Yo chaps, so for my budget I have a choice between the KRK Rokit 6’s (http://www.krksys.com/product_rokit.php) or the Samson Resolv A6’s http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodID=1964&brandID=2). Anyone have any idea which ones i should go for? I t looks like the samsons have better frequency response, but i have heard only good things from the KRK’s…
Don’t have experience with either, but maybe you should go to a shop where they sell them and listen to them first before buying them off internet recommendations solely? Take a few cd’s with you of music that you know by heart and listen closely.
What do you need them for? Monitoring for mixing? I heard that the KRKs colour the sound quite a bit. I listened to the Rokit 5 and they sound very “nice”. I am also looking for monitors right now and as far as my research went, I understood that “nice” is not what one should be looking for in a monitor speaker. I also listened to the Yamaha HS50M and they sounded terrible, but apparently this is just me not being used to a linear speaker, since they are supposed to be very linear and non-colouring speakers.
I probably have listened to the Samson as well at some point, but at least they did not sound distinct enough to me to be remembered it seems.
hey,
i had the samson rubicon series, it’s older then the resolve’s but imo has better tweeters. perhaps you can still get these for a good price. krk’s in the same price range sounded boxy to me
i have heard the older samsons with the ribbon tweater and they where surprisingly good for the low price with revealing details in your mix.
i am quite fond of the krk rp’s as working monitors in home-studio’s they tend to have a bit ruff character to their sound which ones you know them will reveal mixing problems quite easily. the thing with monitor-speakers is that they have to be as honoust and unflattering to the sound so when you have mixed it exaclty right the track will come to life BUT… this is a quality that you get once you choose more expensive models like genelec / dynaudio monitors which cost you like 400 to 800 (and up) euro per speaker!
there is also another breed of not so perfectly flat monitors but who do reveal also a lot of detail but you just need to get a bit used to the sound. and within that region there are a lot of brands and model to choose from. KRK is definatly a good choice then in my honoust opinion! which will cost you 400 euro for a set!
Cool, thanks guys 
Yup I’m looking for some decent “flat” studio monitors, that won’t colour the sound much… I guess it’s a bit of a paradox, if i wanted to test them with cd’s, then the speakers that the music sounds better on would probably colour the music too much, or would it mean that they are of better quality?
Rockit Power of coz…
Samson is low quality . Not a Monitor Company!!!
KRK is Standard in America… and good quality
http://www.thomann.de/se/krk_rp6_rokit_g2_fr.htm i have a pair of those.
i like them but i’m not good enough to tell you whether they colour the sound much or not, unfortunately. also, my apt is way to undampened to really judge them.
I have the Rokit 8", and they are quite wonderful at expressing what happens when you play your music on a PA, but less so with a hi-fi home listening environment
I was doubting to buy a set of Adam A7X until i found out the price was per piece and not per set… 
I settled for an Alesis M1 MK2 set. It is tenfold better than my creative surround set.
I only abuse the subwoofer from it to compromise the lack of lows on the monitors. (The multiband send does its job pretty neat here).
Frequency response doesn’t tell everything though, the crossover quality is as much if not more important.
i recommend http://www.amazon.com/RCA-RS2656-Changer-BookShelf-System/dp/B0009FUANS They work great for mixing and monitoring.
and with the money you save, donate it to people who loss their luck to hiv/aids or deaf research, or any charitable cause really. Also you need a good pair of studio headphones.
krk go go go 
As I said, it seems they to colour the sound. I am not sure if this is what one is looking for in a monitor. Opinions on this seem to go in both directions. This whole topic is very confusing (which is basically why I still did not buy any monitors ).
aint we all 
it’s tricky not to indeed get caught by the great sound it produces listening to music. that’s why you need to bring a couple of different tracks to listen to. you need a couple of normal tracks with specific characteristics in it’s stereo-field / detailed sounds and wether or not you can hear those specific characteristics on the different monitors. another one track you need is a track which is mixed VERY well in your ears… and also a track that has specific faults in it’s mixdown or is just not good at all in the mix. listen to which set reveals WHAT is not right in the mix.
a good set of monitors let’s you hear what is wrong with the mix/balance/stereo etc
if you can pick out the errors or the things that were done right in the different tracks you have found your set of monitor speakers!
krk
The older Adam A7, available for 349,- per piece. Gives everything else in that price range a run for their money.
another vote for the “old” Adam A7 (without the “X”). I never heard the “X” one so i cannot say anything about it.
When i bought the Adams i also had a pair of Yamaha HS80M’s here which a friend of mine bought at the same time.
A-B comparison totally convinced me that i made the right choice, since the yamaha’s sounded pretty dull and narrow - less transparent when compared to the adams.
and that doesn’t mean the yamahas sounded particularily bad, they just didn’t manage to play in the same ballpark as the adams.
i think you wouldn’t regret going for them if your budget allows it.
http://www.thomann.de/de/adam_a7.htm
359,- EUR per piece.
ps. at 46hz and below the A7s start to become a bit “weak” for some people. this is of course physically owed to the rather compact size/scale of the 6.5" woofer.
for having a better idea about what’s going on in the subs, you can always buy something like this after a while, like i did:
http://www.thomann.d…/adam_sub10.htm
just been digging around a bit concerning this topic because i was curious about reviews on the new A7X.
whilst doing so, i think i found something really interesting considering your aimed budget:
http://www.thomann.de/de/behringer_b3030a_truth.htm
these speakers are “said” to be “almost” equal to the performance of an adam a7, which is more than twice the price.
for reference: http://www.gearslutz.com/board/low-end-theory/529417-adam-a5x-vs-adam-a7-vs-adam-a7x.html
(start reading from post #10 in this thread)
related:
http://forum.recordingreview.com/f66/behringer-b3031a-speakers-25337/index2.html#post174682
i have behringer truth monitors at this moment but i wouldn’t really recommend them… they sound so saturated that it is hard to pinpoint problem area’s in the mix… they are great for just producing but if you want to get down to the nitty gritty then they do fall short imho.
the user reviews are not related to the entire behringer truth series. it’s all about the B3030A - do you have that exact model? (2" velocity ribbon transducer)