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Deborah & William Hillyard
Deborah & William Hillyard
Deborah & William Hillyard
Deborah & William Hillyard
Deborah & William Hillyard
Samson Resolv 50a
Active, near-field monitor speakers - Punchy and loud!  Totally unforgiving of bad source material, as a good monitor should be.  Never try and use these for hi-fi, especially with cheap CD players.  They show just how bad cheap CD players are.   Surprisingly, they sound quite good with high quality vinyl sources. 
Date from 1983!  Fitted with a mix of Audax units for the base & treble, and the ubiquitous, at the time, KEF B110 mid range unit.  They were really very good sounding music speakers.  I have modified the crossovers, damping material and enclosures and they now reveal much more about the source, which is great in the studio.  I now need to replace the high frequency units as one has failed.  Big & heavy - 40 inches high, and over 100 lbs each, and these were one of the smaller speakers in the Etude range!  Once repaired, I plan to use them as mid to far-field monitors. 
Etude MP3 Speakers
Sennheiser HD600
Great headphones - Impeccable sound; just a little polite sounding, but you can use them for hours with no discomfort.
Sony Pro headphones
Good for hearing into the mix for any grungy bits that need cleaning up.  Not good forgeneral listening as you can hear all the grungy bits that need cleaning up! 
Dell Desktop Computer
Much upgraded with more memory, USB2, new video card, extra hard drive, DVD recorder and Windows XP Pro.  It is over 9 years old (2010)!  I know I need to replace it, but I finally have everything running really smoothly so am reluctant to change
Sonar by Cakewalk - Vs 8.5
Recording and sequencing software.  Rock solid, intuitive and flexible.  I recently upgraded to the latest version 8.5 which has a host of new features.  However, the learning curve from my old version 4 is steep, and I am still trying to come to grips with how the new version works.  Sonar also hosts various software based synthesizers and effects processors.