Eris E8 2-Way Active Studio Monitors (Single)

I'm a Dj and was looking for bigger monitors for my home studio.I already own Presonus Eris E5's(which I recently used at a small house party mixing reggae dancehall and hip hop with no problems whatsoever. Many attendees commented on how good the music sounded.) Love those but wanted something with a fuller sound for a home practice studio. KRK Rokit E8's seem to be the choice for DJ's. But when I auditioned these next to the E8's, to my ears the Eris 8's were the hands down winners! Much richer and fuller sound. The bass was tighter and punchier while having the highs and mids right there! I even think my Eris E5's sound better than the Rokit 8's. Anyway, After purchasing the Eris 8's and bringing them home, my audition assessment was confirmed. These sound fantastic! My home studio now rocks! I also have the Presonus temblor T10's(fantastic sub). Paired with the Eris 8's you won't be disappointed. The build quality is excellent. These baby's are heavy and feel great just taking them out of the box. Hook up is a breeze with RCA, TRS and XLR inputs. I use XLR passed thru the subwoofer with the crossover set to 100. I'm still tinkering around with my final setting but these sound very good right out of the box. My Eris E5's sounded bright out of the box but broke in nicely after about 40hrs of use. Looking forward to seeing how these will progress. I'll follow up after about 100 hours or so. Lastly, love the cool blue light on the front of each monitor. My only minor gripe is I wish the power switch was in the front to make on/off transition easier instead of having to reach behind the speaker. Luckily, because of their placement it's not too much of a hassle.

I rarely write reviews but I just received these and hooked them up into my seating room and a scarlett solo and all I can say is WOW! As a 20 year audiophile I am very critical to detail and over the years I have found that studio monitors are more tailored to my taste as details is more inportant to me than smootheness. And for $250 for a pair and $100 for the solo DAC i prefer to listen to these over my 8k B&W and NAD system. I dont know how or why I just do. I just bought a second set for my PC. Also Id like to note that compared to my JBL 305 studio monitors these sound much better to my ears.

I'll admit it. When I first set them up I was pissed. These are going to be driven by my TV for the rest of their lives, and when I connected the RCA jack in the back to my TV they sounded like tinny crap for a studio monitor. Luckily, I had a ground loop that I couldn't fix with better cables, so I ran a super short RCA cable to an RCA to XLR transformer I had and sent them a balanced input (XLR) to cancel the ground loop. In a word, the difference was Whoa! I actually skimmed the manual before I set them up. The Rice Dressing recipe at the back looks interesting, and I'll probably make it later. More to the point - I didn't see a discussion on input impedance. I'm guessing the RCA impedance on the input is seriously mismatched to the TV, and as such all the bass gets lost in the signal. I'm willing to bet plenty of people have given these poor reviews and returned them while only connecting with the RCA input. I was ready too. I haven't run a spectrum on them, but my ears are pretty good. With a flat EQ they are bright above about 4k. Moving the high dial down 2 notches (-2dB??) levels them out to me. There's a weird kinda hump right at about 30Hz, where's I'd say they go positive about 3dB relative to the rest of the spectrum, and then a depression right after it from about 40Hz to about 55Hz probably about -3dB as well. This is very likely a side effect of the front facing bass port, that below the resonant frequency of the port acts constructively with the bass cone, and above it acts destructively, and then at higher frequencies becomes solid. I'm guessing they did that so that they can push down the flat through 3dB range (the 35Hz - 20kHz quote) to 35Hz like they did. I guess going above it works too, but it would have been nice to put in an dial to fix it. I mean, they've got EQ happening all over the place everywhere else, a dial or two more and boom - flat as a pancake. Before you think it's just the room they're in. I highly doubt that. My M-Audio BX8a's (40Hz - 20kHz) sound heavier than these and don't have a weird bulge and dip around there in the same room with very similar placement(s). One thing I did notice with the 'near field' thing was that it looks like they try and design placement into the setup. What I mean by that is when I had them hooked up with the RCA jacks and I laid on the floor about 5 ft away from them the bass filled in noticeably. It's possible that when they sit on a desk and are close to you the bulge and dip thing is less noticeable, but I haven't tested it. All in they are a great value for money. If they were the same price as a set of BX8a's would I buy the E8's instead? - absolutely not. Their tonal separation is very good, but not exceptional. They are clear and don't bend the sound image as you change the output levels (as after 3 hours of testing I'm noticing I've kept turning up the volume and not realizing it and now that it's off my ears are noticeably tired. It's a high quality problem.) The bass bulge and dip is annoying, but livable. They are excellent for home theater use, but I WOULDN'T use them for DAW work unless I could EQ out the bass thing somehow.

upgraded from original version m-audio bx8's recently to a pair of these eris e8's. really happy with them. studio monitors for anyone who makes music at home are just essential. i'm using these speakers for primarily analog / digital hardware synthesizers. moog voyager rme and my nord rack 2 sound AWESOME. the only real downside to these is listening to podcasts and bad quality sound sources will cause ear fatigue. 64kb mp3's are just brutal to listen to. i did notice a fair bit more depth to sound over the bx8's. but those were the first release, not sure how they compare to the modern variants.

Crisp, clear mids and highs with excellent clarity. A little thin on the low end by themselves but I added a Yamaha HS8 subwoofer and the combination is perfect for my project studio. The room is about 200 square feet and these are plenty loud. Also use the same setup for watching movies, youtube, etc. and am very happy with the purchase.

Not very loud, very small sweet spot, and when I try to push them even a little bit one of them pops super painfully loud. The concept is cool with the settings on the back and whatnot but I've had Behringer monitors that were louder, sounded better and are cheaper. Behringer suing Dave Smith is messed up so I won't support them either but that's a different story.

Save your money and buy Adam A7X speakers...they are much more but the quality is incredible. Buy these if you want to waste your money...

I am very impressed with these monitors i am using with Komplete audio 6 Usb interface, I dont have to move the main volume dial anymore then 30-40% they are very loud and clear with a good amount of bass Even with the room layout dial set to -4, They have a lot of settings on the back of the unit to suit your room setup. I was going to get the yamaha HS8's But due to room layout i needed a pair of monitors with a front bass port. I was abit shocked how big these are But sound wise i couldn't be happier. I would recommend this to anybody looking for budget monitors. cons - - I am sat close to these monitors and can hear a audible Hiss from the tweeter. i can also hear this when only the power is connected no other connection [This may be placement issue] -On delivery the boxes were slightly damaged, no damage to monitors - I found a oil mark like a finger mark on the side of one of the monitors (Not mine, out of box ), i can't get it off. -To note No UK power lead, they only come with an EU Lead. Im still rating 5 stars due to the sound quality and price!

Il termine eccellente equivale a qualità superiore alla media dei già ottimi monitor in circolazione. La dimensione di 8" del cono e la grandezza generale di questi monitor è ideale sia per chi ne fa, come me, un utilizzo professionale in studio di composizione e mastering, sia per chi ama ascoltare qualitativamente ogni genere musicale senza dover ricorrere a subwoofer dedicato. Posseggo anche le Genelec 8050b di gran lunga più costose e comunque sicuramente troppo da percepire quel qualcosa di superiore che solo orecchie e location ad uopo possono farti cogliere le differenze. Grazie a Presonus, grazie ad Amazon per prezzo e celerità.

Einfach klasse das Teil. Hatte vorher "einen" KRK Rokit 5 G2 welches ich als Dj zum Auflegen daheim verwendet habe und kurzzeitig völlig ausreichend war. Raum hat ca. 9m². Als Nahfeld völlig ausreichend aber... a) ich werde älter und muss immer lauter spielen b) musste ich den Mixer Xone 42 voll aufdrehen, alle Regler und das ist nicht gut c) nach 2m hat der Bassdruck nachgelassen und war quasi nicht mehr hörbar - bei Home Party zu schwach, auch ein zweiter hätte da nicht viel genutzt. Daher wollte ich was größeres und so habe ich nach etwas Nachforschung im Netz 2 Möglichkeiten für mich entdeckt... a) 6 oder 8 Zoll Woofer - wenn schon denn schon und gleich auf 8" gegangen b) Rokit 8 G3 oder Presonus Eris E8 - weil beide den Bassschlitz vorne haben und nicht hinten oder unten oder sonstwo, was für mich wichtig ist. Rokit habe ich ja bereits und weiß die sind eher Basslastig was mir entgegen kommt aber sie sind nicht so klar und so muss ich die höhen immer voll aufdrehen. Sie klingen aber im Vergleich deutlich dumpfer. Presonus sind ... wie soll ich sagen... neutraler und trotzdem haben sie einen Mega Druck, klare höhen und nicht so schwammig oder dumpf klingen wie die Rokits. Was soll ich sagen Presonus ist klasse und kann ich nur empfehlen. Wem die höhen zu viel sind kann es an den Einstellrädern hinten anpassen und gut ist. Zum Auflegen top und mit dem Ding kann ich 30m² locker beschallen - mit einer Box Top Teil, Top Preis, Top Anpassungsmöglichkeiten

La réponse est complètement neutre on entend tous les détails ! Je redécouvre pas mal de morceaux commerciaux et c'est là qu'on voit ceux qui ont été mixés proprement ! Si votre mix sonne correctement sur ces enceintes vous pouvez être pratiquement sûr que ça passera correctement partout ! L’évent en façade permet de positionner près du mur, et elles possède notamment un correcteur de réponse selon l'emplacement (voir photo du dos de l'enceinte) Selon votre emplacement et si vous avez les moyens "acoustiques" (isolation) je vous conseille d'y adjoindre un caisson afin de percevoir la gamme de fréquences complètes. Ce qui est assez simple car les Eris E8 permettent de sélectionner la fréquence de coupure 80 ou 100 Hz ! Sachez qu'elles ne disposent pas de potentiomètre de volume en façade, donc il vous faudra un potard sur votre carte son ou passer par une table ou même un potard dédié. N'hésitez pas à me poser des questions si vous voulez des infos supplémentaires. Et si vous avez trouvé mon commentaire utile, pensez à cliquer sur le bouton "Oui"

Exzellenter Nahfeld Monitor. Tolle Stereobreite, super Verarbeitung. Ging zurück, da er für meine Anwendung als Orgelmonitor bzw. Box einfach nicht gebaut ist. Aber als Studiomonitor super!