Question on going from decent monitors to exceptional

[CPhoenix]

^I've been considering ARC as well.


Honestly.. my current room doesn't stand a chance acoustically. Which is why I dont think much about it's acoustics... yet. I'll try to take a picture tonight if I get a moment so you can see what I mean. There's no saving it... the only choice is to make sure my house has room for it. Since I moved out of my old townhouse i've been banished to a concrete-ish corner of the basement lol. No chance to get any type of accurate sounding room... unless it were something like the software you guys are recommending

[ObiK]

I think ARC would work in that situation. You measure the room according to where you will be mixing so that it tunes it to sound good in that area, not the whole room. Unless you measure the whole room and then it can tune the whole room for you.

[LDNsoundproduction]

I think monitors play a significant role in what you hear, as much as the acoustic environment. I have a home set up with Adam A5's and they're ok monitors, I get a fairly good picture of what's going on in my mix. But, when I take a mix to work where we have Dynaudio BM5A MK2's, I hear parts of the mix that my Adams just could not show me. I get so much more depth and clarity out of some of the sounds and I know If I had that quality of sound in my home set up, I could play around with the sounds more to bring out that extra depth.

[ObiK]

The thing that is hard about trusting someone elses opinion on monitors is they can sound vastly different in different acoustic environments. In a boomy room someone may say that they have great bass, while another may say they have no bass because they placed them in a null. The best thing to do is to make sure you are getting accurate playback in a tuned room and trying them yourself. Try a local music store, many will have a ton set up so you can compare them directly.