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Did anyone tested the KRK ROKIT 6 or the 8 model?´They seem to be pretty good ! What do you guys think about it???
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my friend has them and says there very nice he uses all nice gear ddrum premier gibson roland etc...
Hardrocker, at the music only studio that I work at the owner just got a pair of the powered 8" Rokits. At first, neither of us liked them. They seemed to be very dull and un-true. We tried them on a few sessions and thought we were pushing too much high end to compensate for the way the monitors sounded. So he took them out and put them back in the boxes. He was ready to return them until I convinced him to try them one more time. I was very concerned because I had only heard great things about these monitors, and was basically dumbfounded at how they sounded dull and muffled. SO we hooked them back up, and listened to some final mixes that we had laying around on them. Now these final mixes were down with ADAM p22a, Genelec 1031a, and Mackie HR824a monitors, so they are "perfect". When we started listening to all these projects through the KRK's we were like..."wow, they sound great..." and it turns out they are very similar to the Mackie HR824a's- at a much lower price tag. The only complaint was the limitations on the settings on the back for the high end boost/cut, there's only -1, 0, and +1 (maybe a +2 as well but I don't remember right now) for fine tuning to the room. Whereas the other monitors we were using for tracking only had all the way from -3 to +4.
The reason we didn't like them, is because we were using them to track. These are really mixing monitors. We use seperate sets of monitors to track with. Alesis M1 MKII's, Samson Resolv85a, and some Yamahas that look like PC speakers (?). We use those for tracking because we can abuse them and not be afraid of the cost to replace them if they go out. Then we switch to the nice ones to mix at lower volumes n stuff.
In summary, the KRK Rokit8a monitors are a steal at the price they are at. You get one pair for LESS than ONE Mackie HR824a and you get the same response and quality, in my opinion anyway.
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The reason we didn't like them, is because we were using them to track. These are really mixing monitors. We use seperate sets of monitors to track with. Alesis M1 MKII's, Samson Resolv85a, and some Yamahas that look like PC speakers (?). We use those for tracking because we can abuse them and not be afraid of the cost to replace them if they go out. Then we switch to the nice ones to mix at lower volumes n stuff.
In summary, the KRK Rokit8a monitors are a steal at the price they are at. You get one pair for LESS than ONE Mackie HR824a and you get the same response and quality, in my opinion anyway.
~006
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