#VINTAGE AURATONE 5C PRO#
#VINTAGE AURATONE 5C PROFESSIONAL#

In an acoustically well-treated room they will unfold their sound virtues providing the user a valuable tool to approach musical realism. In my opinion, they provide a thumbnail, a concise but accurate 'summary' of the final outcome of a mixing while they can also be very useful during tracking.

#VINTAGE AURATONE 5C PROFESSIONAL#

I’ m using Sound Cubes as reference monitors along with passive Westelakes Lc 8.1, KRKs R6 and active Emes Cobalt in a professional recording studio. They are focused on the less spectacular and ostentatious goal of reproducing reality, the pure yet complex reality of that graph curve showing the variations of tonality in relation to time which we used to call music. Given all the above I would say that Auratone’s Sound Cubes are not the kind of monitors that enhance perception. Αnd as today's music goes back to prehistoric times, the controversy over whether monitor speakers should enhance perception or reproduce reality has erupted. “man gave names to all the animals”, he invented studio monitor speakers! While he was struggling to light a fire in his shack he was trying as well to compromise perception with reality. Needless to say we needed a compromise here. And if we let reality win, perception would tear us apart… That’s the reason why “unreal” recorded music always sounds very “different” from the “real” performed live. Where, and when, perception wins, reality loses. The main problem dealing with recorded music content is to bring as much as humanly possible is the perception close to reality. An illusion of frequency fullness, harmonic plentiness, correctness of intensity and so on. Recorded music always contradicts reality in the domain of perception.Īs a matter of fact, recorded music is somehow an illusion. While time elements are generally fairly distinctive, some others aren’t. Time, synchronicity, pauses, tonality, harmonic nuances, dynamic variations etc. Music is a territory of various elements. They are small, no problem finding space for them. In conclusion - great reference, they are very revealing, I get better mixes much faster. Low wattage solid state amp will produce square wave when cranked up and it will destroy the speaker more likely. It's even better to have higher powered amp - more clarity and cleaner sound.

#VINTAGE AURATONE 5C PRO#

And if you are pro user, you don't need to match the speaker and amp wattage. Any decent and pretty flat receiver kind of amp will do. But as i consulted with some wiser people: you don't really need a special amp for reference. It was hard to find low-wattage studio amp for them (20 Watts). They are passive speakers, just find the matching amp. Speakers are really small, no problem to find space for them on your desk (I've heard some use just one speaker for reference, some even don't place them apart for each other for stereo panning, just side by side). The ones that I'm still quite proud of, they sounded good on Auratones and the ones that were just OK, they were no good on Auratones?. But I backchecked the mixes that I've done in the past. I really can't imagine to have just these in the studio, they are narrowband speakers - 75 - 17000 Hz.

And most importantly, the price is almost the same! I switch monitors during mixing when I feel that I'm losing little focus or sense of balance. I was already looking for used ones on eBay, but you'll never really know how used up they are. They sound so 'bad' that they highlight the flaws in your mix instantly, exactly what you'll need! And they are small in size too, you'll find a place for them. I was looking for reference speakers and found that Auratone Cubes are back in production! They really are great reference listening for mixing.

Vintage auratone 5c