Their Inpulse 500 dj controller is awesome. Hercules and Akai are my favorite companies this year. Free MPC Beats software, MPK mini, MPC One, Live 2, tons of affordable gear available today for sure.

Yes, I think they would be good. From talking with other sound engineers, they get to really know their gear so they have an idea how it sounds on other devices.

On top of that, the Edifier has a bass/ treble adjustment +-6 dB. I am able to put it in any room I ever want and get the bass and treble very nicely. I am not using a sub with the Edifiers and I really don’t miss the bass at all!

It's fun to see what you can do with affordable gear. It makes this hobby more fun an accessible to everyone.

Glad it helped! 🙌

So what do you think? I still use them at my desk!

Good for both.

@@joentell thanks !

I'm very happy with my purchase. They sound great and the price is nice. Check out digitaldjgear on ebay they have a few sets left

Yes

Thanks El Jefe! I got some those KS10 Pros you recommended, some foam tips to mess around with and a nicer cable. It should come one of these days. It will be more for video podcasts. I've also started to like live monitoring my audio while doing the talking head stuff for my videos.

Thanks. I've never tried them

We'll find out soon ;-)

I think it will

I have never tried the SX6's actually. I always wanted to. I just looked on Newegg and saw some other models, but not the Monitor 5's.

@@joentellYeah, I think what I saw were probably the DJ's, sorry. Here's a couple of sound demos of the SX6's: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nsufaZmK2bCzYas.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fc92as5hyr_Gfn0.html

Either will do a good job.

@@joentell would suggest something better with some more money ?

I think the best investment after some decent speakers is a MiniDSP 2x4 and UMIK-1 for room calibration. If you're not into that, you can spend more on speakers. A lot of people like the Adam Audio stuff but I haven't reviewed it. After DSP, a sub would be my next move. Get some good stands too to reduce the desk reflection. I like the SoundRise Pro 5 for my desk.

@@joentell thank you

The update is not about loudness, but more about refining the sound a bit. I haven't done the update yet so I can't say. I plan on doing it soon.

@@joentell So there IS a firmware update for the T1E? I looked and can't find it on their site. TIA.

@@flak73 Please email the guys at Vanatoo. I promise you they are very responsive. I don't want to send you the update they sent me because it's possible that they've made more updates since then.

@@joentell Thanks, guy. I have the T0's on my desk and then got the T1E earlier this year to replace the Mirage 5.1 system in my medium-size living room. There was an issue with my initial T1E set and they were very responsive in taking care of the problem. They have been FANTASTIC so far, but.I've been a bit underwhelmed with the volume/loudness though which is why I was asking the question about the firmware. Just curious since I'm signed up for email updates and I haven't received any notices regarding firmware updates. Thanks for the work you guys are putting in with these reviews and whatnot.

I've never tested the 305's only the 306P's.

As well as the Kali Audio LP series, the under $300 market is stacked with a lot of really good choices

Those iLouds look cool. I have some JBL 306P's. Review will be out soon.

I would be down to try out the Kali ones.

@@joentell let's make it happen!

They do

Studio monitors almost always do

Tnks

I just haven't reviewed them

okay your reviews are very detailed love your page

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@@joentell oh hah just that its affordable now that if someone has the talent they dont have to (in a dream world) be hired by a studio to work with equipment or be limited by a high entry price. If im not mistaken, the iphone mic is almost flat to 105 db.

I don't know about the iPhone mic, but physics still applies. Small mic won't capture bass the same as a large diaphragm capsule. Like speakers you know. But yeah, this democratization of music/video etc. is a beautiful thing. Content is still king though.

@@joentell A tiny little omni electret or MEMS mic actually captures bass just the same as a larger one, because all it needs to do is sense the sound pressure, which is not dependent on the area. Cardioid mics, i.e. mics with compensation ports, have to have a larger baffle in order to lose less of the bass, because they reject rear or off-axis sound by subtraction, so with lower frequencies, you always have some sound pressure both coming in from the front and from the ports in the back, pushing on the same membrane from different sides, cancelling the pressure out, thus the bass roll-off. In omni mics where the back of the membrane is sealed, there is no bass roll-off. Of course a problem of a 4mm or 6mm omni mic is that it's fairly noisy, doubly so, once electrically, and once by collecting unwanted noise from all around. But have you looked at your measurement microphone? The end of the less expensive ones is usually a straight up electret omni capsule, and it's fairly small, 6 or 9mm. Depending on electronics, they could get it sensitive down to almost DC levels, but it's usually cut off somewhere sensible. And you said it yourself, you can get any bass frequency out of any speaker size, the question is only, how loud. The how-loud question is also relevant for microphones, but in reverse, since you can imagine sound spreading in a sphere section or some kind of area pattern from any given source, the less area you have for the membrane, the less energy you get to harvest useful signal, and the more difficulty there is fighting inherent thermal and electrical noise, and this issue affects all frequencies equally. This is why you probably don't want to record vocals with an iPhone, besides weird compensation behaviour via DSP and secondary microphone hidden at the camera. Phones use omni microphones specifically, and use at least two of them at opposite ends of the handset for DSP noise suppression. That being said you can get so much cheap, perfectly workable stuff, it's amazing. Superlux PRA D1 is like $20. I have seen $10 dynamic mics which sound perfectly fine, especially if you can just clamp them in there and resist touching them. $15 condensers from China are junk, but there are people modifying them into something fairly reasonable. Usually stuff musicians discard is fairly easy to repair and get going again.

Thank you for correcting me. That's awesome. I appreciate you taking the time to inform me and others. 🙏

For editing. Let's not get it twisted! You know I love bass bro!!!!