second hand pair of studio mons if they are just for your room.
Studio monitors aren't nice for casual listening. They're too analytic & 'boring'.
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Depends on the monitors, that....mine sound totally lovely with everything I've tried so far. I prefer them to any "hi-fi". Flattest possible time response, that's the key.
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Originally posted by studio45 studio45 wrote:

Depends on the monitors, that....mine sound totally lovely with everything I've tried so far. I prefer them to any "hi-fi". Flattest possible time response, that's the key.
 
Agreed. Words like "low distortion", "flat response", "minimal group delay" and "well behaved dispersion" mean a lot more to me than "too analytical" or "too boring".
 
lost eden - if I put a 'hifi' sticker on a 'studio monitor' speaker, what tests could you do to determine it's got the wrong label on it?
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Originally posted by lost eden lost eden wrote:

 

Originally posted by Wrek0ne Wrek0ne wrote:

Or get a second hand pair of studio mons if they are just for your room.
Studio monitors aren't nice for casual listening. They're too analytic & 'boring'.


 
Your opinion, but for £200-300 you can get a pair of Yamaha HS80's that will be fairly flat down to 40Hz room size and positioning dependant. A set of 'Hi-Fi' speakers flat down to 40Hz (and really down to 40, not just some piece of JVC stereo claiming to be flat down to 16Hz with added subwoofer) you're talking PMC/Bang & Olusen kind of cash.

Anyway if you dont buy active speakers you'll need an amp (extra cost) and and a dsp unit (extra cost) or you have to make or buy (extra cost) a passive cross over, to build bedroom speakers will cost you as much as a second hand set on studio's. HS80 or simular are too loud in a normal sized room with precision and clarity that no ipod dock / hi-fi would be able to stand up to. 
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Originally posted by Wrek0ne Wrek0ne wrote:

Originally posted by lost eden lost eden wrote:

 

Originally posted by Wrek0ne Wrek0ne wrote:

Or get a second hand pair of studio mons if they are just for your room.
Studio monitors aren't nice for casual listening. They're too analytic & 'boring'.


 
Your opinion, but for £200-300 you can get a pair of Yamaha HS80's that will be fairly flat down to 40Hz room size and positioning dependant. A set of 'Hi-Fi' speakers flat down to 40Hz (and really down to 40, not just some piece of JVC stereo claiming to be flat down to 16Hz with added subwoofer) you're talking PMC/Bang & Olusen kind of cash.

Anyway if you dont buy active speakers you'll need an amp (extra cost) and and a dsp unit (extra cost) or you have to make or buy (extra cost) a passive cross over, to build bedroom speakers will cost you as much as a second hand set on studio's. HS80 or simular are too loud in a normal sized room with precision and clarity that no ipod dock / hi-fi would be able to stand up to. 



Really? You can't get hifi speakers flat to 40hz for under £200? Ermm. Though, if I'm picking a pair of speakers for personal use, low end extension ranks pretty low on priorities.

To me, hifi speakers sound more alive than equivalent studio monitors - and are often a hell of a lot more enjoyable to listen to!

But then again, I sometimes listen to music to enjoy it, not just to get out SMAART Tongue


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