Speakers for the bedroom .... Compact but with a decent kick???

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Speakers for the bedroom … Compact but with a decent kick???

Can anyone reccomend any?

I see some pics of eans where he is using what look like some seriousley small ones in quite a big room. Are they really worthy?

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i would go fot the jbl control speaker!
small, good sound, nice kick.

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This ^

I’ve got a pair of these that are my bedroom speakers … do a decent job.

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should someone have different speakers/monitors for djing/production?

greets

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are they powered to so no need for an amp?

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I went into alot of detail about this in another thread… I highly recomend a proper set of monitors for production, keeping your dj speakers seperate from what you produce on…

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I have some logitech x-530 speakers that actually sound nice. I got them for $10 at a thrift store, however.

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I also have two sets of JBL Control-1s. Great little speaker, produces sound much larger than you would imagine possible. Unpowered, so they require an amp - for example a Behringer A500.

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On JBL Control 1’s : I’ve looked up some info and some people recommend using a sub along with them. What are your thoughts on this ?

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why not just get a pair of 8 inch monitors? maybe used on Ebay to save a few bucks.

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Yes, a sub would add back the lows. Get a powered sub and split the signal before they go to the amps.

This is the joy of separates, you get options!

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I drive my JBL Control 1’s off an old Denon seperates system that has a 3.5mil jack to go to a powered sub.

Now I just need to find one (as yes, they’re lacking a little in the bottom end - though I’m sure my neighbours won’t mind)

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at the risk of many people getting their virtual torches and pitchforks out but - I really don’t get why everyone likes the control 1 speakers that much and I personally believe that there are tons of better options for production purposes.

Appart from the hazy and somewhat undifferentiated highs the designers compensated the small size of the speakers by tuning the reflex vent to a kick bass frequency (somewhere around 80->100hz). While that might sound nice and suggest more bass than is actually there it doesn’t really help to record a clean mix. If you don’t want to use them as monitors or just for practicing purposes they should be ok and not that expensive but if youre thinking about adding a sub anyway Ide go for something different.

just my two cents - I don’t mean to piss anyone off

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I like them because they’re cheap, easily available and not subject to price expansion due to some arbitrary cool factor. They just work. HOWEVER, like you said, they’re not studio monitors and do not have a flat, uncolored response.