Turtlerock Forum

Hi all,

need to upgrade our main speakers. We have $5k. Would prefer powered but performance / on budget is a bigger concern.

Love to hear your thoughts.

I have the opals, they're are pretty good but require a decent size room to get the full results out of them.

+1
Opals are really great - they are also amazing for electronic music: they get down there without a sub.
And Rode have excellent/fast customer support if you need it.

The Tasmanian wrote:+1
Opals are really great - they are also amazing for electronic music: they get down there without a sub.
And Rode have excellent/fast customer support if you need it.

yep..

Ive been asked where the sub is in my room, when I say I dont have one, I see jaws hit the floor...

Need a biggish room to translate well though

more a mid field monitor IMHO

Mid fields are fine – have had grover notting's recommended as well.

I got a pair of Rokit 10-3s (3 way) and a pair of Rokit 12s subs for around $3K and they're surprisingly good for the $s - worth a listen.

fwiw I originally got the KRKs to be studio monitors (as I had already some v nice ctrl room monitors) but found that my mixes were translating better to the real world using the KRKs so they swapped roles.

Missing my Opals.
Highly recommended...

Hi, you could do what I did. Buy a pair of these http://www.greatplainsaudio.com/downloa ... 8H_III.pdf
and build these to house them http://www.manualslib.com/manual/365692 ... -Plan.html
After run in, these are wonderful monitors. All up cost was around $4k. Take $1k off that if you can build the cabs yourself.
If you have a big enough room, you will not find a better, deeper, more accurate reproduction at any sane price.
Cheers,
Paul

Thanks Paul,

if I was doing this just for myself that looks really interesting. But it's for work and we're in an unusual position of having more cash than I have time right now.

Dave

Hi Dave, yeah, it's not an off the shelf solution, but if you had time and space, it's a damn good one!
I think there is actually someone in Sydney now making complete speakers with these components, maybe they have some ready to go! Can't find them at the mo....
Cheers, Paul

I picked up a pair of Neumann KH310A's for a tad under $5K and they're beyond excellent. Well worth an audition.

http://www.neumann-kh-line.com/neumann-kh/home_en.nsf/root/prof-monitoring_studio-monitors_nearfield-monitors_KH310A

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/oct13/articles/neuman-kh310a.htm