Good Studio Monitors for simple home studio

[leedsquietman]

The Samson Rubicon 5A and 6A are actually decent monitors *in their price range* - the newer Resolve A6 are not rated as highly.

The Mediaone speakers are cheaper speakers inbetween multimedia and proper studio monitors so are not as neutral as the Rubicons - and also not as expensive.

Fine to begin with but you will probably want to trade up to something better in a couple of years.


Like Behringer, some Samson products are to be avoided at all costs, while others represent good product for the money.

[FenderBluesAAA]

The Samson Rubicon 5A and 6A are actually decent monitors *in their price range* - the newer Resolve A6 are not rated as highly.

The Mediaone speakers are cheaper speakers inbetween multimedia and proper studio monitors so are not as neutral as the Rubicons - and also not as expensive.

Fine to begin with but you will probably want to trade up to something better in a couple of years.


Like Behringer, some Samson products are to be avoided at all costs, while others represent good product for the money.

ya. I plan on upgrading some day. When I bought them, I knew I wasn't going to keep them forever.

But I think most monitors will be good for a starter.

[FenderBluesAAA]

sure.. how is it about guitars? would you stick for known brands there or buy one that nobody likes?

however.. for such a cheap price ...yamahas are twice as much and consodred cheap allready...

so as long you like working with them its not a bad buy..

its worse to spend lots of money for bad monitors.. thats easily possible in this hype world..

best test is to learn some mixing ..and than see to what quality of mixing your speaker leads.. when its time that you feel limited by the speaker you allready know more to have a better judgement on an expensiv pair...

so if you are a beginner its probably allwright to start with the taiwaneese axe and go to the gibson later...

same thing. When you start out playing guitar, your first guitar isn't usually and Fender American strat or a Gibson.

I think these monitors are good for first monitors. I plan on upgrading someday, of course. I know that $200 monitors won't work for me for ever.

[leedsquietman]

Now you need to get making some music and having some fun and not worrying about quality issues too much because you're real with yourself on the purchase. What you have is better than what you had before, so enjoy that and when you're ready to go to the next level, you will know when the time is right.