Need suggestion guys...I'm planning to buy one of these products: 

SPEAKERS - Yamaha HS50m                           HEADPHONES - Roland RH300
                 KRK RP5G2                                                             Beyerdynamics DT770 (ohm?)                                                  
                 Mackie MR5 MK2                                                     Audio Technica ATH M50               
                 M-Audio BX5 D2
                 Samson Resolv A5

Which one is good? If you have time, please write some good/bad reviews based on your experiences with these products. Thanks!

Eeyan

I'm an Audio-Technica fan all the way. Beyerdynamics are great, too. I own the AT M40's (six of them), and have recently used a set of Beyer cans. I use Mackie HR824's (the first ones) and love them. I know Mackie's quality has gone way down over the last few years, but the design spacs may still be great. KRK's are popular.

I'd get monitors first, unless your room acoustics aren't so great. Buy a set of the headphones as soon as you can for integrity checks and bass performance.  

If $200 is what you have, I would get the ATH-M50s. They are great for getting the low end close to right. You could also add in isone by Toneboosters to simulate a near field monitor. I would also prefer monitors, but I would save up and get something you won't want to replace. A good set of KRKs would be around $500...I would think.

If your shop has Sennheiser headphone, would check the 280 Pro. It's well in your budget, comfortable and well built.
If Beyerdynamic or Sennheiser sell you a in pro level moniitor headphones, that's what you get I think.

No idea about monitors, but everywhere I read your room and where you put monitors is as important as the quality of your set.

I have the D770 (80ohm version, which is probably the most common) 

I'm very happy with it, tight and crispy. I think it has a balanced sound, but I dont have too much to compare it with. But I like it over my fathers old Sennheiser HD545 (about the same as HD580).

I have the AT M50's and use them as my main headphones.  They are decent for the money.  Here is a review of several headphones that you might want to read: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan10/articles/studioheadphones.htm

I am considering getting the AKG K240's as a backup to my M50's, not for tracking, but for mixing, not in place of studio monitors, but just as another point of reference, a different point of reference.

I also have the bigger brother of the Yamaha HS50m--I have the HS80M.  I really like them.  With any studio or headphone remember that you must use them a lot to get to know their frequency bumps and valleys, so you can make the proper addjustments to your mix.

You might also consider a VRM for headphones as it givies several different modeled rooms and speakers so you can hear what your mix would sound like in different settings on different speakers--all with your studio headphones.  This would give you a different perspective on your mix.  

Finally, with any studio monitors it is important to have quality room correction.  You need to know your room, it's frequency bump and how to correct for it.  I use ARC 2.1 from IKMultimedia.  It is wonderful for correcting the bass bump that small bedroom or project studios often add to the sound in the room.  By correcting this, it help you get a mix that translates beyound your room to other settings, other rooms, other cars.....  All this still is contingent on the mixer still  listening and making careful corrections to the mix.  Learn your room, learn your monitors, learn your headphones so you make informed corrections.

Do look at that soundonsound review of headphones.  It might give you some clues about different options.

+1 ON SENNHEISER 280 PROS

Thanks for all the info guys. Really appreciated it. That's what i love bout here in cakewalk's forum. You are always here to help us. Thanks for all your time.

clintmartin


If $200 is what you have, I would get the ATH-M50s. They are great for getting the low end close to right. You could also add in isone by Toneboosters to simulate a near field monitor. I would also prefer monitors, but I would save up and get something you won't want to replace. A good set of KRKs would be around $500...I would think.

Thanks Clint. Looking for it now.;-)


eeyan

The question that nobody has asked is - what do you currently have by way pf phones/monitors?

Without that information it's real stab in the dark to suggest what to buy.