MACKIE CR4-X Studio Monitors - Limited Edition Silver (Pair)

If you want excellent sound for you PC these are great speakers. Value for money, you are unlikely to get better sound for the price. Multiple options for connection to you PC and can be used for other sources. Can be connected via a USB preamp, useful if you are podcasting.

I purchased these for a studio set up and they are just the best, the silver colourway is so much cleaner than the standard green.If you are playing music and want to hear it properly this is the way!

I'll start with the pros;1) Wide frequency range with little colouration2) They don't distort at loud volumes (90+dB)3) Would quite happily go louder than you'd ever need for near field monitors4) Top 3 in their price range alongside offerings from M-Audio and Presonus5) All the standard connections/inputs you'd expect from a set of speakers6) They look really good in the black and silverNow the cons;1) They're no adjustment knobs on the back to tweak the EQ. I knew this before I bought them and didn't think much of it, but they would really benefit from it. They provide a rich, deep bass (which is good in some use cases), but for me, I would personally like to dial it back a bit as it can get a bit boomy, even with the speakers sitting 6 inches away from the wall. However, it does not seem to get "flubby" and "woofy" and any other silly word we use in the audio/music world to describe tones. The bass is still tight, and it's great if you're a musician and you're using a Helix/Kemper straight into an interface, as I find it's able to keep up with lower tunings (humbucker and drop A sounded tight and responsive), for general music listening or production work, they really would benefit from adjustment knobs. Of course, this is all circumstantial to my setup - if you were able to have them further away from a wall, or have bass traps in place, you might not have this issue at all!2) The hiss. Oh my god the hiss. I read about this before I bought them, and figured "how bad can it be?". The answer to that is, it's bad. When you get over 75dB (give or take), it's not noticeable to my ears, but for lower level listening, it's all you can hear. I've tried everything I can to alleviate the hiss, but to no avail. It doesn't seem to be based on interference, as I've tried the speakers in isolation, with nothing plugged into them at all, simply just turned them on via the dial on a table with no crossing power cables or anything like that, I'm guessing it's just the transformer in the speakers? This does, however, put you in a tricky spot where, in order to not hear the hiss, you need to have the speakers turned up a fair bit, which they can handle, but this isn't always possible!All in all, these are good speakers. They're great for listening to music or watching films, and they're good for mixing, if you don't rely solely on the speakers to do it (which I wouldn't recommend you do anyway, as you should always run your mix through a couple different outputs!). They look good, they're a great price (I paid a little over £100), they're as loud as you could ever want them to be, quite easily filling a room from their 4.5" drivers, but do not expect the best of the best. At the end of the day, they are budget, entry level monitors. They hold their own in their price range, but I think 3/5 (I'd lean more towards 3.5/5 if Amazon allowed) is a fair rating, considering the lack of adjustment for the EQ, and the constant hissing.

Seriously high quality pair of monitors considering the price. Perfect for a budget home studio or the causal listener looking for the next step up.The balance is spot on, no poor bass balance which can be common in speakers in this price range. Great build quality and they look smart on my desk.Would definitely recommend.

For the price, the sound quality of these speakers is amazing and will easily fill your room with sound even at half volume! Bass can struggle at extremely high volumes sometimes not that you'll ever have to turn it up that loud anyway.A lot of reviews mention something about a hissing sound however I don't get this with the speakers. I've used all the provided cables which have given me no issues.

Had a great time for the first day then the next day was panning sound left an right not working either one so I guess if u get a good batch great but for me

I had lowered my expectations based on previous "small studio monitors" from other vendors I have owned over the years. I use a pair of Yamaha HS7's for actual audio work but wanted a small set for my daily PC. Totally blown away by the range these have for the size. Unexpected lows, defined drops and clear basslines from a pair of 4's! The usual full range refinement from a Macie speaker too, clear crisp and not overly heavy in the midrange and very powerful overall. Impressed!

I replaced my previous generation CR4s with these. They look great and sound great - that's if you can get past the hissing noise. It's worth mentioning that the previous gen didn't have this problem.I have contacted Mackie directly to see if they will take my speakers and rectify the problem, seems to be some grounding issue.