PAR Daily E-Reviewsletter featuring Dynaudio Professional, Peavey & Shure

New Products - May 4, 2012 Dynaudio Professional M3XE Studio Monitors » Peavey IPR DSP Power Amplifiers » Shure BRH31M, BRH440M and BRH441M Broadcast Headsets » Today's Product Review Session Trial: Small Studio Monitor/Subwoofer Systems Featuring Dynaudio Acoustics BM5A & BM9S, Focal Professional CMS50 & Sub6, Genelec 8020A & 7050B, Klein + Hummel O110 & O810, and KRK Systems VXT4 & KRK10S By Rob Tavaglione For this, Pro Audio Review's third installment in our Session Trial review series, we examine and employ five active monitoring systems — each with six-inch or smaller woofers and a complimentary subwoofer — in a gamut of mixing and listening tests to find substantive differences in performance for one man’s real world, professional application. Already proven performers, each of these five contenders were previously reviewed and notably endorsed by PAR reviewers. In ‘phase one’ of our most set-up intensive Session Trial to date, each small monitor/subwoofer system was set up for evaluation in my rather large control room room (approximately 22’ deep X 19’ wide, acoustically treated via absorption, diffusion, and bass trapping), within a five-foot equilateral triangle from my listening position at exactly ear height, with Auralex MoPAD Monitor Isolation Pads to provide decoupling from the ‘meter bridge’ shelf, part of a Sound Construction & Supply Custom Console. More » Today's Blog Book Review: A Story of Six Strings by Stephen Arnold By Clive Young The visual parade of Arnold's guitars, lavishly photographed by Chris Fritchie, provides an opportunity to not only see and appreciate—and perhaps fetishize—the tools behind music we hear every day, but to also see them taken out of the common contexts of the stage and studio. By seeing the instruments, always photographed unplayed and monolithic within the surroundings of everyday life, the ubiquity of the music they've created comes full circle as we see the tools themselves become part of the environment, providing a new way to look at these creative vessels, and perhaps a different glimpse of creativity itself. More »

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