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Hi I am planniing on getting a pair of powered monitors for my home studio. I was looking at the Behringer TRUTH but someone told me to stay away from all behfinger products. I also checked out Whardale's. I am looking to spend between 200-300. What would you guys recommend.

Thanks.

I have the Wharfedale Diamond Pros 8.1. i love them.
They also come with protective grilles. Good price and I think
they are some of the best looking. I tend to shy away from Behringer
as well. Also, you might check the Event ALP5.

Great I saw some pics of them and they really look cool. How loud are they you would say? I think I will get the Wharfedales.

never heard of wharfedales, but this review is pretty good:

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Oct04/a ... amond8.htm

They look like a good deal, inexpensive too!!

Monitors are pretty essential to your studio, unless you use headphones a lot. I know for home theater you want to spend 1/3 of your budget on speakers, but the studio is different, I don't know a figure to put to it.

Get the best you can for what you can spend, bad speakers are bad news.

I have a pair of Edirol MA-20D, and I think they are cheaper than the event ones.

Best sounding $300 monitors available now-a-days are the Tascam VL-X5.

I know it's weird that they're Tascam, but I'm tellin' ya. Pretty sweet for $300 a pair.

I have the samson resolv 65-a, and they are pretty accurate. They have different settings on them which allows you to make sure your mix isn't sweetened up by your monitors. They are around the same price range as well. Good luck

glu

For $200 a monitor you can get some very nice 5" self powered monitors... I love my yamahas long.

I've heard Wharfdales... I'd stay away... I worked in a pro audio store years ago and got to meet a rep and hear there passive club series speakers and i just didn't like them at all. You turned them past "civillian" volume and you just had terrible cracking and muffle.

I haven't heard the powered studio monitors though... prob. not much that different than Behringer...

For $300 go with the Alesis m1's. My 2 cents. I thnk Event may even make a pair for around that price range. The event tuned refernce or something like that?

Although Behringer is generally a "stay away" company - the Truth series monitors are very good for the money. My roommate has a pair and I've a/b'd them to my M-Audio Bx5-as (not a fair comparison, I know) and the Mackie HD280s. The Behringer's did very well against the Mackie's, which are way overpriced and the Bx5-a's had no low end in comparison.

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The Behringers were the ones that I was set on for a long while now. I am just wondering how long they would last. The Wharfedales I heard were pretty good. I wish they was a way to test them out. There arent any stores around that sells them. The guitar center in my area sucks so I by everything online. Besides the people who work there no nothing about any of the products that they sell.