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Mackie MR8 2-Way Active Studio Monitor (1x8 in.)

Studio monitor with true Active design. 100 Watts LF/50 Watts HF Class A/B amp.

Overall User Ratings

Overall:
           9 out of 10
Features:
           9 out of 10
Quality:
           9 out of 10
Value:
           9 out of 10
I Want It:
           9 out of 10
Sound:
           9 out of 10
Ease of Use:
           9 out of 10
Support:
           9 out of 10
 
 

"Mackie Delivers"

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          10 out of 10
Quality:
          9 out of 10
Value:
          9 out of 10
I Want It:
          9 out of 10
Sound:
          9 out of 10
Support:
          10 out of 10
User: a customer from yahoo.com
Submitted: 7/14/2009
Style of Music: Hip Hop
Musical Experience: Audio Engineer/Producer/Artist
Location: Iowa City, IA, USA

 

 
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Feature:
The speaker has knobs on the back to control highs and lows, I haven't played with them much yet, but they could be useful during the mixing process.

Quality:
It is very astetically pleasing, and seems to be built solid. I'm very happy with the frequency response.

Value:
Worth the price, probably more.

Desirability:
sleek, all black with a light blue power light. A classy addition to my studio.

Sound:
I just got it, and heard Dr. Dre's Chronic 2001 in ways I never heard it before, I was using some old Technics and Bose home theatre speakers, and there is no comparison. Very good frequency response across all ranges, the only reason I gave it a 9 is that it does have some noticable feedback when you have signal going to them but the sound turned down all the way.

Ease of Use:
It's a simple monitor, and it does what a monitor is supposed to do. The HF and LF switches in the back are useful, but I don't think it's a feature I'll be using much.

Support:
I had to replace this product the first time zzounds.com sent it to me because I wasn't getting sound out of it, they asked me a few questions then emailed me a return UPS shipping label, they also shipped me a new one out before I shipped the old one, which was really nice, I only had to wait 3 days to get the replacement monitor!

Overall:
The hum concerns me a little, but I still have some tweaking to do with my studio setup, and overall the sound is beautiful.

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"step up to the BIG MACkie"

Overall:
          9 out of 10
Features:
          9 out of 10
Quality:
          9 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          9 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          10 out of 10
Support:
          10 out of 10
User: a customer from hotmail.com
Submitted: 1/19/2009
Style of Music: drum n bass, jungle, dubstep, hiphop
Musical Experience: producer
Location: montreal, qc, canada

 

 
Feature:
standard really. it would be nice front panel accessible power switches...

Quality:
well made, no defects really to note. upon breaking the seal and taking them out of the plastic foam wrap, i saw there was minor scuff on the rubber exterior of the woofers. on both of them. i'll take a wild guess and say this has to do with the manufacturing process and does not affect the sound what so ever. packaging was brilliant.

Value:
great price for great sound. comparable to monitors twice their price.

Desirability:
hey, i bought em right?

Sound:
crisp highs with tight bass. not quite comparable to the crispness of genelec's for example but for the price tag, i wouldn't complain... infact, just use the HF gain.

Ease of Use:
if you can't set this up without referring to the manual, you're a noob and probably don't have monitors yet.

Support:
can't really comment. never needed yet.

Overall:
i would really like easy to access power switches... in the front really.

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"Mackies at their best...."

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          9 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          10 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          10 out of 10
User: a customer from yahoo.com
Submitted: 2/12/2009
Style of Music: hip hop rap reggeaton r&b and sould
Musical Experience: Recording engineer, student
Location: Lawrence,MA Essex

 

 
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Feature:
got some setting on the back but didn't use em..

Quality:
heavy and feel well built like studio monitors should.

Value:
great for the price range..

Desirability:
black and slik desing...flashy

Sound:
the sound of these are amazing you can hear everything from the lows to high. sound quality is amazing and they are transparent and simply amazing...for these montiros to hit hard and great quality you need great cable (got the mogami cables) and that is everything for these speakerrs to perform at optimum precising.

Ease of Use:
plug n make sure they are plugged....

Overall:
will be satisfied with these monitors long time to come...use em for the studio and will use them when i go commercial..

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"BEST MONIOTRS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!EVER!!!!!!!!!"

Overall:
          9 out of 10
Features:
          9 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          9 out of 10
I Want It:
          9 out of 10
Sound:
          10 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          10 out of 10
Support:
          10 out of 10
User: a customer from aol.com
Submitted: 3/26/2008
Style of Music: hip hop
Musical Experience: RECORDER
Location: tampa,fl,us

 

 
Feature:
features are the same as krks

Quality:
bestttttttttt quality out there by far

Value:
a bit expensive

Desirability:
they look marvelous

Sound:
so far mackie snapped with these monitors they are somewhat like the hr series i consider these

Ease of Use:
easy plug and play

Support:
havent needed any but i bet a 10

Overall:
theyre good but i bet for more money you get better

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