Tannoy Reveal 8Ds..... and the great active monitor debate

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Anyone using them?

Had a listen at a local store today and was impressed, but the listening environment was far from optimal...

They are a little pricey but Im not going to buy till I can get a pair of monitors I can rely on for a long time to come.

So I have narrowd down my list to the following:

Dynaudio BM6a:
(at the upper end of my spending limit, but they are just so damn good)

Tannoy Reveal 8D:
Interested but need a better listen, plus the ability to a/b between them and the other monitors im interested in.

Event ASP8:
Havent heard em yet but if the specs and reviews are anything to go by..

Mackie HR824:
Dont mind em. I would like to hear them side by side with the reveals.

Tapco S8:
The budget option. My flatmate has them and I know them pretty well now - besides the fact I would be saving over $1400 - they are great monitors for the money, but just dont rate against the others..

My TI will be here next week, so I figure while Im spending my money I may as well spend it all.

Also on the cards (hehe) is an RME PCI card - seriously considering the HDSP9632 - HC did you end up buying one of these? Either that or I will spend a little more and go for a multiface/PCI breakout package.

Also, my girlfriend wants to buy a pc so im going to sell her my athlon64 3000+ system (which i built a couple of months ago) and upgrade to a dualcore AMD system, so I will be posting and asking for help on that soon...

So, my powerbook and mc505 are both up for sale, and my system will be refined to the following in the next few weeks (yes im excited)

AMD Dual core based PC
RME HDSP 9632
TANNOY Reveal 8D monitors
Virus TI keyboard
Vestax PMC-50 mixer
1200's and a cdj500

so between the three of us there will be 3 sets of decent monitors to check mixes on hehe (flatmates own tapco s8 and tannoy reveal 6)

oh goody

any advice on the monitors much appreciated...

cheers

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