Hi Andreas

> 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

I use either Yamaha MSP6 (active Speakers) or a Sennheiser Headphone HD
580-1 on with an Ashley 2x60 W sine amp. The Yamahas are fine for close
monitoring. The distance ear-monitor is around 120 cm). Also my room is
basically symmetrical, but in details it is quite unregular(right word ),
with small alcovens and niches, so I do not have annoying resonances.

For crating sounds I find it useful to hear over headphones. The headphone
also keeps the peace with my girlfirend... ;-)


As desk I have a large Yamaha 2408 with a lot of outboard. For live I
recently bought an old DMP7 digital mixer.

But to my experience the _real_ neccesary thing is a long time experience
in listening over your only one Monitoring system. Hear everything you like
and also everything you don't like over your only one monitor. It does not
matter whether you hear loud or not whether it costs thousands or some ten
bucks: the only thing that matters, is, that _you_ can differ good from bad
on _your_ monitors.

Florian