Event TR8 Tuned Reference Biamplified Active Studio Monitors (Pair)

by EVENT

Product Features

• Do your mixes suffer from buried vocals, overwhelming bass, screetchy guitars, or other sonic unpleasantries
• Switch to Event monitors - the monitors famous for their "mixes you can trust" sound.
• The TR series monitors are filled with time-tested Event technology
• Specifications LF Driver: magnetically shielded 8" mineral-filled polypropylene cone with 1-1/2" diameter high-temperature voice coil

Product Details

• Item Weight: 56.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 29 pounds
• ASIN: B0002D0I4I
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #92,930 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)

Product Description

Do your mixes suffer from buried vocals, overwhelming bass, screetchy guitars, or other sonic unpleasantries? No doubt your monitors simply aren't giving you an accurate picture of what's going on in your mix. How to make the problems go away? Switch to Event monitors - the monitors famous for their "mixes you can trust" sound. (Just ask the people who have won Grammy awards for mixes they've done on them.) These monitors are precision tuned to provide flat frequency response and uncolored sound, giving you a true sonic reference for mixing. So when you mix on a Tuned Reference monitor, you know your mixes will translate accurately to other playback systems. (Which is, after all, the whole point.) You might think that this level of mix precision comes at a high price. But thanks to a powerful new ultra-efficient amplifier (actually two of them, since these are biamplified systems), Event is able to bring you high definition, non-fatiguing monitoring at prices so low they're downright silly. But don't let the cost fool you: The TR series monitors are filled with time-tested Event technology, and designed by the same engineering team behind their full line of critically-acclaimed monitors. Specifications LF Driver: magnetically shielded 8" mineral-filled polypropylene cone with 1-1/2" diameter high-temperature voice coil and damped rubber surround HF Driver: magnetically shielded 25mm ferrofluid-cooled silk dome Frequency Response: 35Hz - 20kHz, ±3dB (-2d...

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great pair of monitors, October 19, 2007

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J. Bitz (Lincoln, NE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Event TR8 Tuned Reference Biamplified Active Studio Monitors (Pair)

I've had these monitors for over three years now, and produced two albums with them. They have a very flat response, and are great for home studio use. You need a decent size room to work with these however. If you have a bedroom studio in a corner somewhere these are not the monitors for you; I would recommend the smaller versions (TR5, TR6) instead. If you have the space, go for the 8" woofer, and you won't be let down.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Finally, mixing heaven, August 2, 2008

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Michael Carter "MCPhoto" (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Event TR8 Tuned Reference Biamplified Active Studio Monitors (Pair)

If you're shopping for studio monitors, certainly you've heard the advice to "learn your speakers". I spent the last decade mixing on a pair of Tannoy PBM 6.5 II's, and after all that time, getting the bass right was a trial and error process that involved burning a LOT of CDs and still left me with overwhelming, muddy bass and mixes that didn't translate well. I'm happy to report that those days are over - what I hear in my studio is translating incredibly well to home stereos, cars and iPods. These babies are affordable, accurate and the bass goes DEEP with no hype. I doubt there's any such thing as the "perfect" studio monitor, but I'm quite pleased.

Note that if you're going to get 8" monitors - and really use all that bass - you need to follow the basic (and widely available on line) practices of monitor placement and room tuning. Get a set of Auralex MoPad speaker isolation pads (under $40). If you've got a small room, look at monitors without rear bass ports. Get some bass traps in your front corners and the wall-to-ceiling juncture in front of you as a minimum (homemade traps with 4" of Owens Corning 703 work well - google it) and at least 2" of 703 (or some Auralex) at the reflection points on your side walls. You'll be a happy camper.