Best monitors for around $100?

[AMT]

Right now all I have are some headphones, and I'd like to get a pair of monitors for both listening in general and for working on music. Any suggestions for some halfway decent ones around $100 for the pair? I know that's kind of low, but with that kind of budget, what's the best I can do?

[zircon]

I really don't think there's anything really good in that range. It's the equivalent of buying $20 headphones. Don't rely on them for really accurate work, but they're nice as a reference or casual listening. Assuming you don't just want to get a nicer pair of, say, Altec Lansing speakers w/ a sub...

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/VLS21/

This might be your best option.

[AMT]

Dang, not even something like either of these?

http://www.zzounds.com/item--BEHMS20

http://www.zzounds.com/item--EDIMA7A

Or maybe bumping the price up a tiny bit for these:

http://www.zzounds.com/item--BEHMS40

[Kanthos]

Those will be cheap, but not particularly accurate, particularly in the bass. You simply can't get accurate bass on a speaker that small.

[SnappleMan]

A general rule is that you want to stay away from anything that has "Bass Enhancer" as one of the features. You're best off mixing on the most flat set of speakers you can find. And you need at least a 5" woofer to get somewhat accurate bass response, preferably 6" or 8".

Stick with headphones till you can afford something like KRK Rokits.

[dannthr]

I wouldn't even waste $100 on monitors unless I was spending around a grand. These headphones have a detailed, flat response, and are fairly common studio ware. They'll run you about $99, and they're worth every penny.

[Fray]

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan07/articles/mixingheadphones.htm

Is a pretty good article about mixing on headphones. It should probably be online for free in a month or so.

And I agree, if you're in the $100 range, you can either get good headphones or crappy monitors. Go for the good headphones.

[SnappleMan]

I wouldn't even waste $100 on monitors unless I was spending around a grand. These headphones have a detailed, flat response, and are fairly common studio ware. They'll run you about $99, and they're worth every penny.

$1000? That's totally unnecessary for an amateur home studio. There are many excellent options for $400-$600/pair. Too bad KRK discontinued their V series, those were incredible.

[Jens Wulvik]

$1000? That's totally unnecessary for an amateur home studio. There are many excellent options for $400-$600/pair. Too bad KRK discontinued their V series, those were incredible.

Are you seing double or something?? It says 100=p

[jmr]

Are you seing double or something?? It says 100=p

No, it says $1000 (a grand).

I wouldn't even waste $100 on monitors unless I was spending around a grand.

So, if he's seeing double, you can't be seeing at all.

[SnappleMan]

Are you seing double or something?? It says 100=p

Learn to read, also, 100 does NOT equal p.

[Fray]

Are you seing double or something?? It says 100=p

If he was seeing double it would have been 110000. Or maybe 101000, if the double images were aligned just right...

[Jens Wulvik]

No, it says $1000 (a grand).

So, if he's seeing double, you can't be seeing at all.

Maybe.....who cares

[Nicholestien]

I've listened to so many monitors now. And in my amature opinon, though, I swear to you it's the truth, the only cheap monitors that I've seen work really good are krkrp5's, I havn't heard any monitors that are better than it untill you start hitting the $500-600 dollar range. and when you start hitting that price range is when you start considering room treatment so just stick with the rp5's untill you can afford anything that will be an equal improvement which is 1000$ monitors and room treatment, don't be redudant about things like monitors because they will waste your wallet fast!

[SnappleMan]

If you can afford the RP6 RP8, get those instead of the RP5s. I use RP5s, and while they're great, the 6 and 8 models have more accurate bass response.

[dannthr]

This is what I want:

It all depends on what kind of projects you're working on.