Old 04-23-2014, 11:35 AM   #1
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Default Sealed design monitors, who makes them??

I already have ported monitors and wish to pick up a pair of sealed monitors to A/B with. I have narrowed my search to three models

Unity Audio The Rock
Acoustic Energy’s AE22
Klein + Hummel’s O300

Only to find None of these are available anymore!
Does anyone have any suggestions? My budget right now is around $1200/pair
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Old 04-23-2014, 05:04 PM   #2
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Unity Audio upgraded their design (designated as The Rock mkII). They are available in the US from ZenPro audio (http://www.zenproaudio.com/). A pair costs about $2500. They are very good if you can afford them. Sealed cabinet designs are not common, and indeed,your list (plus Yamaha NS10s) rounds out the list of the most affordable models that I know of. This thread contains some discussion that may be of interest to you: http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=137498
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Old 04-24-2014, 01:45 AM   #3
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I already have ported monitors and wish to pick up a pair of sealed monitors to A/B with. I have narrowed my search to three models

Unity Audio The Rock
Acoustic Energy’s AE22
Klein + Hummel’s O300

Only to find None of these are available anymore!
Does anyone have any suggestions? My budget right now is around $1200/pair
K&H O300s were never in your budget, then. K&H is now owned by Neumann and they're offering the KH 310A, but one of these is about twice your budget and you probably want two.

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Old 04-24-2014, 11:08 AM   #4
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Yes, I finally found some comments detailing some prices. The problem with google is it will find obsolete things and even worse, music stores still keep the listing for "Historical Reasons" but without a price so I couldn't really see prices for this stuff.

Anyway, Thanks for the input as I know this topic gets beat to death alot especially in monitor requests for $500/per pair.

So it looks like the price is basically $1250 per monitor for my needs.
Going to give Unity Audio a try
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Old 04-24-2014, 12:49 PM   #5
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I recently bought a pair of UA The Rock IIs over the AE22s, the smaller Neumann KH 120s and a bunch of other quality monitors.

All I can say is that I liked the AE22s but you pretty much HAVE to use a sub with them.
The Rocks have an amazing amount of low end for a sealed box, although if you are doing EDM you would still want a sub.
Probably a different monitor to the Rocks as well!
The detail and stereo information is excellent. I had been using a pair of passive Tannoy system 6 NFM IIs with a Quad 405 for about ten years and the Rocks came as a real revelation.
I thought I was hearing what was going on with the Tannoys!
But as you said, the price is er somewhat higher than for the KH120s or the AEs.
Glad to say I got a great deal on mine from a local dealer.

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