Scott Dorsey wrote:
ScotFraser wrote:

That said, I'd rather lick a toilet seat than have to use a Mackie
SR 24-4 again.

Thanks, Scott. I'm trying to eat breakfast here. Now I'll have the revolting
image of mixing on an SR24-4 in my mind all day. You rotter.


But their little studio monitors aren't half bad

Not only not half bad, I find them far easier on the ears over a period of many
hours than the Genelecs which cost considerably more & are as ubiquitous in
studios now as Auratones used to be.


Check out the new Genelecs, though! Apparently the competition from the Mackie
and Hafler monitors basically drove them to revamp their lower end models,
and the improvement is considerable.

I was fairly impressed with the demo I heard at AES. Impressed enough that I have a pair of 8040A's coming next week for eval.



However, the new ones are all pretty much voiced to sound the same,
unlike the 103x series. This gives you a lot less of a choice;
you get a bigger monitor and all you get is improved LF
extension, no other real changes.

And a little more output level.

The 8050A has an 1800 Hz crossover and a 1" dome (versus 3k crossover and a 3/4" dome on the 8030A and 8040A.)