Am in the market for new studio monitors for home use. Want a really good listening experience with my axe, don’t need to critically assess mixes or anything. Just want something that does the axe justice in a not crazy price range that won’t give ear fatigue.
Comments like above are interesting. What is it about dynaudio sound?
Considering bm mkiiii, have also been considering Adam ax7 and focal solo 6be (2nd hand availble near me, new would be our ofbmy budget range)
If you have any way of trying of the different monitors out yourself definitely do so, as it's hardly a case of one set/brand being better than the others, more a personal and subjective thing.
The 3 monitors you mention are all very capable of sounding good and a person with good ears can mix on either of them.
It's been awhile since I hear either of the mentioned speakers, so I'm trying not to be too categorical here as I'm going from memory.
To me all the Dynaudios that I've tried have just always sounded very very musical, and they always strike a good balance of sounding musical and enjoyable, while still being revealing of the different parts in mix without giving me ear fatigue.
Adams Ax7 have a big following as well and have a unique ribbon tweeter, that gives great clarity and extension of the hi-end frequencies, but as revealing as that is (and the reason many loves them), thats why I personally really dislike them, they can be a good mixing tool but that ribbon tweeter as impressive as it is initially just grinds at my ears after a short while and gives me ear fatigue, and IMHO thus is not a good monitor to enjoy listening to music on, to me it's a mix monitor, and one that I wouldn't want to work on for very long stretches at a time.
In a completely league incl price wise the ATC's at least from SCM50A's and up are as revealing in the hi-end while sounding musical and not inducing ear fatigue, so that tells me that it's the ribbon tweeter in tha Adams and not the hi-end freq range that my ears dislike.
But as I said, that is really personal, and you and others might love the Adam ax7's sound.
No right or wrong just personal preference.
I tried some of the Focal smaller monitor ages ago and didn't take to them, but that was in a store and maybe placement ect. was to blame for that, and I've tried some of the Focal Twins in a friends home based hobby studio and they sounded really good in his room, so I'm guessing the Solos will too if set up correctly in a decent room.
Hope this is helpful for you.