Need new monitors asap

Typical “used” monitors online
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Well at least the raddles don’t affect the noise. I hate when the noise is affected by raddles.

“can also hear some raddles from the inside but doesn’t affect the noise“

I’ve long been curious about PSI 14. Studer used to rebrand PSI and these were the broadcast truck things I believe.

Here’s a 2 hour review of budget options I don’t have time to look at

I've been living with the JBL LSR 305 mk II for a weekend and mastered an electronic record on them and an old pair of HD 25. I'm not really doing anything differently. They have some horn flare at the top end but otherwise, they're pretty good, like JBL made NS10s. They're more normal than most of the expensive JBLs too.

Horrible distribution here, class d, and ad/da conversion. Dynaudio is a Chinese owned hifi company now. I was advised by a tech to not buy them because of their lack of long term support for their plate amps. Dynaudio did not get back to pro audio dealers I contacted in a reasonable time, referred me to local hifi shops on a list, and didn’t get back to them either.

Dan

I think it comes down to design and build quality ?

Exactly and with good DSP it's simple to phase align and EQ specifically to a room, placement, position or even furniture. There's a desk setting on mine, it works a treat ..

I don’t care if people fawn over those Genelecs with oval shaped PA woofer and aggressive limiters. I can’t even get Dynaudio to sell me their products, yet alone fix them!

DSP can do a lot, but in far too many cases these days it’s used to make crappy drivers useable. Dan sort of bumps into this, in the old days most builders in the pro market understood that they needed to be able to support their customers because in the pro world their are situations that are going to happen and can easily take out a driver. What this meant is even the cheap Tannoy reveals were built with relabeled drivers you could get with a quick call to the likes of Madisound (former client), Parts Express or Solen. These were mostly stock drivers and in some cases custom built on stock motors you could get through either the speaker builder or the driver manufacturer. Now there are so many generic Chinese OEM’s that come and go that a lot of even fairly reputable builders will buy a load of cheap generic surplus drivers use the DSP to make them exceptable, then revise the speaker for their next batch. Anyone in speaker world has noticed that you no longer see the above listed suppliers selling surplus OEM drivers usually sourced from the OEMs. This is because the newer cheaper OEM’s are selling them to other speaker manufacturers.

I don’t personally like most Class D amps, I have Class A, A/AB and a couple of thousand watts of class A sitting around. In talking to the guys from a couple of highly regarded builders one of the biggest reasons for using plate amps is the simplicity.
It’s right there on the chassis, fairly high output that will run off of fairly low current & the biggie DSP makes protection pretty easy.

The flip side of DSP in modern plate amps is its growing use in the world of classic old Speaker world. Man do old JBL’s sound so much better with some really steep x- over filters with phase correction, a little EQ here and there not to mention the ease of dialing in non- asymmetrical filters.

DSP can make a poor designer look like a genius ( yeah I’m including myself in that) the one area I won’t use DSP in a studio monitor but I know others seam to like to use it is if my choice of drivers don’t have the same dynamic profile they will apply a little compression to the more dynamic drivers rather than choose a better driver.

Hedd, PMC, and Dynaudio are doing the smart thing and using off the shelf modules so you can plug in anything you want there if you really want to. The danger is if the DSP crossover breaks and you can't repair it. Not a big deal in a couple hundred dollar pair of speakers but you're stuck having to recreate the crossover yourself then for your expensive ones. For stuff like the JBL LSR 700 series it's being done already with REW and MiniDSP units to use better and sturdier amps than the awful Crown drivecores but for others with way more complex crossovers and manufacturers unwilling or unable to repair, eg Sennheiser with older Neumann Klein and Hummel speakers or Dynaudio with the Airs and the TC Electronics made crossovers, you're just screwed and better off selling them for parts or taking them to an electronic recycling facility.

The crazy thing is almost all of those 90s Dynaudio speakers still have working drivers! The amps in the BMs used junk and are what gave out. Meanwhile Questeds and good old KRKs mostly have blown Morel and Focal/JMLabs tweeters.