[News] JBL Pro K2 S9900

Citation : J'ai jamais vu un studio qui utilisait un système d'écoute Hi-Fi à la place de monitoring

Citation : Il y a déjà Abbey Road studio à Londres...

Citation : Les enceintes de Hi-Fi sont toujours "typées", avec certaines bosses prononcées et voulut par le constructeur.

Citation : les JBL Pro K2 S9900 pourraient t'elles convenir à une utilisation monitoring

Citation : Le but des enceintes hi-fi n'est pas le même, et tu risques d'avoir un mix qui sonnera sur tes enceintes hi-fi et nulle part ailleurs.

Tu risques de plus de les endommager assez vite (au niveau du tweeter) car la dynamique qui sort d'une table de mix en studio est souvent supérieure à ce qui sort d'un CD.

Citation : So have any of these two sets of measurements revealed a fundamental difference between 'pro' and 'hi-fi' speaker types? Well, the 'pro' Dynaudio, thanks probably to its voice-coil construction, is best suited to being driven hard, and it has a well-controlled and appropriately balanced frequency response. The 'pro' KRK, through its higher sensitivity and reasonable compression performance, is also more suited to operation at high levels than either the B&W or the Wharfedale. So maybe there's a glimpse of a distinction here. But then the KRK is, in my opinion, let down by the questionable frequency-response characteristics I noted last month. The Wharfedale is pretty similar to the KRK in terms of its thermal-compression performance, but loses out through being around 3dB less sensitive. Its frequency response isn't really the stuff of a nearfield monitor either. Lastly, the B&W is not so good at elevated levels, but its exceptional frequency response performance still argues pretty strongly in its favour. In truth, there are a range of abilities across the four different designs, and it'd be a brave man to say that any group of two is obviously inappropriate.

If pressed to rank the four speakers for nearfield duties in, say, a small project studio handling a wide variety of material, I'd go for the Dynaudio first -- if I had the cash. But if I knew that really high-level monitoring was going to be a rare occurrence, I'd plump for a hi-fi speaker, the B&W, on the grounds of its response accuracy -- and I'd maybe put my savings towards a microphone. In the right environment, with the right type of material, any of these four speakers could be used successfully -- countless wonderful recordings have been made using monitors worse than anything here. So, can you use hi-fi speakers as nearfield monitors? Well, as I wrote at the start of this article, it depends...