ef37a wrote: ↑Tue May 30, 2023 12:06 pmMost people are NOT without some RT. Most people do not live with hard floors and a chrome and glass Scandi minimalist room. Most of us have carpets, curtains (drapes to our colonial cousins) and squishy furniture. That give a degree of treatment that is I would argue a decent staring point to assess speakers. FFS! The next time you decorate and strip a room to emptiness and possibly bare boards, take a moment to listen to it! Not the same as the habitable space most of us live and work in. (e.g. not a *&^%$Ng cellar!)
Dave.
That's what I think. It is actually my (not that) small living, working, sleeping, making-music and hell-lot-more room

So my thoughts are: Buy some decent monitors in my price range, that do sound good and neutral as possible. See if low end is enough (if I mix on something with 4", I would assume by all physics learned that it's hard to deliver the same response @60Hz compared to 8" woofer, no?)
So if low end won't please me, I'll think about a subwoofer. Of course, I can put headphones on to check the lows, but then again, why to have monitors at all, when I'm switching for every instrument fine tuning in mix between two totally different devices?
Next step: Finding room problems. I just generated some sine-sweep easily in Logic, ran it on my shitty Mackies and a consumer Yamaha Sub Bass I still have. Huge resonance at around 58Hz, and of course corresponding harmonics/octaves.
Now for even more details I'll purchase sonarworks with a mic, too (this is planned in my budget, as well as ISO decoupling stands for the monitors, located on my desk)
Then I could think about equalising / DSP adaption (easier if monitor has a controllable DSP, like Adams A7V, if not, doing it the the output channel while mixing (and hopefully not forgetting to bypass when bouncing).
Better than EQing: Room treatment. Now, with chosen monitors and subs, having had first correction, I wil have a better start for decent treatment.
Is it somehow clear what I mean? Or am I horribly wrong with this?