Pair of Pyramid Monitors
Reviews
Smurphco Review of Pyramid Monitors
I have been using the Pyramids for several months, mixing and testing a variety of audio-for-video and audio-only projects on the compact monitors. They are being powered by a Crown D-50 power amp and are one of three speaker sets from which I can audition audio program material (the other two being Westlake LCW8.1s and Yamaha NS10s).
I have also compared the Pyramids directly with both Auratone cubes and a sampling of television speakers. But the best test of the relevancy of the Pyramids was burning a couple of heavily Pyramid-referenced mixes (i.e. I actively changed the mix depending on what I heard in the Pyramids, as opposed to simply taking note and incorporating certain measures) to a DVD for easy audition on a number of systems.
While the fidelity of the Pyramids, when taken on its own, is not impressive (in other words, these are not pint-sized replacements for hi-quality speakers), their universality, function and utility are worth the price of admission.
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Sound On Sound Review of Pyramid Monitors
I found these little speakers to perform remarkably well in their intended role. It is worth remembering that on first auditioning these speakers won't impress at all - but they aren't meant to. Check a few of your own mixes with them, though, and their raison d'être will quickly become obvious. They seem able to handle realistic mixing levels without strain, image reasonably well, and the intentionally 'middly' frequency response certainly makes this critical part of the spectrum very transparent and open. There is, naturally enough, no bass response to speak of, but this also helps the mix engineer to make sure the equalisation of bass instruments, and their relative balance, is optimal. In comparison with NS10s, the Pyramids seem very bass light, but I don't see this as a particular disadvantage.
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