Happy New Monitors Day!

[Help!I'maRock!]

i ended up buying the Alesis M1 Active 520 USB monitors, along with a USB hub and music stand light. got them all from Amazon and they came today.

the 520s are a bit boomy out of the box, but sound better than my M-Audio speakers ever did, and supposedly they need about 40 hours of burn in time. so no worries there. setup couldn't have been easier, and Alesis even provided the inter-speaker XLR cable. so initial impressions are good.

now to break out some Varese and burn these fuckers in.

 

[Mark Wein]

I need to place ALL of my monitors.

 

[mosiddiqi]

I need to replace mine too

 

[Peeker]

so they just plug into the USB on yer 'puter?
not the sound card?

I haz a confoozed

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

so they just plug into the USB on yer 'puter?
not the sound card?

I haz a confoozed

yes, they just plug into the USB port. i have an Mac. so i plugged it in, changed the output to the speakers in Sound Preferences, and they worked.

 

[paulskirocks]

OK, so these only have a USB audio in, no analog?

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

OK, so these only have a USB audio in, no analog?

they have analog connections too, but connecting the USB to my laptop is easier (and likely the better connection) than running through the headphone jack.

 

[jaxn slim]

 

[Kerouac]

Burning things is always fun!

Wait...

Burn them IN?


The neighbors are going to love that!


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- Sent from my iPhone at a Tijuana donkey show.

 

[ken]

they have analog connections too, but connecting the USB to my laptop is easier (and likely the better connection) than running through the headphone jack.

Yes, and chances are the D/A converters in the monitors would be better quality than the D/A converters that your laptop soundcard or output would typically have.

Ken
www.blueberrybuddha.com - studio
www.kenleephotography.com - photography

 

[paulskirocks]

Yes, and chances are the D/A converters in the monitors would be better quality than the D/A converters that your laptop soundcard or output would typically have.

But, in my case, I use the UX2 or the POD 500HD as the sound card, so I need the analog connections...

 

[ken]

But, in my case, I use the UX2 or the POD 500HD as the sound card, so I need the analog connections...

Yeah, but we don't care about your stuff.

You could conceivably still use the USB connection, couldn't you?