By Stereoimaging, I mean the placement/spread of sounds and how accurately you can pick out frequencys panned and such.
I've always used headphones and currently have HI-X65's and HD800s and RME ADI-2 DAC
HI-x65 gives me an intimate stereoimage but the HD800s gives me a huge stereoimage where you can hear instruments going from side to middle very easily
I'd imagine this is somewhat of the difference the person below heard when he switched to SAM versions.
I've came upon some quotes such as
"I was on monitors the exact same size as yours, including the sub (8030a + 7050b), just not the SAM versions. They were great monitors and in my very well treated room, did a great job for mixing and recording duties. However it was clear I needed better for the job and I started auditioning monitors again. I came across the Genelec 8351a + GLM a couple years ago... and the difference was massive. what really surprised me was their ability to reproduce the most accurate, razor sharp stereo image I've ever heard from speakers (including some $130k systems I've heard at audiophile stores). Dry center panned instruments and vocals sound like theyre coming from a mono speaker right in front of my face. Wide instruments sound really wide. Phase widened instruments sound like surround sound, but that's rare to find due to extreme mono incompatibility. Stereo imaging became so obviously important to me after mixing on these monitors. Now I could tell when an instrument or vocal was resonating because certain frequencies would kind of "pile on" each other, were as on my previous system, I didn't notice because the stereo field was more smeared and less precise across different frequencies. So, not only are these a fantastic choice for listening, but theyre an invaluable tool for mixing. They've been so good, that I've actually taken up mastering now."
And this quote singlehandedly made me want to buy those monitors lol but they are like 8,000$ so of course, atleast for me, waaaaaaay out of budget.
I am wondering, why would these produce such a 3D stereoimage and not the Genelec 8030a's he had?
He mentioned SAM, which is room correction.
If he had used Sonarworks or IK Multimedia ARCs on his 8030a's, would they also have this 3D stereoimage presentation or is it something more about both monitors being part of the same DSP correction system?
Anyways, I'm searching for a pair of monitors that would be able to give me that type of stereoimage.
It's for mixing / mastering my own music as well as enjoying music, I'm in a small 10x12 room but I can make it work once I buy some bass traps / diffusors and acoustic treatment I believe lol
I heard some people talk about IK Multimedia MTM and that they gave a "stereoimage" of 5K+ speakers. I'm guessing it's the built in DSP again? In that case, would the IK Multimedia Percision MTM
be on par with Genelec's SAM stereoimaging and instrument placement?
Or do you have any reccomendations? Trying to keep the budget around 2K USD for the pair TBH
I've always used headphones and currently have HI-X65's and HD800s and RME ADI-2 DAC
HI-x65 gives me an intimate stereoimage but the HD800s gives me a huge stereoimage where you can hear instruments going from side to middle very easily
I'd imagine this is somewhat of the difference the person below heard when he switched to SAM versions.
I've came upon some quotes such as
"I was on monitors the exact same size as yours, including the sub (8030a + 7050b), just not the SAM versions. They were great monitors and in my very well treated room, did a great job for mixing and recording duties. However it was clear I needed better for the job and I started auditioning monitors again. I came across the Genelec 8351a + GLM a couple years ago... and the difference was massive. what really surprised me was their ability to reproduce the most accurate, razor sharp stereo image I've ever heard from speakers (including some $130k systems I've heard at audiophile stores). Dry center panned instruments and vocals sound like theyre coming from a mono speaker right in front of my face. Wide instruments sound really wide. Phase widened instruments sound like surround sound, but that's rare to find due to extreme mono incompatibility. Stereo imaging became so obviously important to me after mixing on these monitors. Now I could tell when an instrument or vocal was resonating because certain frequencies would kind of "pile on" each other, were as on my previous system, I didn't notice because the stereo field was more smeared and less precise across different frequencies. So, not only are these a fantastic choice for listening, but theyre an invaluable tool for mixing. They've been so good, that I've actually taken up mastering now."
And this quote singlehandedly made me want to buy those monitors lol but they are like 8,000$ so of course, atleast for me, waaaaaaay out of budget.
I am wondering, why would these produce such a 3D stereoimage and not the Genelec 8030a's he had?
He mentioned SAM, which is room correction.
If he had used Sonarworks or IK Multimedia ARCs on his 8030a's, would they also have this 3D stereoimage presentation or is it something more about both monitors being part of the same DSP correction system?
Anyways, I'm searching for a pair of monitors that would be able to give me that type of stereoimage.
It's for mixing / mastering my own music as well as enjoying music, I'm in a small 10x12 room but I can make it work once I buy some bass traps / diffusors and acoustic treatment I believe lol
I heard some people talk about IK Multimedia MTM and that they gave a "stereoimage" of 5K+ speakers. I'm guessing it's the built in DSP again? In that case, would the IK Multimedia Percision MTM
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Or do you have any reccomendations? Trying to keep the budget around 2K USD for the pair TBH