Hi Andreas,

I listen to my A100 through a mono mixer amp combo with a 100 watts
of power. it is more like a powered wedge with stereo line
in,instrument in mic in with xlr , phone and rca jacks. It helps to
avoid blown stereo mix monitors, the wedge can a shit kicking.

I mix my music with Vecteur front ported monitors. they are
transparent across the whole range. No boxiness to them, which I find
with most music related speakers and not with quality hifi speakers.
also the imaging is vastly superior. I also like to mix at different
levels. Positioning of the speakers is crucial as well.

The lower the volume, the better. I use the mono wedge to gauge how
the mix responds to loudness, it also helps low frequency balance(not
for panning but the whole spectrum). most of the time if you layout
your channel frequencies properly at low volume and all your bass is
proper, it will translate well at louder volumes. Why do you see
Auratone speakers in big studios I wonder, also it saves your ears.
you only need a couple runs or passes at louder volumes to determine
if you did it right or sounds right the first time around. another
tip, treat channel eq's with respect, it helps keep the headroom in
check,unless you are really going for that deconstructive sound( I
prefer waveshaping and filtering before the channel eq ).

another useful item is decoupling your speakers. I know a lot people
call it hog wash but it really helps. if anyone wants to try an
inexpensive way to decouple them, go to the hardware store and buy
1/2" MDF board, cut them 1" more than the perimeter of your speaker.
do some blind testing with a friend and see if you can spot which is
no MDF and which is with MDF. you will be surprised at which you like
better. Once you hear the difference, there dozens of other more
expensive decoupling systems out there that could improve your mixing
and playback speakers.

These opinions are not the holy grail of mixing, they are culled from
years of listening to music and lots of experimenting. It's great to
hear what other people have to say about the subject.

Regards,
RM





--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , "Andreas Lindholm"
<andreas.k.lindholm@t...> wrote:

> After many years of striving to get the most neutral possible sound

for

> audioning my music, both my own and others it just struck me. What

the fuck

> am I doing I know that certain speakers colors the sound i certain

ways and

> so on, but in the end of the day I still try to mix my own stuff to

sound i

> a special crunchy, bassrich and smooth style. So I know that I

could easily

> just go out and pick up a set that would make almost everything

sound good

> to me, but I don't ;)
>
> So now I am qurious about you guys, what PA, phones, etc do you use

to

> monitor you A100 and other gear and what is your philosophy