looking for advice on home studio monitors.

[Oldrottenhead]

heart of the sunrise always got me at an emotional level, my aunt and her husband and daughter lived with us a few weeks before emigrating to Australia and i always associated that song with them,the lyrics conjure up images of them on the cruise ship that took them there.

[Hook]

1973 was a good year!

I picked up some JBL 3s the other day and boy they sound sweet. I've been having a lot of trouble mixing my new cd and really felt like my cheap monitors and my headphones were lying to me. Hopefully the JBLs will be truthful.
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[leighelse]

Drifting tangentially away from the topic ...

I was very lucky to pick up a pair of Lambert Audio studio speakers twenty years ago. At the time they needed re-coning and the tweeters were blown, but they were free to me. I'd be surprised if anyone else on Songcrafters has heard of Lambert - it was a New Zealand company which hand-made outstanding (and extremely pricey) speakers in the eighties and nineties.

It cost me a total of NZD500 (roughly two flat rocks in your currency) to fit replacement dome tweeters and have the drivers factory re-coned. And they've been fantastic: they show up every flaw. They are a little large, and the cabinets are somewhat marked, but I have no plans to replace them. I found a review of the speakers here: http://www.audioreview.com/cat/speakers/floorstanding-speakers/why-products/lambert-audio/prd_486476_1594crx.aspx

With these in my studio space, I make a lot of use of the BR1600's speaker modelling when I'm mixing down. A trick I learnt early on when mixing is to turn the volume down well below comfortable listening: you're quickly aware of what you can't hear. This is particularly true when using some of the speaker modelling settings.