Monitoring: Adam's A7's or Genelec 8030's?

[staylor]

I'm looking into buying some semi-affordable monitors. Should I go with Adam's or Genelec's? Your opinions would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks,

ST

[Smithcok]

I'm looking into buying some semi-affordable monitors. Should I go with Adam's or Genelec's? Your opinions would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks,

ST

What does your current setup look like?
What sort of room are you working in (treatment)?
What types of music do you normally do in your studio?

[staylor]

I'm putting together a small studio in my house to do rough mixes away from work (Basic EQ, Gating, Compression, etc...). The setup is a Mac Laptop and Digi 002 interface setup at the end of the room. Room dimensions are 15' long x 12' wide x 8' ceiling. Treatment is very minimal: (2) 4'x2' panels on each wall. I mix a lot of pop, blues, and jazz.

[Rad]

That's a hard choice, given that the room is untreated. I mean that you may purchase even multithousand$$$ monitors and still not get the right sound because of room acoustics, bass problems, etc. Most of those aren't really evident without special equipment either, because we're used to living in rooms (as opposed to anechoic chambers) and their acoustic response, in a way, sounds "natural" to the human ear...until you play your mix somewhere else, that is. My experience has been that, even in rooms created and measured by a professional acoustician, certain frequency problems in a mix may be very difficult to detect.

The Genelecs are very beautiful sounding. The Adams are mostly considered more accurate than beautiful-sounding, which means at times they can sound a bit fatiguing, but because of that perhaps more useful as a clinical measurement tool.

[Smithcok]

I'm putting together a small studio in my house to do rough mixes away from work (Basic EQ, Gating, Compression, etc...). The setup is a Mac Laptop and Digi 002 interface setup at the end of the room. Room dimensions are 15' long x 12' wide x 8' ceiling. Treatment is very minimal: (2) 4'x2' panels on each wall. I mix a lot of pop, blues, and jazz.

I would get some treatment up first.

I'd be a little partial to the A7's (but personally I am not a huge fan of smaller monitors, even though the genelecs sound great).

[staylor]

Thanks for the input. More treatment is definitely being added in the future. Right now, I'm Just trying to gather the main pieces of gear first. I don't plan on mixing down anything on this setup (at least right now). It'll be used as more of a general reference for stuff I bring home.

Thanks,

ST