Good comparison, but it is not only about speakers themself. Important is positioning in the room, Your studio room have to treated. The ALESIS M1 were more premium product in it's time...they still great.
LOL, Not much to be told from such a comparison like this. There are so many variables involved as to be kinda worthless. Were I you, I would run sweeps of each for starters as well as waterfall plots. I would also do a run on the Alesis with the ports plugged. I have a pair of the M1 Active MK2 speakers (ports plugged) and for what they are I like them. I use the built in audio output on my old HP Z800 computer to feed them so, to be honest, far from optimal! I am truly surprised that the M1 Actives you have are still working. I have had to repair mine twice now and mine are much newer, like 2011. Good luck and have fun.
It would have been nice if you used two mics for left and right to try and capture the stereo imaging better. It was very hard to really gauge the comparison between the direct raw, to the speakers, though the third in each triad (I assume the Alesis, as I'm totally blind), wins out at least from this simple example in my opinion.
Yes I agree with you, the next time I do one of these I’ll use two microphones. And yes you are correct, the Alesis is the third in each set, with the exception of the very last set (track 13) in which I play the source, Yamaha, Alesis, and then go back to the Yamaha. Thanks for the comment and suggestions!
Anyone else still rocking the Alesis M1s? 👀🎧🎶🎹🔊
Good comparison, but it is not only about speakers themself. Important is positioning in the room, Your studio room have to treated. The ALESIS M1 were more premium product in it's time...they still great.
100% and yes the M1 still sounds awesome!
LOL, Not much to be told from such a comparison like this. There are so many variables involved as to be kinda worthless. Were I you, I would run sweeps of each for starters as well as waterfall plots. I would also do a run on the Alesis with the ports plugged. I have a pair of the M1 Active MK2 speakers (ports plugged) and for what they are I like them. I use the built in audio output on my old HP Z800 computer to feed them so, to be honest, far from optimal! I am truly surprised that the M1 Actives you have are still working. I have had to repair mine twice now and mine are much newer, like 2011. Good luck and have fun.
Thanks for the input! This is definitely not my area of expertise but I’ll keep all this in mind if I do another one of these comparisons.
I found a pair on marketplace for £20 one was fine the other needed a bit of soldering and they work like new. Result
What a great deal!
It would have been nice if you used two mics for left and right to try and capture the stereo imaging better. It was very hard to really gauge the comparison between the direct raw, to the speakers, though the third in each triad (I assume the Alesis, as I'm totally blind), wins out at least from this simple example in my opinion.
Yes I agree with you, the next time I do one of these I’ll use two microphones. And yes you are correct, the Alesis is the third in each set, with the exception of the very last set (track 13) in which I play the source, Yamaha, Alesis, and then go back to the Yamaha. Thanks for the comment and suggestions!