Focal Solo6 Be Studio Monitors

The Solo6's are nice speakers—costly—but their usefulness will depend upon your intended home application. If you are planning on connecting them to your Kemper, I can tell you that I have a pair of CMS 65's connected in stereo, and I have not been happy with their volume output. The Solo6's have slightly larger internal amps, but I don't think that their ultimate output will be significantly greater. On the other hand, if you intend to use them for mixing, either will do the job. The best advice is to find a reseller that will allow you to return whatever you do not find appropriate, because they will sound different in your home studio than they will in a store setup.

If you're not sure you could tell the difference between Yammy HS8s and Adam A7xs, I don't think it makes ANY sense buying THAT expensive a set of monitors.

Agreed Michael... unless he went Opal.

That way he'd have all the headroom, punch and mojo one could imagine, but without that unnecessary and ridiculous 40k response.

You, specist.
Dogs deserve great mixes, didn't you know that?

True.

Let's not forget bats too.

I have HS80s and a Atomic CLR. The HS80s are fine for home use, The HS8s are slightly better still. Unless you plan on doing extensive mixing professionally, I would not spend that kind of dough on the Focals, especially if your going to be making payments on them.

Your room will most likely muddy up your sound more than monitors would in any case, unless you spend the time and/or money to get it treated well.

One thing, though - somebody more knowledgeable than me should chime in here - the original Yamaha NS-10s were not FLAT monitors - they are often used as REFERENCE monitors (a lot of people get the wrong idea about these). So IF the HS8 etc are like a "remake" of the old golden NS10s, then they might not be what you want. But I don't know if that's the case.

The HS8s do not sound like NS-10s. The similarity ends at the white cone. HS8s are much more neutral but still not "flat". They sound really good for the price point and translate well. More money just buys you more detail for professional mixing. Definitely agree on the room treatment. A non treated room will make even the best monitors sound wrong.

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Your room will most likely muddy up your sound more than monitors would in any case, unless you spend the time and/or money to get it treated well.

One thing, though - somebody more knowledgeable than me should chime in here - the original Yamaha NS-10s were not FLAT monitors - they are often used as REFERENCE monitors (a lot of people get the wrong idea about these). So IF the HS8 etc are like a "remake" of the old golden NS10s, then they might not be what you want. But I don't know if that's the case.

LOL. In the 80's before I did any engineering myself I would always ask the engineers why they were using the awful sounding NS-10's. The two most common answers were "because everyone has them and I know what they sound like" and "because if the mix sounds good on THEM, it will sound good on ANYTHING". They were used more like Auratones and less like Tannoys or Urei's. They were for making music, not listening to it.

Exactly. well said.