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The Meyer Sound X-10s offer none of those niceties. If you are in the market for Wilson Audio, KEF, Sonus faber or JM Labs speakers - you are paying for and should expect the finish. With the increasing popularity of in-wall and hidden speaker applications, the Meyer Sound X-10 makes more and more sense. Many times Meyer Sound's smaller HD-1 speakers are placed on top of the mixing board for nearfield use.

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Most professional applications have the speakers built into cabinets or mounted off the floor. The X-10's can cut through a perf or woven screen like a hot knife through butter. While a hardcore audiophile end user could put X-10 on stands and just suck it up - where most consumer end users use Meyer Sound X-10's are for installations behind a perforated video screen. The physical looks of the Meyer Sound X-10s also freak out audiophiles and rightfully so.

#Meyer sound studio monitors full#

Play Stravinsky's Firebird Suite or Mahler's Tenth at full orchestral levels while listening in a Le Corbusier chair and make your own Maxell ad.

#Meyer sound studio monitors movie#

You can play car crash movie scenes in DTS Master Audio at 120 dB all day long without a hint of fatigue, fade or loss of resolution. Where many high end speakers shine best with string quartets and more modest musical compositions - the Meyer Sound X-10s thrive on complicated material. Blast a shotgun from a movie with an HD soundtrack via Blu-ray and you might reasonably check to see if you have been shot. I couldn't disagree with you that they are an odd shape and that they do not have industrial design by Jonathan Ive or Pininfarina, but if you cue up a good recording of a drum kit - there is no one speaker more capable of reproducing the explosive, resolute power of the instrument than the Meyer Sound X-10's. And they have better bass than nearly any consumer speaker money can buy. Sonically, the Meyer Sound X-10's kick the hell out of nearly every consumer speaker in the market in term of dynamics and power. Along with Meyer Sound X-10's you might use a Meyer Sound CP-10 analog parametric equalizer as well as one or two (or more) of their X800 subwoofers to create an entire speaker system - not that you 'need' more bass than 20 Hz, but 'need' at is a loosely defined term. Meyer Sound's SIM system allows acousticians arguably the best, most powerful tools to tune these speakers to your room. I too do not traditionally like a horn tweeter's stereotypical sound, but the Meyer Sound X-10's are different. On the high end the Meyer Sound X-10's use a horn tweeter which I urge you not to draw any conclusions on. The reported frequency response is 18Hz to about 20kHz.

#Meyer sound studio monitors driver#

They come with an insanely robust 15 inch driver that has an even more insane four inch excursion. They are powered with multiple amplifiers, with a total output of 1820 Watts per speaker.

The Meyer Sound X-10 is a squarish speaker (30H x 31W x 21.5D) designed primarily for studio use and priced starting at $30,000 a pair with options and modifications that can make them much more expensive. That is until you turn them on and listen. There is nothing sexy about Meyer Sound X-10s. These are speakers made by engineers for engineers. Meyer Sound doesn't market to the consumers one iota and Meyer Sound speakers are butt-ugly as compared to even the lowest grade finishes in the consumer market. A hatred for powered speakers is something that is likely not going to change for audiophiles, but it is changing for music lovers and people with dedicated home theaters - specifically large ones. Somehow the lure of changing electronics and cables is more appealing than having an engineer perfectly match power amplification to the unique needs of a speaker system.

#Meyer sound studio monitors series#

For starters, Meyer Sound's studio series of speakers are powered or 'active' which is a concept that inexplicably freaks audiophiles out. Meyer Sound has been in business for 30 years now, yet have practically zero presence in the world of consumer audio for a number of reasons.

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Who is Meyer Sound you ask? They are a Berkeley, California-based professional loudspeaker company known best for their ultra-high-end and ultra-powerful horn-loaded sound reinforcement speakers. Are the Wilson Alexandrias better than the JM Labs Grand Utopias or should you seek out an older pair of MartinLogan E2's? Well, if you ask a recording engineer or someone who owns a mastering lab what are the best speakers money can buy - you might get a very different answer than you are looking for. In the world of audiophila, when it comes to the absolute best speaker money can buy there is great debate.