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Hi,

I have a pair of studio monitors I use during the day, I have neighbors that I do not want to disturb at night and am looking for a decent speaker set up for my laptop, any suggestions which models are somewhat ideal for music production?

Thanks!

Headphones

yeah, no headphones.. although I do use them. ;0

In the past few years I have had to make music at low volumes to not disturb housemates too much. Headphones give me ear fatigue within 20-30 mins and even on low gain big studio monitors leak too much sound into other rooms. I have tried making music with different cheap (£10-30) pc speakers and results haven't been good. So I invested a rather modest sum of £100 in a pair Bose Companion 2 speakers and I love them! It has been great to finally make music 'quietly' and not be paranoid about annoying your fellow human beings.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=bose+sucks

Bose is up there with Monster as far as a-hole audio companies. do not give them money, they lie and rip people off. they have massive overhead with their stores and advertising. some of their stuff can sound good but they're NEVER a cost effective solution. fuck Bose.


Caymus - how much can you spend?

Caymus Cab wrote:yeah, no headphones.. although I do use them. ;0

I am referring to decent headphones I.e. not cheap dj bass biased shit.

I have good headphones, just looking for something instead of my laptop speakers,...

@ Tone Deft, about $100, in that price range.

thanks.

Caymus Cab wrote:I have good headphones, just looking for something instead of my laptop speakers,...

about $100, in that price range.

honestly, something you will come to realize if you REALLY want to make electronic music, you need to invest in production monitors.

It's like painting with dark amber sunglasses on. you're not hearing the true sound.

also, the more you invest in a good system, the lower you can have the volume and keep a clean monitoring signal.

there was a similar thread on here very recently...

at that price you should go for headphones. you might find used monitors for $100 that sound OK but IMO you should spend ~$500 or so. I haven't shopped for a while but that seems to be where good ones start. mediocre monitors will be fatiguing and even if they sound good at first within months you'll hear where they lack.

it doesn't matter what you do with Live, what you learn or how well you craft songs if you can't hear it right.

or just do what you think is right, it's your studio, your hobby, all that.

my $0.02.



stonee - not all music is electronic music.

Caymus Cab wrote:I have good headphones, just looking for something instead of my laptop speakers,...

@ Tone Deft, about $100, in that price range.

thanks.

Sorry fella, I don't want to come across as a kunt and be the bringer of bad news but 100 really won't cut it. Can you save up for a bit?


Unless you spend shit loads of money on soundproofing your room you aint gonna be able to use any monitors late at night.

For headphones u should be looking at 200 plus and then u should buy the appropriate headphone amp if u want the best out of them. My 0.02 euros

Just to be clear - the daytime speakers are in a separate studio location? If not, why not just use those monitors in the evening and turn the volume down - get used to monitoring quietly. Whatever non-headphone solution you get, it's going to be the same volume that the neighbo(u)rs hear (and you can always roll off the bass).

Edit: PS: I'm happy to extol the virtues of Genelec's linear response down through low volumes, but even the tiny 8020 are way outside your budget.

Grado SR60i for 130€ are incredible for the price, SR80i cost slightly more and are even better.
If you’re looking for rugged headphones that you’ll also be able to use for DJing get Sennheiser HD25-IIs also around ~150€.

If you’re looking for something around 100€ I’d say you’re out of luck. You have some pretty neat sounding bargains for much less (Koss Porta Pros, Sennheiser px200ii) and actual audiophile/studio quality headphones starting at 150€.

100€ is a terrible price range, too much for entry level headphones and not enough for good quality.

thanks for the response! lol , I already have a good pair of monitors to listen/mix tracks etc etc, Event 20/20's.. love them.
I am not looking to mix on the cheapo speakers, however just looking for a pair of desktop speakers, one I can place next to my laptop.. I may have worded this all wrong, sorry. But here's a pic of what I am thinking and was just wondering if there are any Live users here that prefer a particular model.
http://coolestgadgetsandgizmos.com/2009 ... -speakers/

oooph, I puked in my mouth...

take what I said about Bose and remove the part about "can sound good."

go check them out in person, see if you like them.