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As long as they have some kind or return policy like a 3- day or 7-day return or something like that, you risk nothing trying them out. If they are unreturnable, I wouldn't buy them anyway.I have a pair of '99 824s that I have been using almost daily since I bought them new going on 9 years ago, and they work great for me.
Considering I paid somewhere around $1400 for the pair new, $400/pr looks like a pretty good deal to me,.if. they are in decent condition.It's funny, 824s are a real inkblot test for people. Some people (like me) love 'em, some people hate 'em.
Very few seem to be in the middle. But what it comes down to is where they work in your room OK and you can translate them without breaking too much of a sweat. The first half of that equation is up to your room. The second half is up to the ears you were born with.For me, my ears took to the 824s in my room like a fish to water, and, except for a couple of early tweaks, translation came very easy for me.
Other people find them too 'hyped' sounding (amazing, when one looks at the response curves and finds them just as flat overall as anything else in that product range), and blame them for their mixes sounding weak when they take them out into the real world.The only solution and answer is to find out of they'll work for you, and the only way to do that is to try them out at your desk, and the only way to do that is to make sure you have an honorable return policy from your dealer.G. Agree with everything you say. A lot of damn articles on these!!its like their the 'standard' everyone compared too.HR824 vs yes, I'm reading. I'm attracted to the design and unique electronics. They put a lot under the hood, really interesting design and passive, no port.I think Mackie may have done what Shure did in Mexico and kept their product in tact through the China work by having them do assembly only.
Not many breakdown posts seen and I been readiong for a few hours.(good)I'd heard there was several returns on the recent China stuff, so I'm concerned on that, per a GC salesman. But these demos are US made and don't state Made in China, so thats strange too? How could demo's be around that long?.oh well.no big deal, just gear addiction flaring up. You can check the manufacture date on those demos pretty easy. There is a manufacture date code printed on the back of the amp on the back of each monitor, right next to the serial number. Here's how the code supposedly breaks down, per the Mackie forum:n - DecadeM - Factory Code M8, M1, etcn - Factory code 2nd digitn - Yearn - Month 1st digitn - Month 2nd digitFor example, my monitors are coded as9M1811which would mean that they were manufactured in Nov, 1998 at wherever factory M1 is located. Which sounds about right, considering I got mine delivered somehwere in the middle of 99.As far as that Chinese/defective line, that is a favorite scare tactic of GC salespeople to steer folks to something where they can make more money.
In this case that salesperson was probably an idiot to steer you away because there is probably a manager's spiff (i.e. Cash kickback to the salesperson) on those demos as an incentive to get them off the shelf and the hell out of the store's inventory.The.real. partial story is that somehwere around 2003, if I got my facts straight, Mackie was bought up bu a company called Loud Technologies.
One of the things that happened sometime around that same time was that Mackie moved much of their assembly processes to China.Look at it this way, if those demos are anything more than a year old and they still work OK, then I wouldn't worry about that hullaballo too much; I'd say if they've already outlived their warranty, that they're probably not defective.G. I think I would even take NS-10s over them.No need for the 'respect' line, Tom. It's normal and natural for folks to disagree on this part of the equation.
See, for my room and my ears, NS-10s are good for paperweights or fireplace kindling and not much else. I can mix with them OK.if I want a headache after 10 minutes and to be in a belltower with a high powered rifle after an hour.That doesn't make me right and you wrong, or vice versa. It just means that you should not mix with 824s anymore than I housl mix with NS-10s. We also should not wear shoes of the wrong size for our feet.I like KRKs also, but I can tell you that I have heard KRK 8s in a friend's CR that don't sound signfigantly different from the way my 824s sound in mine. Yeah, we can hear a difference, of course.
But it's not a great one, an uncomfortable one, an unmanageable one or an untranslatable one.With even morel respect, Tom, I think that any recommendation one way or the other by anybody on any model that is at least on the radar screen is meaningless. I sold these kind of things things in a showroom for several years, and there is no way to possibly predict what any one person is or is not going to like or be able to translate. I'd have one guy with expereince and respect come in and love the Shatner2000 and hate the Zippy500, followed by a guy with equal expereince and respect who thought just the opposite. This happened every day. I simply learned to show them how to use the switchboard and leave them alone in the comp room and let them decide for themselves, because whether any 'conventional wisdom' I may have had or personal opinion I may have even had, was a crapshoot as to whether it would wind up serving the customer well or totally steer him wrong.It really is an individual decision based upon ones own ears and sensitivities. Monitors are perhaps unique from any other part of the signal chain (I'm including headphones here) in that regard, because they are the only device in the chain that is actually.making sound.
and are the only device that are coupled to one's ears.Look, it's worth a $400 marker to borrow them in an in home demo for a few days. If they don't work for CC, he can return them and have an excellent education in how these things work in real life.G.Last edited by SouthSIDE Glen; at 21:19. I'm probably going to get spanked hard for saying this (and I don't mean in a good way ), but.It seems there are a whole lot of people in this business who hate the 824 them becuase one is 'supposed to' hate them.
If you're really k3wl and in-the-know, it is of course common knowledge that the HR824 is supposed to be the red-headed stepchild of monitors, and looked down upon, even if you have never actually listened to them in person. 'Mackie, why I'm too good for those. And then they tend to recommend something from ADAM or Tannoy or Dynaudio that of course are much better, but also, as they usually don't mention, cost 2-3 times as much.I'm not absolutely sure why the 824 got such a reputation - I can tell you it's not because it's because they actually sound so goddamned awful. One may not care for their particular flavor of sound, and that's fine, but it's not that they are so freakin' radical from everything else made that they deserve the singled-out reputation they get amongst gear sluts. There are a dozen much worse sounding and harder to translate nearfields out there, including (IMHO) half of the Wharfdale line, M-Audio's BX-series, and of course the infamous NS-10. There are a couple of models of Genlecs that haven't earned their nameplates, IMHO, because they suck compared to their quality brothers and even compared to the 824.Yet it's the 824, almost singularly, that has been the target of ire amongst the gear-o-philes. I'm not sure, but I think it's partly because it came along 10 years ago as the anti-NS-10; it is so unlike the piece of shit NS-10 in sound that those used to the NS-10 just couldn't relate.
And because most of those in that position were old-timers in the business, others tend to just buy into their opinions, and help shore up the myth of the 'awful 824'.Sure, next to the Rocky Mountain response curve of the NS10, the Mackies will sound 'hyped'. Those who claim to want 'flat' and 'uncolored' response should really look twice at the various response curves for the Mackie and it's nearest competitors. People don't want flat, they want something that sounds like cassette tape without the hiss. They just don't realize it yet.G.
I guess it comes down to what you are looking for in a monitor. Listening for pleasure versus working in audio production are often two separate functions.NS-10s, while not my choice for listening to music for pleasure, do tend to translate well on other speaker systems. They make bad things sound worse.
They tend to exagerate the upper mids and as a result those that mix on them tend to reduce the more fatiguing frequencies of a mix. They suck for judging bottom end though.OTOH in my opinion Mackies seem to hype bottom and top, but don't represent mids in a way that I feel translate well to the outside world. If I had to choose between listening to NS-10s or Mackies for pleasure, I would likely choose the Mackies over NS-10s though.The next most important part of your chain after your ears is your monitoring system. If Auratones work for you, use them, if Mackie works use them, just don't make price the overiding priority. Save up for what is going to work best for you. If what you are hearing is skewing your decisions as an engineer it's wasting your time as well as money.Last edited by masteringhouse; at 05:43.
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