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Are you releasing what you mix on them?
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
You can get a good sound with consumer hifi in your room because you can mix to the inherent characteristics of that speaker.
What mixers are looking for is neutrality and time-domain accuracy.
Most hifi monitors don't give this.
So when you take your 'good sounding mix' on your coloured hifi speakers to other systems they sound... unbalanced.
If you aren't mixing for release then it is less important- any port in a storm and such.
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
The analogy which I always use is that of an artist painting a picture in their studio. They require strong, natural, light in order to get the colours right. The painting may be viewed in all sorts of lighting conditions but at least it will start out as being ‘right’. By contrast if you were to try to paint in say the yellow light from a sodium street light you would most likely get the colours badly wrong. It may look ok in the room where you painted it but it would be shocking seen anywhere else.
When mixing this is the difference between good, neutral, monitors in an acoustically well treated room and a set of HiFi speakers in an untreated spare bedroom. You have to use what you have / what you can afford so the best method is to keep trying your mix on other systems and take notes. Also, a set of modest open backed headphones (I use AKG K702’s) can help, particularly with the bottom end.
It’s a pain but, sadly, there are no easy (cheap) fixes. The ‘correction’ software is improving but there is still a long way to go, if indeed we ever get there, to turn a bad system into a good one.
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Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
When you record and play live through hifi speakers, you will have a large variety of levels, and will have a far higher chance of blowing the speakers, as I have done in the past. if you overload hifi, the distortion of the top end can put huge energy into the bass/middle, and cook the voice coils in the bass/mid driver
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Ian
Lowering my expectations has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.
So, I personally wouldn't use a Hi-Fi system for music production alone, but certainly it's a part of the process. Use everything you have.
Ian
Lowering my expectations has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.
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Ian
Lowering my expectations has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.
Ian
Lowering my expectations has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
The higher end you go, the fewer differences there are.
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
Congrats @Octatonic. Up to today I had never heard of Kii Three. Having looked at a few online reviews, I can only be very impressed. Serious quality actives with onboard DSP for circa €10K.
The use of DSP has been floated about in Hi-Fi circles for the past fifteen or more years. Some company marketed a 'box' that went between the source and the amplification way back then. This used a microphone to listen to setup frequencies and adjusted the output to give a desired output and sound. For some reason it simply did not catch on. At the time I was interested but as no dealer had one to demo in my system, it did not happen.
Your speakers look great and I have no doubt, sound great. How does the DSP work in your room? Is the setup more or less as on the older system described above? Can you switch from treated to untreated sound easily? I presume the controls are on an iPad or Smartphone App.
Anyway, congrats on having the balls to spend what it took to get a good sound in your room. Enjoy and maybe sometime I might get to hear a pair in action....
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