What Are Your Main Monitors? Headphones or Speakers? Which Model?

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I’m curious how you’re monitoring your audio. What are your main monitors? Headphones or speakers? Which model?

My primary monitors are speakers — Neumann KH 120 A‘s.

My headphones, which I use about 10% of the time, are Sennheiser HD650‘s.

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4 responses to “What Are Your Main Monitors? Headphones or Speakers? Which Model?”

January 22, 2021

Mike Thomas

Mainly headphones for editing
Final mix is checked on various speakers including earbuds, PC C speakers and car audio

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January 22, 2021

Georg

In my studio: To avoid headphone fatigue I monitor with a pair of Adam T7V, for fine-tuning I use the Beyerdynamic DT 990 Pro (open back).

On the road: Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro (closed back)

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January 22, 2021

Allan Tépper

Panasonic RX-5085 boombox from the eighties, since it still works (except for the cassette player).

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July 2, 2021

Grayson

I use $7 earbuds off Amazon for monitoring. XD As a young person, it’s hard to get decent audio equipment, but I do my best with these.

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