Привычный алгоритм работы нарушился уже минут через 20.
это особенность кубиков. к ним надо достаточно долго привыкать (от недели до месяца) и скорее всего придется менять алгоритм действий при сведении. они очень наглядно начинают показывать что Eq сильно крутить не надо, так как не поможет. в 90% случаях можно обойтись обрезными фильтрами, а если не помогает, то спасет только перепись. и с динамической обработкой все не так просто. сильно много крутить не надо, а вот эти и эти плюгины лучше сразу стереть, а эти приборы даже не включать, так как звук - ховно. и тд и тп. само собой надо какое то время, чтобы все это осознать, понять и выработать новый алгоритм действий. но в конечном итоге оно того стоит.
я был на месте человека, ищущего себе первые мониторы, прочитав ваш отзыв, скорее всего ПСМ сразу же вычеркнул бы из списка, да и о покупке кубиков тоже бы задумался
несмотря на то что кубики много покупают именно как первые мониторы (из-за невысокой цены), эти штуки очень профессиональные и полностью их оценить может тот, кто занимается звуком не первый десяток лет.
яготовлю почву для выхода на международный рынок и соответственно даю кубики на тест разным авторитетным буржуазным ребятам, кто может написать в последующем рецензию. вот реакция на недельное тестирования scp+sub одного англичанина, который в японии держит мастеринговую студию (подготовленная комната, наутилусы, стаксы и т.д.)
SCP+S SYSTEM
Recordings sound balanced across the frequency range, as expected. But as you know, the Cubes by themselves for me are perhaps a little thin in the bass, and mostly suited to mixing applications, as they reproduce the mid to high frequency ranges very honestly. But the sub completely changes this for me. It adds what I think are the essential lower registers in a very subtle and refined way, bolstering the fundamental energy of the music. The sub can't extend into the real low lows, as we know, but what it can do is just right for the intended applications. While I think the complete Cubes and Sub would also be best for mixing applications, I think it also has good potential to be used in some smaller mastering rooms and for mix/master checking. It obviously doesn't play loud enough without distortion for all scenarios, this is the domain of the far field monitoring systems, which your company also sells of course, but this is hardly necessary for the job the Cubes system attempts to perform. So all good there.
DETAIL
Warning, this section contains cliches and superlatives...
Records I'm familiar with sound like new recordings! Everyone has heard this one before. And to a certain extent, just listening to a different set of speakers than what you're used to can give this impression. But I have quite a lot of experience with this. I mean it doesn't happen that often, and I have had my ultra-resolving Stax system(s) now for over 10 years. So when it happens it is quite impressive. I am hearing things in recordings I've never heard, and I say this about albums I've listened to for 30 years. There is some fantastic detail around things like FX, reverbs, delays. It's easier to spot their relative differences, you can almost hear what parts of the song were recorded at different times because of being able to 'look in' to the recording and distinguish the different tonal qualities of each part of the mix. Same with vocals. Depth and imaging cues are easier to spot - around the particular mic used, the room it was recorded in, even with a mono mic channel some of these spacial cues are very nicely resolved and enhance the overall effect of the music greatly. I always like to find oddities in recordings, and I've spotted a couple more edits that I think are master tape splices, and numerous other things. It's always great to hear this level of detail. The Cubes resolving power is awesome.
SOUND
I'm trying to find words to characterise the sound signature I hear with the Cubes and Sub, mainly for myself when writing the article. At the moment I think I would say: Dry (I mean this in a very good way), Tight, Punchy, Controlled, Reference. By 'dry' I don't mean boring of course, but dry in the sense of a dry/wet signal. Meaning the system is not putting any colour of its own on the recording, you are getting what's on the recording presented in a refined and balanced, and sort of 'polite' way. All good. Effective range as far as I can tell is 40kHz-18kHz. Nothing much more is needed for effective music mixing, except possibly a true check down to 20Hz for clubs, and for film soundtrack post production, etc. In terms of EQing a source in mixing/mastering, I find it very easy and satisfying. The Cubes resolve to a degree that I can easily hear 0.5dB steps, and even so much as 0.1-0.2dB. Some people don't believe this, but... it's quite easy to spot with the right monitoring, as we know!
On balance, this system allows the best recordings to sound extremely exciting, engaging, while less well recorded/mixed/balanced music tends to sound mediocre and reveal it's flaws. Exactly the kind of magnifying glass we want.
SOUNDSTAGE / IMAGING
I think imaging is the SCP+Subs' main strength. It is the standout feature for me. Freq balance can of course be subtly tweaked to preference, but the work you've done aligning the phase here is something special and is really evident. With closed eyes, good speaker positioning and a reference recording, the speakers do in fact disappear. Not an easy feat in my experience. Imaging cues are precise and defined. With some more positioning tweaks like properly aligning the speaker drivers/wavefront, I'm sure I can get even more performance out of these.
HEIGHT INFORMATION
Great speakers allow you to perceive some phantom 'height' information. For example, on a Roger Waters track there is a mono bird recording being panned around the soundstage, randomly left and right. With the Cubes system I can pick up exactly where the panner was and how it was moved. It reproduces the recording with enough accuracy, and communicates enough spacial and localisation information to the listener that he's able to distinguish that this panner is operated by a human being. The way that the pan control is being moved is very human-like. The Cubes get this across. Amazing really. The panner also shows some amount of movement in an 'arc' across the stereo field. This may be imagined, the brain is a powerful thing, but I think it's more, in a similar way that binaural can reproduce height and depth information with only two mics, the Cubes are able to do this in a more limited but similarly effective way. This level of fidelity across the stereo field is hard to do. A lot of speaker systems will communicate enough information to the listener to reproduce an enjoyable recording, for sure. But there is that extra 10% that I think the SCP+Sub do resolve.