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ChiDJ wrote:

Priaprism Studios 1/2007. Where the dirty gets done.

SWEEET!

smutek wrote:Isn't it supposed to be bad to have your monitors on their sides like that?

Correctamundo...horizontally positioned 2-way speakers is bad.

Tannoy have a very good explanation why in their Reveal manual

http://www.tannoy-speakers.com/products ... ive_lo.pdf

Hay there ethios,,
I'm assuming those are Alesis M1's,,
Why have you got the ports on the out side?
I was under the impression they where supposed to be on the inside and have never tried them the other way in all the years i have had them.
Gimme your take on this???

Yep, those are M1 Active's. I got the ports-out/tweeters-in configuration from the manual. The ports are out on the diagram for the vertical configuration. Also, this line : "In fact, using a non-toed-in, tweeters-out orientation with a modern, wide-dispersion design like the M1 Active will increase the likelihood of hearing unwanted first reflections and a variety of phase anomalies in your mix."

okay,,
Guess i'll be tearing my studio apart at some point soon,,,
Cheers.

ethios4 wrote:Yep, those are M1 Active's. I got the ports-out/tweeters-in configuration from the manual. The ports are out on the diagram for the vertical configuration. Also, this line : "In fact, using a non-toed-in, tweeters-out orientation with a modern, wide-dispersion design like the M1 Active will increase the likelihood of hearing unwanted first reflections and a variety of phase anomalies in your mix."

I'm more concerned about the Hard Drive sitting right under the speaker - I hope they're well shielded!!

there is on way I could put a HD that close to my NS-10s without wiping it

forge wrote:I'm more concerned about the Hard Drive sitting right under the speaker - I hope they're well shielded!!

indeed!! Damn, I've never even thought of that! Data loss has never been a problem, but maybe I'll move those drives a little further away

Those western digital MyBooks suck anyway...always turning themselves on and off...

ethios4 wrote:

forge wrote:I'm more concerned about the Hard Drive sitting right under the speaker - I hope they're well shielded!!

indeed!! Damn, I've never even thought of that! Data loss has never been a problem, but maybe I'll move those drives a little further away

Those western digital MyBooks suck anyway...always turning themselves on and off...

Last winter my wife and I were staying with her dad while saving for our house. I had all of my stuff set up on a jerker desk in this little bedroom, with my tower on top of the desk flush with my monitor on the right and one of the audio monitors on the left. Didn't want the tower on the floor for some odd reason.

Never occurred to me that the vibrations from the audio monitor prob wouldn't be good for my hard drive. Long story short, eventually it crashed my hard drive. Booted up one day and just got a question mark symbol, no bootable drives...

Fortunately I had just installed a secondary 300 gig internal drive like three days prior... so with a firewire cable, my powerbook and target disk mode recovery wasn't a problem.

But I learned my lesson the hard way.

smutek wrote:

ethios4 wrote:

forge wrote:I'm more concerned about the Hard Drive sitting right under the speaker - I hope they're well shielded!!

indeed!! Damn, I've never even thought of that! Data loss has never been a problem, but maybe I'll move those drives a little further away

Those western digital MyBooks suck anyway...always turning themselves on and off...

Last winter my wife and I were staying with her dad while saving for our house. I had all of my stuff set up on a jerker desk in this little bedroom, with my tower on top of the desk flush with my monitor on the right and one of the audio monitors on the left. Didn't want the tower on the floor for some odd reason.

Never occurred to me that the vibrations from the audio monitor prob wouldn't be good for my hard drive. Long story short, eventually it crashed my hard drive. Booted up one day and just got a question mark symbol, no bootable drives...

Fortunately I had just installed a secondary 300 gig internal drive like three days prior... so with a firewire cable, my powerbook and target disk mode recovery wasn't a problem.

But I learned my lesson the hard way.

it's not vibrations I was talking abuot but magnetic field

I put my NS10s next to a CRT monitor once and it totally warped the screen - made that distorted thing that happens when you put a magnet on a TV

there's a massive magnet in a speaker, and Hard drives are still magnetic

some speakers are shielded though, but I still dont know how close I'd put a HD

Part of the reason i have hung on to my M1's all this time has been for the very simple reason that i have always found my self in places where i have had very little room to build my work space. Right now i have it all set up in a very small alcove that is crammed into a side of my living space. Both my monitors and both my external drives are right up next to my M1's and i get zero interference. these things are so well shielded it's unbelievable. I've seen other set ups with better quality speakers having all kinds of trouble in this regard.
At one point i even had my G5 laying on it's side with one monitor on top, both hard drives sitting flush and the M1's either side of that!!!
Still no issues,,,

Homebelly wrote:Part of the reason i have hung on to my M1's all this time has been for the very simple reason that i have always found my self in places where i have had very little room to build my work space. Right now i have it all set up in a very small alcove that is crammed into a side of my living space. Both my monitors and both my external drives are right up next to my M1's and i get zero interference. these things are so well shielded it's unbelievable. I've seen other set ups with better quality speakers having all kinds of trouble in this regard.
At one point i even had my G5 laying on it's side with one monitor on top, both hard drives sitting flush and the M1's either side of that!!!
Still no issues,,,

yeah they must be well shielded then

cant do that with NS10s

forge wrote:

Homebelly wrote:Part of the reason i have hung on to my M1's all this time has been for the very simple reason that i have always found my self in places where i have had very little room to build my work space. Right now i have it all set up in a very small alcove that is crammed into a side of my living space. Both my monitors and both my external drives are right up next to my M1's and i get zero interference. these things are so well shielded it's unbelievable. I've seen other set ups with better quality speakers having all kinds of trouble in this regard.
At one point i even had my G5 laying on it's side with one monitor on top, both hard drives sitting flush and the M1's either side of that!!!
Still no issues,,,

yeah they must be well shielded then

cant do that with NS10s

I know,, right??
swear to god,, if the sky starts falling on our heads,, i'm climbing in side my M1's with as much canned food as i can.

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