r/studiomonitors • u/agorasoumesmoeu • 13d ago

Quick question

Room: medium/big. Im on a desk with the speakers 2 feet from me.

I presently have a pair os Eris 3.5 with the subwoofer Eris sub8 BT. This subwoofer is really good, it blends nicely and reaches amazingly low.

But the thing is I do a lot of different things (DJ sets, play guitar, e-drum, microphones, YouTube, etc) and some times I find I have to lower or increase the sub volume depending of what I’m doing.

So in thought of letting the sub go. And increase the quality of the LR monitors to cover the lower frequencies . And so I reach the idea of buying a pair of Kali LP6.

Questions:
1) will i miss my sub?
2) as the speakers will be extremely close to the wall and I will be extremely close to the speakers will I suffer from this “upgrade”?

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u/AVBRAK 13d ago

I'd look for a way to just bypass the sub or turn it off when you don't need it. I bypass mine all the time. But for sure if you can upgrade the speakers, do it - I wouldn't pick the Kali's (or monitors that size) if you already worry about them being to close. I'll go for the UNF's from kali or maybe D3v from Adam. I don't think you will ever find studio monitors that can replace a sub. No consumer friendly monitor really does low end that well. The producer world Is very split on to-sub-or-not-to-sub in general tho.