In article , ScotFraser
wrote:

1. Have you ever heard 809s that actually worked? They are very colored,
but they are very forward sounding. I can't stand them for monitoring
but they are great for playback for the customer. BRBR

I thought they were much worse than the 813's, which are themselves an
acquired
taste.

Scott Fraser


I've owned and lived with both of these guys, first the 809's, then the
813, for a couple decades. Unlike Scot above, I found the 809's much
easier to live with. If I were to create a small home control room
today it's probably what I would put in them. But of course they don't
have the low bottom end and sheer kick of it's big brother.

In fact, when I moved into my current control room, which was designed
around the 813 box, I half seriously said I wanted to swap the big guys
out for my old 809's.

It was a while later when I learned that the mic preamp in the Klark
Teknik analyzer that my control room monitor guy used to calibrate the
room was off. When we used the GML pre instead to cal the room
everything got right fast.

It is a well designed, great control room that I did not create but I
get to work in. I would not want anything to do with *any* large
monitor in a crappily designed control room.




David Correia
Celebration Sound
Warren, Rhode Island


www.CelebrationSound.com