Hugh Robjohns wrote: But in fairness, different people respond to what they hear in different ways, and the monitor speakers are just tools, so all that really matters is whether your preferred speakers enable you to make good reliable mixes that travel well. Some people can achieve that with NS10s (I'm not one of them!). Others can do it with headphones (I'm not one of them either!).
... Each to their own I say!
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I'm pleased to read that! I've got cheap Tascams which I've had for years but I'd like to think they serve me well. I still think occasionally about replacing / upgrading but funds are a bit tight and anyway, probably more importantly, I've grown so accustomed to them that I now consider them to be highly reliable for me. Most of my work is done using decent headphones and I only go to the monitors at the last stages of the production (providing I remember to switch over as per my "Schoolboy error" post!!).
I recently changed my hi-fi speakers having had the original pair for several years, and I've still not got used to the new ones. And it's not like they're poor quality.
Hugh Robjohns wrote:I'd say the KH120s... certainly don't present music with any hype, anyway, and mixing through them is hard work because they reveal any weaknesses pretty clearly.
An exception is a mild tendency to "one note bass". It may not be noticed on a flat monitor, but on another cheaper speaker with the same exaggerated bass response at the problem note, the effect will double and may then be an issue. On the other hand, another cheap speaker might have the exact complementary bass response, evening the problem out perfectly, but you wouldnt want to count on it.
In the end there's no substitute for listening attentively to even excellent monitors like these for any tendency for unevenness that has slipped through into the mix. The monitors cant do this for us.
