paulraphael
Active Member
Hi, I'm looking for a replacement for a pair of KRK Rokit 8" active monitors. Hoping for something with comparable performance, but ideally smaller and more reliable.
These are my girlfriend's speakers. She's a musician, and bought them based purely on listening to a bunch of stuff at the store. They probably have a bit of an upper bass bump that she likes. But I'd be comfortable setting up some kind of eq to dial in the FR.
Nowadays we use the speakers mostly for casual music listening and watching Netflix, so we don't have need for studio-level accuracy. We want to replace because they keep breaking. Specifically, the circuit board on one of them has developed a defect and makes random ugly noise. The internet says this is a common failure. I found a used amp module for it online and replaced it, but less than 6 months later a similar problem appeared in the new module.
We'd also love to find something that doesn't look like an enormous plastic yellow lizard eye.
I've read a bunch of reviews here, and was attracted to the Adam T5V and a couple of similar 5" monitors. But I'm wondering how these will do, considering that we're not using them for actual near-field use. The speakers will be in our pandemic-special living room / dining room / her office / my office, and we'll mostly be 5 to 10 feet from the speakers when listening. We don't listen loud, but would love to have reasonable bass response without the complications of a sub. If we can keep it under $500 a pair that would be ideal. But you could convince us to negotiate.
Any thoughts? Thanks so much for all the hard work and great insights on this site.
These are my girlfriend's speakers. She's a musician, and bought them based purely on listening to a bunch of stuff at the store. They probably have a bit of an upper bass bump that she likes. But I'd be comfortable setting up some kind of eq to dial in the FR.
Nowadays we use the speakers mostly for casual music listening and watching Netflix, so we don't have need for studio-level accuracy. We want to replace because they keep breaking. Specifically, the circuit board on one of them has developed a defect and makes random ugly noise. The internet says this is a common failure. I found a used amp module for it online and replaced it, but less than 6 months later a similar problem appeared in the new module.
We'd also love to find something that doesn't look like an enormous plastic yellow lizard eye.
I've read a bunch of reviews here, and was attracted to the Adam T5V and a couple of similar 5" monitors. But I'm wondering how these will do, considering that we're not using them for actual near-field use. The speakers will be in our pandemic-special living room / dining room / her office / my office, and we'll mostly be 5 to 10 feet from the speakers when listening. We don't listen loud, but would love to have reasonable bass response without the complications of a sub. If we can keep it under $500 a pair that would be ideal. But you could convince us to negotiate.
Any thoughts? Thanks so much for all the hard work and great insights on this site.
