Studio Monitors (mainly using headphones)

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Monitor(s) for very small space

Hi there - I make my music (passionate hobbiest) in about a 4 square-foot corner of my living room. I use headphones when playing/recording. When I get to mastering, I’m at the laptop in the middle my living room listening to decent-sized speakers. Problem is, as I get older (hit 40 this year), ear fatigue gets worse. I need to give my ears a break from the headphones more often. So I’m looking for rather small but not awful monitors. They won’t be my main mixing tools, but I want them to be g…

Tiny, active near-field monitors for a small bedroom studio space

Hey all- My 13 year old son has started to dork around in Logic over the summer break and I’ve cobbled together a little setup for him to learn on. The only thing I don’t have is a simple, small set of near-field monitors. If I had active computer speakers I’d just use those, but since I don’t I figured I might as well take a look at the current crop of small active monitors. I just looked on Thomann and they seem to have developed a lot in the last decade. I’m curious if anyone has recommenda…

Moving into a smaller space (monitor advice)

Hi all, I’m moving into a significantly smaller space. The space is 237cm wide and 207cm deep. There is a window on the 237 side and on the other 237 side there is a door. When spring approaches I’ll build some DIY treatment but for now I’m more concerned about my monitors. I currently own a pair of Adam A7x’s and I’ve already tried them out here. Sadly they are a bit overpowered for such a small room and I get fatigued quite quickly. Also I like setting these up wide and I usually sit pretty…