Dynaudio Acoustics BM5A Active Nearfield Monitor

6.9 in. polypropylene woofer; 1.1 in. soft dome tweeter. 100 watts.

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"AMAZING PRODUCT"

Feature:
Has filters on the back that let you get the sound perfect for your situation.

Quality:
From the woofer materials to the casing, it's all top notch. No cheap metal screens here like in the m-Audio models.

Value:
They sound like they cost 5 times what they do.

Desirability:
Very chic, no awkward bright trim that clashes with your room design.

Sound:
Sound is incredible, I was worried about the bass response since it rolls off at 50hz but the low end is very very clean and transparent.

Ease of Use:
Plug and play. FYI: get Mogami gold XLR to TRS cables, virtually no degradation of sound.

Overall:
The best investment I've made in my studio so far. If you're trying to design a relatively inexpensive project studio I wouldn't trust anything else. As with anything, there is a rolloff curve with price to performance. If you spend half of what you spend on these, you will have a significantly worse sounding product, whereas if you spend 20 times what you spend on these, the improvement in sound quality will only be noticeable to the most distinguishing of engineers.

Submitted: 7/24/2007

Style of Music: Hip Hop, Electronica, Alternative

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* * * * * * * * * * 7 out of 10

"these are sure, not crystal clear!"

Feature:
no volume control, no grill, you wouldn't be taking these to a gig or putting them in a bag at any point without wrapping them up for about an hour first. that said the controls on the back a very high quality, some basic global and frequency selective boosts and cuts. check out the dimension's.

Quality:
the build quality is perfect really for what is there, considering the materials used, the size, extras, etc. just high-quality rock solid heavy ported cabinets with the exposed cones.

Value:
sorry I was amazed that something with tweeters like this can fetch so much money...where is this hype coming from? say number three lots of times! That is what they sound like! theriouthly!

Desirability:
who wants mine?

Sound:
beautiful.... bass and midrange...But tiring tweeter...all the music has a tendency to be washed in high frequencies rather than crystal clear...the wash of reverb hi's sounds twice as loud on these as on my genelec. whereas some of the mid range seems to be very slightly attenuated. synth flutes and throaty electronic warbles sometimes come across as whispy and relegated to the background and they were clearly mastered to be straight on a level with the rest of the sounds. altogether I am pretty surprised at the marks this is getting, I have good hearing in the upper ranges so that a lot of music sounds like it is poorly mastered by someone who can't hear the highs properly. I'm afraid I would class these as having bright and muddy washy upper ranges...to be honest, you might also say that most commercial speakers tend to have a very bright showy hi's , but this is not at all what you call a crystal tweeter. it's breathy wishy and radio-static-noisy. genelec sound like they have some kind of clean hi's filter compared to these, and yet on the genelec you can pick out all the details fine, and more precisely. maybe I have to blast some sound through these for a couple of weeks to break them in? I think everything is very clear and you can hear all the details, but some of the details are twice as loud as others-what is the point? the sennheiser HD 600 also rock compared to these IMHO... they are up about half as loud as the genelec, which are sound bombs.

Ease of Use:
perfectly normal except bigger bit precarious and unprotected

Support:
one-year warranty, haven't had to call, fairly good packaging, the dinky polystyrene frame inside the cardboard arrived a bit cracked all over it will be a case of keeping it together with sticky tape before it obliterates.

Overall:
I will replace it,

Submitted: 10/12/2007

Style of Music: ALL

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This high-performance monitor comes in a very compact design and it is extremely well suited for production environments where space is a concern. The BM 5A is well suited for music monitoring and mixing, broadcasting, OB vans, edit suites, playback suites, project studios and smaller post production facilities.

The small size in combination with the renowned Dynaudio Acoustics performance makes the BM 5A suitable for smaller 5.1 productions. When space is limited, the combination of the BM 5A with the BM 10S will deliver a full-blown 5.1 system with a remarkable performance, most often only known from larger setups.

The BM 5A monitor is a further development of the BM series and great effort has been made in extending the range with this small active monitor. Dynaudio Acoustics' engineers have redesigned and fine-tuned the BM 5A, according to the latest Dynaudio Acoustics technology.

The 2-way active system with a 175mm (6.9 in.) woofer and a 28 mm (1.1 in.) soft dome tweeter, builds on classical reference monitor technology. With the redesign of the exterior and the latest fine-tuning of the drivers, the BM 5A is sure to live up to even the most scrutinizing monitoring standards.

The BM 5A comes with a two times 50 watts amp package and a frequency response of 50 Hz - 21 kHz.

Technical Info

Model: BM5A

System: two-way active nearfield monitor

Frequency response (+/- 3 dB): 50 Hz - 21 kHz

Max SPL 1m, pair (IEC Short Term): 115 dB peak

Max SPL 2m, 5.1 (IEC Short Term): 116 dB peak

Input level for 85 dB SPL @1m (+4/-10): -16dBu RMS @ 0dB setting

Input level for max peak SPL (+4/-10): +9dBu Peak @ 0dB setting

Power consumption at idle: 10 W / Max: 90 W

Amplifier power:
Tweeter: 50 W

Woofer: 50 W

Resonance frequency: 55 Hz

Internal cabinet volume: 9 liters

Bass principle: bass reflex

Crossover frequencies: 1500 Hz

Crossover slope: 6 dB/oct

Tweeter: Esotec 28 mm/1.1 in. soft dome, rear chamber, Magnetic fluid. 4 mm die-cast aluminum front, Pure aluminum wire voice coil

Woofer: 175 mm/6.9 in., One-piece molded poly-prop cone, 75 mm/3 in. pure aluminum voice coil

Weight: 8.7 kg / 19.2 lbs

Dimensions (W x H x D): 186 x 320 x 320 mm / 7.3 in. x 12.5 in. x 12.5 in.

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Compact active monitors with renowned Dynaudio performance! Polypropylene 6.9" woofer and 1.1" soft-dome tweeter, biamplified with 50 watts each. Six dB crossover at 1500Hz. Frequency response of 50Hz-21kHz +/-3dB.

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