genericperson wrote on Wed, 25 August 2004 21:59 |
You have me sold on the Lipinski's by the way. As soon as I save up the $$ they are going to the top of the audition-with-intent-to-buy pile.
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As long as it's not for nearfield use, I would love to hear your opinion.
After making some tries, it seems the general concensus is that the Lipinskis would make very poor candidates for near fields in a mixing console situation because of the difficulty of where to put the subwoofers. And they don't go down low enough to work well without subs.
Subs under the console usually sound so disjointed that you can't really get good work done. My best experiences with near fields in a mix situation have been with HD1s or Dynaudio BM15As, both of which are "full-range" loudspeakers that extend down to near 40 Hz. Neither one can hold a candle to the Lipinskis as far as coherence, accuracy, transparency, lack of diffraction, imaging, and lack of compression. But for nearfield you really need a single "reasonably coherent, wide range source" in my opinion.
So far I can only recommend the Lipinskis either for a 5.1 situation where you know where you can put the sub(s), or a midfield or far field mastering situation where the subs can be located within the listening triangle and with no interfering objects (livingroom-like situation).
BK