I use Mackey MR-5 speakers with a 10" Polk Audio 100w sub.

But here's the thing about those small, cheap speakers we all use.... None of them are going to be exactly flat across the spectrum. Especially the ported ones. The ports are there to try to compensate for some deficiency in the design but every time you make a gain in one direction, you introduce a loss in another. Read the first 3 chapters of Mike Senior's book Mixing Secrets For The Small Studio and it will explain it in better detail.


Another option you might want to look at is a software plug in program called ARC...Advanced Room Correction system. I use this.** It gets installed as a plug in on your system. Once it's in, you have to spend a little bit of time setting it up and letting it listen to your room. It sends calibrated noise to the speakers. You get a calibrated mic and place it around the room in numerous positions as the software tells you to do.... yep it tells you where to place the mic.... and after it samples the sound in several dozen positions, it calculates the room deficiencies and compensates by the audio is sends to your speaker. You remove it or shut it off for your export and the music is supposed to be a more accurate rendition for the real world.

** I have to recalibrate it to my studio here. It was calibrated in the former room but not in this one. I need to get the initiative to do this. Yeah.... I'm slack. Note: this software is pretty decent and lets you hear the music like it will be replayed factoring the room inaccuracies out of the equation. Maybe I'll do this recalibration in the coming week....... making myself a note now.

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