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Other alternatives you can look at are obviously the Yamaha HS's. If it's a small room the HS7's would be more than adequate but might be worth looking at the HS5's with a sub. If you're going to be up against a wall, well worth looking at the KRK VXT's. They are front ported so you won't get ay reflections off the wall.
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how big is your room and how far will you be from them when sat at your desk
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My iMac is housed between two wsrdrobes in a cut out. So, the speakers will effectevly be close to a ‘wall’, so need to be small.
My seated positin would be about 1m from em...
Any links to ‘decent’ leads ?
Really appreciate all the advice folks
In a cut out like that I would certainly recommend smaller woofers, like the A3X, or the KRK VXT4 and front facing ports. For £600 it's pretty difficult to go wrong, you get into the decent mid-range level at that point.
Finally, buy some treatment to line the wall behind your iMac if you can. The more dampening you can put in that cut out, the better.
As for leads - any decent XLR mic lead will work, or decent 1/4" jack lead - depending on your interface and the available connections on your chosen monitor. I have an XLR to Jack cable for my monitors, and it sounds great.
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I'd strongly recommend rearranging things if you want to do any sort of critical mixing.
This is not a bad guide: http://arqen.com/acoustics-101/room-setup-speaker-placement/
R.
Eqd Speaker Cranker clone
Monte Allums TR-2 Plus mod kit
Trading feedback: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/60602/
Most of the good usual suspects have been mentioned above. I've always liked Adam, Genelec, Mackie all excellent. Depending on your exact space the wardrobes might create an extended bass sound so might want to err on the small more focused (less bottom end) speakers, probably front ported. As said above the addition of a sub can make it easier to dial in and control the bass when not in a perfect situation.
Personally I've used the Adam A7X in the past as a portable (ish,) rig and they always seem to work well in most spaces (small to medium) and can be had for a decent price.
Eqd Speaker Cranker clone
Monte Allums TR-2 Plus mod kit
Trading feedback: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/60602/
I'll be using them more for playback, rather than critical mixing.
The plan is to implement the iMac and Akai MPC Live into one 'rig'...
The Genelec 8010 are a lovely size, as space is critical, and the forward facing ported KRKs seem to make sense I guess...