[ChristopheRonald]

so i just bought my first pair of monitors. i bought the m audio bx8a
ones. for 300 bucks plus 35 bucks shipping i couldnt pass. anyways. on
to my question.

what should i do to make sure they are in good working order? what
sort of tests should i run? ive been into music for ages, but
recording is somewhat new to me, and these are the first real monitors
i have owned. what should i do?

thanks for your time in advance...

[Boris Lau]

ChristopheRonald wrote:
what should i do to make sure they are in good working order? what

1. Put up some music and listen. If anything is wrong you should be able
to hear it. If not, you don't need monitors anyway.

2. In case you really don't know what to listen for, make sure both ways
(tweeter, woofer) are working on both speakers. Listen for odd
distortions coming from broken membranes. See 1.

Boris

--
http://www.borislau.de - computer science, music, photos

[[email protected]]

On Apr 24, 4:23 am, ChristopheRonald
wrote:
so i just bought my first pair of monitors. i bought the m audio bx8a
ones. for 300 bucks plus 35 bucks shipping i couldnt pass. anyways. on
to my question.

what should i do to make sure they are in good working order? what
sort of tests should i run? ive been into music for ages, but
recording is somewhat new to me, and these are the first real monitors
i have owned. what should i do?

thanks for your time in advance...

Why is it that you "couldn't pass" up this "deal", when you've never
even heard them? How could you know whether or not it was a good deal?
Not being snippy here, I seriously want to know what the rationale is.

Strange how people spend money on audio gear sight unseen, but no one
would even consider buying a car without test-driving it first.

-dave M.

[RDOGuy]

On Apr 24, 4:23 am, ChristopheRonald
wrote:

what should i do to make sure they are in good working order? what
sort of tests should i run?

I'll assume that you don't have testing gear, etc.

Put them side by side, and listen to a mono signal. Set up an A/B
comparison by having someone else stand behind them (so you can stay
in the same place) and have them use the gain controls to switch back
and forth between them... turn one down, then turn it back up while
turning the other one down... back and forth. If you can't detect a
difference in how each one sounds, they're probably fine - or else
they each have an identical problem!

And what Boris said.

John Dixon
Phonogenic Productions
Kansas City

[Scott Dorsey]

wrote:
so i just bought my first pair of monitors. i bought the m audio bx8a
ones. for 300 bucks plus 35 bucks shipping i couldnt pass. anyways. on
to my question.

what should i do to make sure they are in good working order? what
sort of tests should i run? ive been into music for ages, but
recording is somewhat new to me, and these are the first real monitors
i have owned. what should i do?

It's a bit late now to worry about that. Just listen and learn to like
them, whatever they sound like. Next time you might want to audition
monitors first before you drop the money on the table, but it's a bit
late to worry about it now.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[ChristopheRonald]

i talked to alot of friends i trust about what i could get for the
money i wanted to spend. one of em even helped record cursive and some
other saddle creek bands, so i trust his opinon the most. good bang
for my buck i think. im not musically retarded so to speak. just new
to some aspects of recording.

[Scott Dorsey]

ChristopheRonald wrote:
i talked to alot of friends i trust about what i could get for the
money i wanted to spend. one of em even helped record cursive and some
other saddle creek bands, so i trust his opinon the most. good bang
for my buck i think. im not musically retarded so to speak. just new
to some aspects of recording.

Monitors are ALL very colored, especially in the low price range. As
a result, they become very personal decisions, because the kind of
coloration one person can live with is very different than the kind of
coloration someone else can live with. As a result, buying anything like
this without spending some serious auditioning time is a very bad idea.

I mean, I could tell you what I like at that price range, but you may
find it unusable. And I know folks who get good balanced mixes working
only with NS-10s, and I'd probably kill myself if I had to listen to those
things all day.

There are a lot of "boxers vs. tighty whitey" decisions in the monitor world.
Some people like one thing, some people like another. Some people take
the planar approach and go for thongs, even.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."