DIY Studio Monitors - LBM MKII Kit Review 

Foam "wraps" from earbuds (and comply foam on iem) are famous for rolling off spikes in response especially at the higher end (allthou sacrificing a ton of higher end clarity). Especially on cheaper balanced armature iem, comply foam (or any foam earpiece) can literally transform them.

​@@andy_liga I have sometimes wondered about the effect of the foam on the higher frequencies, but the sound quality I'm getting from the earbuds with them on suits me perfectly fine, plus the without the foam they wouldn't stay in my ears, and they greatly help with the bass frequencies. I once tried those earbuds with rubber cones that grip into your ear & block out all external sound, really wasn't for me because being unable to hear traffic when cycling or walking was quite disorientating.

licensetodrive time to try some Koss KSC75. Things sound better than most consumer audio headphones

@@licensetodrive9930 to make an electronic comparison, foam acts like a resistor in a crossover circuit (having high impedance for high frequency and low impedance for the lows). Technically speaking you could use specific foam densities to tune headset (and on high end balanced armature iems that's actually the case)

@@exol511 or bigger brother the Koss Porta Pro, which has been my go-to headset for most cases in the past 10years

Thanks for sending them! Sorry for the delay. :)

Yeah, him and Naomi checked out the kickstarter versions.

@@MakersMuse What are the changes since the kickstarter do you know?

Yeah I was hoping the video would mention what's changed in the MKII version :) Also some kind of visual representation of their measured performance - e.g. frequency response vs the others shown - would have been nice for those of us watching the video on a phone or with some other less-than-ideal speakers. I don't know how practical that would be to do with any accuracy, though, and admittedly I'm not exactly in the target market for these things anyway, but it seems plausible that someone considering buying these wouldn't already have the best audio setup, as they could be looking at these as their first foray into studio monitors. Not to mention that RU-vid could be obliterating the audio comparison anyway! I don't know what RU-vid's audio compression is like; varying with video resolution, I imagine, but does it ever get all that high in quality?

The bit I don't understand is the increase in money spent buying speakers and the decimation of the number of places you can go and listen to them side by side.

sorry, it's A/B!

Nah I only use over-ear monitors sorry.

It can absolutely be done, and it’s possible to make it a better speaker with 3D printing, if one knows how to design it ;)

The problem is that cabinet material is important for a clean speaker sound. Plastic is not ideal in some ways such as stiffness and energy damping. However you can certianly make a pretty decent sounding 3D printed speaker nonetheless.

P.s. you will still need the custom electronics to run it all.

@@Audio_Simon That is what I was thinking. The difference between birch wood and plastic would be distinct in sound quality.

@@Skott62 as an acoustic engineer specialising in speaker design and I've been designing 3D printed hifi speakers and the best sounding settings has been 4 walls, 6 top, 6 bottom, 40% gyroid infill but my current masters degree disitation is on the acoustics of fdm prints And how the make up (ie infill percentage, infill type etc) affects the sound

Yeah, it's difficult to compete with raw air volume and a bigger driver - but they are HUGE compared. Don't have any other speakers in the house though :P

kitboga for President!

Listening to speakers through a shitty microphone in a room is kind of stupid anyway.

It gets the job done lol

Only printer atm is the Craftbot Flow XL, I've taken a break during 2020 from most reviews. Maybe if something particularly interesting or different comes out I'll test it.

The feature that would sell most people on these speakers is the ability to potentially hear recordings from artists in their intended, or 'rawest' form possible. You may have missed it (and I forget some of the details since I watched it last night), but I think he said the amplifier has a special equalizer which is technically flat (no extra bass, treble, etc.) but has potential to match whichever sounds are being input as closely as possible to the original recordings. Having listened to a lot of my favorite bands growing up on shitty headphones (barely being able to understand lyrics in some cases), that's a huge selling point for me. Edit: Plus, a lot of people may not have time to dive into the world of acoustic engineering and would like to have a DIY project with a satisfying end result. It may not be for everyone, but there are a lot of people this would heavily appeal to.

They're not competing with anything, because they're marketing to people who are easily influenced by myths. The BBC monitor is a myth, not a good speaker, but how many people have you met that heard them? BBC Plywood study from the 70s was obsoleted 10 or 15 years later by the Visaton study that makes MDF the material of choice. There is absolutely nothing wrong with Class D chips, if used well, the fingerpointing at their alleged high frequency misbehaviour is based on faulty measurements. People like to see big heatsinks, they seem reassuring to them. The boxy construction at the front is bad for diffraction, so the high end will have to be weird, peaky. People can assemble a kit and feel like they've accomplished something, while all the hard work was actually done for them. That being said they're probably actually pretty decent overall, and they are quite compact. They're just made to appeal to... hipsters basically. What recording engineer do you think would actually tolerate Bluetooth in his audio path? Most monitors are pretty unpleasant. There are many nice little HiFi speakers too that work surprisingly well in nearfield (and often remarkably badly freestanding), but availability is regional. As to actually pleasant and good monitors that you can get worldwide, check out Adam Audio ones.

The closest competitor is probably the tiny Genelec monitors. The LBM II have deeper bass and bluetooth.

His own Song. Soundcloud link is in his describtion

@@Wodpuncher001 right on thanks. I must have missed it.

First.

First!

I always say it to my mate, when he goes out with one of my exes.

I hate Adam Audio ads, I think i see a few almost every day

@@illford I never got one, but I'm from Portugal. Where you from?

@@ralmslb I've never seen one either, and i'm from Germany. But i heard them SO many times, many of my friends have them, i absolutely agree with your recommendation. They're if anything not very monitory, not very sharp and annoying, just pleasant.

@@SianaGearz Are you referring to the Adams?

Mixing on monitors the main thing I found was that I made my stuff too dynamic. Sounded great in the studio but on a TV or iPad it sounded thin and very quiet. Still... do you want to mix lifeless compressed sounding stuff so people with poor equipment think it sounds better? Depends what audience you aim at I guess.

Also, not having monitors at all is just as bad... end up with lots of crap in the mix you didn't even know was there.

the community cares..

YOU matter. =)

749th

@MarcoNoPolo thanks!

Pretentious.

@G Smith I see it

G Smith. Sir, you are lying.

Ole Sauffaus haha 😂, someone actually saw it

liar lol

Oh two people saw it 🤦‍♂️