I own the KH 120 , they are great speakers , i live in an condo (small studio (13qm) with neighbours , therefore they are good. I paid about 1100 € for a pair ca. four years ago. If you live in an environment where you can be loud and want to produce bass heavy music i would go for an 8 Inch woofer with no sub (subs are a pain in the ass). I would go straight for used KH 310s or used Genelecs ( 8050s or 8350s) or new Adam A8hs

 

Those are square meters – for example, 5 x 4 meters = 20 sq m.

A cubic meter would be 5 x 4 x 2.4 meters.
So, it's the area of the room, not its volume.

 

It could be quantum measurement in qubits.

It was meant more as a prompt for the missing ceiling number and I asked because the math when trying to understand treatment is expressed three dimensially which would also include the height of the room...X x Y x Z.

 

He had only estimated the room size: "Gonna be a fairly small room around 20-25 square meters." He'd have to measure it precisely!
In Germany, height x width x depth!

 

You must try before you buy or at least be able to return them.

A few years ago I tried Neumanns, Genelecs etc, too dull for me, plumped for Adam A7X as they were cleaner to me, could see into the mix easier.

I told my great engineer, he said he had a pair at home but they were too bright for him und that's why i dig 'em, cos i got shit hearing and only one ear works, can't vouch for 7V's' as not quite same spec.

I'd guess the X's are maybe better, they remind me of NS10's, never owned a pair but all the studios back when used 'em.

I use a top studio and they have only Adam monitors including surround, but there's are bespoke.

Very important, choose wisely, don't be rushed, takes time to adjust, the previous studio i used had them, but i didn't rate them at first, but got there in the end, by comparing in shop, the 7x's suited my shit 'earing more than the others as i've lost a lot of top end, if you haven't they may be too bright for you, but a bit of tissue paper a la NS10,s will sort it.

 

sry, german native speaking, qm = quadratmeter = m2

 

damn theese look good, almost like to good to be true :D

 

I have already met more than few people that didn't like Adam's tweeters in the long run, hard to tell your taste...

imo Genelecs are vastly overrated, only great sounding model is (used) 8260 (which is way different budget tho), or coaxial 8331 which is great for constrained poorly treated spaces

 

or you can just pick coaxial 3-way Kali Audio IN-5 or IN-8v2, those folks are former JBL so they know their craft, and for the price those monitors are tier above anything else in that value range

 

Or simply Kali LP-6, which are based on LSR305 (same idea recreated by the same design team, after they left JBL and started their own company).

 

I work in a studio that has a pair of Adam A7V. That room is very small (12'X20'), but, treated acoustically. They sound OK. Lacking bottom end in that room, for sure. I can't imagine that the TV7 will be a step up from the A7V, but, I have no hands on experience with the TV7.
I used to work in a studio that had the KH120/750 combo, as well as a smaller room that had the KH80s. This led me to purchase my current rig which is KH120ii and a 750. I started with KH80s and a 750, but, needed just a little more volume for when I have clients that want to hear it loud. Using the 750s DSP to correct for EQ/phase, I can confidently just make a mix. No more checking it in the car, or the phone, or other systems. The mixes translate everywhere, and it just works. The stereo field is incredible. Definitely a fan of the Neumann monitors. If you have the money and it won't kill you financially, go for it. You won't regret the purchase. Could even just start with the KH120ii and use it's built in DSP to correct the room (as much as you can without treatment).

 

Neumann KH 120 II (2x769 EUR)
www.thomann.de/de/neumann_kh_120_ii.htm
www.neumann.com/de-de/produkte/monitors/kh-120-ii
- 30-day money-back guarantee
- 3-year Thomann warranty

ADAM - Audio T7V (2x199 EUR)
www.thomann.de/de/adam_t7v.htm
- 30-day money-back guarantee
- 3-year Thomann warranty

 

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once you get a chance to hear coaxial 3-way monitors (doesn't matter which brand or speaker model) you simply never go back to 2-way monitors, it's that different

 

They're really good. I have both, KH120 and JBL305. I bought the JBLs for the road. Sure, the 120ies are better. But I can work on the JBLs without being annoyed not to have my Neumanns.
If budget is an issue, they're more than worth their monney.

 

Tend to agree with this...

I haven't had to put up with apartment living for a long time, but I remember that it was a living hell. I had my JBL4411's then and still do now plus a bluesky surround system and a couple of sets of pedestrian types for checks. I tend to opt toward non-powered speakers using external power amps because most of the powered types I have heard seem to have issues keeping power supply hum and noise out of the audio output. I would hope that the bigger $$ devices would have better shielding and power supply design to minimize that kind of thing.

I have since gone to the Equalizer APO (on a win based computer setup) and have profiles for various headphone types that I have that work amazingly well. I have also created REW profiles for use with the APO for all my room speaker sets as well. It works very well indeed and is super easy to incorporate into your session workflow.

If you dont mind headphones a good pair of cans with a proper profile from the AutoEQ site would get you a great monitoring setup for much less than the big ticket powered monitors. Something to think about anyway and would solve the audio/neighbor interface issue as well.

 

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I need to check those headphone monitoring systems one day. I would like to know if they work. Just the headphones without treatment does not work for me, I can't mix on headphones.

 

If you're on a win based machine the Equalizer APO is a free tool you can DL. The profiles can be had for a very wide range of cans off of the AutoEQ site for free. This setup not being a big time pay-for product like Sound ID, etc, I was skeptical at first, but it really does work well, for me at least. The ease at which REW profiles can be made for the APO for my room speakers was a big draw for me as well. The best part about the APO is that it's stupid easy to get running. No big data package to install just a small GNU installer that drops the files in a folder and you're ready to go.

The only drawback I have heard about with the APO is that some lesser audio hardware drivers seem to not work well with it. That is the device I/O's don't apparently show up in as recognizable in APO. All my gear here is RME and I have not experienced any issues with any of the RME I/O's not showing up in the APO.

 

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