Perfect for Post Production 
by Bob Davis from Reno, NV USA, April 2008
Music Background:  Network Televison Production, Multi Emmy Award Winner

What a great speaker. For years I've used Genelec's and decided to give these a try. Wow you can't beat them. Smooth highs, great seperation, easy to configure and balance to the room. I've got them configured for 5.1 surround in a video edit suite running through an Appogee Ensemble...sweet. The size is perfect for the job and for the price, nothing can compare.

  Not better thatn JBL LSR's 
by Big L , February 2007
Music Background:  Engineer

These monitors are great, but they don't beat JBL LSR! With JBL's you can calibrate it to your room so what you hear is perfection. Sweetwater themselves said it's "Sumpremely accurate"! What other monitors anyone knows that has that title, at that price range? no one! but these are a good pair

  Wow, Stop Shopping Around! 
by EJL from Coachella Valley, CA, January 2007
Music Background:  Live Sound, Home Studio Recording, Mixing and Mastering

I'm one of those crazy people that always tries to top themselves and gets swallowed up by second guesses. I first got these and thought they were ridiculously good. Then, I thought, "Well, the JBL LSR series got monitor of the year and all these reviews so they must be better". WRONG! In my and many other experienced engineers opinion, the JBLs straight out suck! The clarity of the upper mids and highs feel muffled and the RMC feature is just like dropping the LF switch a couple dBs on the back of most monitors. You don't have to be a pro, your ear can do the same job if not better than the RMC. These Dyn's are handmade in Denmark of super premium materials, they're powerful, high SPLs, and look bad-***! I usually don't take the time to write reviews, but I want to help prevent people from always believing the hype that we get sucked into. Lates

  Petite and Sweet 
by Morgen Sharp from Ojai, CA USA, January 2007
Music Background:  Recording Engineer, Rocker

I've owned these speakers for about six months. My impression is not only one of value, but that these speakers are suited to most anyone's pro mixing needs...unless perhaps they're in a sub-frequency oriented genre..like hip-hop.

Most impressive is the stereo imaging and separation.
Most important is that these speakers do not flatter your mix! Nothing is worse than a client or yourself taking a mix home only to feel total dissappoint and return with the feeling..."well it sounded great in the studio..what happened?"

Trus these speakers. Dynaudio was smart to shoot for this price range with these smaller speakers. They knock everything else in this economy out of the water...and easily contend with much more expensive speakers like the adams.

  The best project studio monitors you can buy. 
by Nathan Schafer from Milwaukee, WI, October 2006
Music Background:  Composer, Songwriter

These monitors have great clarity through the entire frequency spectrum. The first thing I noticed when I listened to them was how they separated everything in the mix perfectly. They are small and can fit in the tiniest of rooms and have a set of controls to adjust the lows mids and highs, great for changing the monitors to fit your room.

  Great Value 
by Ernest Buckley from NYC, June 2006
Music Background:  Singer-Songwriter-Producer

We just finished mastering my first album where our mastering engineer was using these little guys. I was impressed with the all around sound, solid and tight low end. The high end was clear and anything but harsh.
In this price range, these may be the best. I`m considering selling my Mackies to get these.

Impressive and a great value 
by Dave T from WA, January 2006

upgraded to BM5A from a Behringer Truth 2031A (the Truth's were$299/pr, fit my budget/got me started/harsh in the upper mids/not well defined lower frequencies).

My room is 7.5'x10.5 (and no, it's not a jail cell) and treated with an Auralex Roominater 2 kit, the standing waves seem to be well controlled so the room doesn't add as much low frequency as it did without the LERNDS. The monitors are placed 38 " apart and my listening distance is 36 to 40". Position is dead centerwith the tweeters just below ear height.
the monitors are 1 foot from corners and 8" from the wall. They are decoupled with Auralex Mopads. I did cut the LF filter -2dB but have MF/HF flat. Sensitivity set at +4.

I'm really impressed with the BM5A's:
1)they're small, but their sound isn't. It will suprise you
2)The definition of the highs and lows is amazing.
3)The low frequencies sound tight and again well defined.
4)They sound great at lower levels which I like ( 50 to 70 dB.) The sound quality seems to be the same at 50 to 85 dB.
5) At 85 dB they're great and don't wear your ear and brain out.
6)Cranked a tune to 110 dB, still good maybe pushing the high mids end a wee little. Bass is still tight.
7)They seem to be precise and hide nothing. On tracks of mine that I've heard ad nauseum (and know like the walls of this jail cell I'm in), I heard all sorts of mic pops, fret noise, a hum, and generally a bunch of stuff I now have to re-edit because I never heard them before, even with cans on.
Mistakes and triumphs of my EQ'ing were evident.
8)It's a no brainer mixing on these, what you hear IS what you get, seriously. My mixes hold up from the car to a boom box to a home theater to a laptop to an mp3 player with earbuds, to the typical home "stereo" that the average person owns.

If you have a home studio and $1000 you can'tgo wrong with these. If you have $700, save $300 more and buy 'em. Treat your room too, with at least foam squares at ear level inyour listeningposition, behind the monitors, beside you and the walls where the monitors reflector point towards. Then kick those standing waves fat aS*es with 2 LERNDS in each corner. Doing that and buying these moniturs will improveyour mixes significantly.

I'm guessing pro's wouldn't turn these down either.
I ordered a pair of Mackie HR824 to audition against these. The BM5A's are tighter sounding all the way around and cheaper! To me the Mackie's were right in between my old Behringer's and the BM5A's in terms of sound quality. The Makcies are going back.

I am truly impressed with these monitors and very happy with my purchase from Sweetwater. I hope this review was helpful for ya.

Just What the Doctor Ordered 
by Bill G. from Atlanta, Georgia, December 2005

I needed to upgrade my monitors and had several bullets on the wishlist:

1) Better bass response (my rock/pop mixes were all over the place using my old Yamaha's)
2) Easy on the ears (I have tinnitus)
3) Good detail - nothing gets lost in the mix
4) Aesthetically pleasing to listen to

Art Hill at Sweetwater pointed me to these and they excelled in every respect. Don't buy until you've heard these, even if they're a bit above your budget, because they're certainly worth it.

Dynaudio BM5A 
by Todd R from TX USA, April 2005

what an amazing sound from a small enclosure, I did a shootout with Mackie HR824, and these were less harsh on the ears, no fatigue, as a matter of fact the mackies high end is so harsh sometimes that I sold them and bought these, I had M-Audio BX8's to compare too and my god these dynaudios were like a diamond and the bx8 was a cubic zarkonia, you will see why they are a grand a pr when you mix on them, perfect speakers, they even make thier own drivers in Denmark, no made in china here folks!
They are honestly up there with Genelecs and adam's. nuff said time to go mix!

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