| Matt from New Orleans |
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| Subject: | Great Studio Monitor at a Great Price |
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| The speakers are quit big and I was surprised at first. Like I said they are uncolored and honest. If you have a pop click or hiss you will hear it. Try playing your favorite albums through these guys and you'll be amazed at some of the mistakes you'll hear that the studios didn't catch, that's when I knew these were the real deal. |
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| They sound really good and the features were what I was looking for. I was considering some M-audio in the same price range.My friend had the $499 M-audio for the pair but these were way better. You get great control over your hi's and low's which the M-audios didn't offer and had way to much low end but these you can adjust just right to get an accurate uncolored true sound. They can be on the low end side a tad bit until adjusted and in some circumstances the room treated with a bass trap or two. |
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| They were really easy to use. Just hook them up and make sure you have your mixer on mute and all the way down. Crank the the back and set them all at normal and turn up the mixer. Then just adjust the gain on the speakers for your room and sensitivity on the main mixer. There are no marks on the gain knob just a little slit you can align with a little screw driver or marking yourself to get each speaker at the same level if you don't want them at 10. |
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| The tone is great but like I said they can be a little on the low end if you don't properly adjust them to you room. Make sure they are not directly against the walls and buy some of those pads to decouple them to get the most out of them. The Highs are very accurate also. I listen to some pro mixes from major studios and caught mistakes I never hear before. Like a synth not cross faded out and cutting off. You can hear great detail in mixes and that's what you want in a studio monitor! When i brought up my old mixes I was amazed at how off I was. I remixed some songs and then played them from a normal stereo, ipod, car ect. and they sounded great in all of them! Cut down on a whole lot of extra mixing I use to do! |
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| The only problem I had was when I first got them. You need to ground them and break them in a little. One sounded a little lower than the other till I grounded it and wore them in for a day or two and broke in my new trs cables. But I'm very happy with these and think they are perfect for any home studio. You can't go wrong with these! |
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| Overall I like these a lot and I didn't have to break bank to get them for my home studio. One thing is you want to make sure to set them up right. At first I had issues monitoring at low levels and my neighbors not liking it so much. Do your research and they will work on your room big or small. I realized I had the bass ports 3inches from the wall and the gain on the back all the way up. This made my main on the mixer very sensitive and my whole apartment really bassy. For an apartment or smaller room I recommend setting them up long ways like a triangle facing them. Also keeping the gain at 60 on the back depending on room size and overall sensitivity. This way you have more control on the main and the bass equals out. I recommend having at least 6feet between the back and the front like a triangle so they won't reflect into the walls. This will make for better sound and not carry into the next room as much. But overall besides just learning, these are the best in this price range. |
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| Yes |
| Date submitted:
| 10/23/09 |
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| Jose from San Diego CA |
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| Subject: | Great sound for the money, but... |
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| See my comment on "reliability"
I read on the Mackie forum that Mackie have moved production to China and unfortunately there is been issues with QC
In this case it seems the limiters that are compressing the signal are not properly calibrated to the correct RMS level and hence the not robust (cheap?) tweeters fry easy... |
| Features:
| Nice adjustable parameters to adjust sound to your room/studio. |
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| Couldn't be easier, except for perhaps a power button in the front instead of the back, but no big deal, I control all power from my rack with a switcher. |
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| Simply awesome for this price range, excellent sound. |
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| I had this monitors since June of 2008, bought them here at AMS. They had very light use and since I work in a small home studio I always keep the gain dial at back of them turned at around 60%, and the main outs never go over 70% on my mixer, this is plenty loud in very well sound treated studio.
With that said, I did a compilation of my mastered songs for auditioning, at about 40 minutes of play the left tweeter went out, I thought it was the over excursion protection switch that had gone off to protect the tweeter, so I turned off the pair, later when I turned off again, both the tweeters were not working... I am very glad I purchase them here at AMS, Mackie gives only 1 year warranty on the MR8's but AMS gave me a free extra year with the gold lock protection warranty, they were awesome and painless to deal with, my MR8's now in service and will be returned to me at no cost, except for $40 I paid for shipping the set to them, thank you AMS! |
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| Solid built, heavy, looks very nice in the studio, love the sound, and love the price, but see bellow for reliability and quality. |
| Do you own this product?:
| Yes, I own them |
| Date submitted:
| August 28 of 2009 |
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| aaron brett from wichita ks |
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| Subject: | mackie mr8 best for the money |
| Quality:
| nice and heavy,soild built |
| Features:
| pretty basic...you got your inputs and a gain and two db switchs one for the high one for the low...but that all you want for mixing |
| Ease of Use:
| plug and go |
| Sound:
| very flat,which is good they really give you a good mix....once you and your eq and your efx they start to brighten up |
| Reliability:
| cant beat em |
| Overall:
| best powered monitors for the money!!!! |
| Do you own this product?:
| yes |
| Date submitted:
| 02/02/09 |